Buss Island

The island Buss is a phantom island which held from the late 16th century to the 19th century on maps of the Atlantic. She was allegedly discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 of seafarers on board the Büse (English Buss ), the name of the type of ship, " Emmanuel " were, hence their name.

For three centuries, this island was then plotted on maps between Ireland and another phantom island, Frisland, to about 57 ° north latitude. Probably Frobisher has held the southern tip of Greenland for a new island or the island Frisland like others before and after him, and so came to wrong estimates its position. Misjudgements of the currents in this area can easily lead to incorrect calculations of distances and positions. Maybe he has also held optical effects in the vicinity of Greenland for the country. However speaks the accuracy with which the coastal outlines of Buss were listed on the cards and the tenacity with which they centuries remained on the cards that the island is a real model (namely, South Greenland ) had and even after Frobisher sailors this South Greenland Buss error documents.

James Hall reported in 1606 to have seen the island, a certain Thomas Shepard claimed in 1671 traveled to the island and explored their outlines to have Zachariah Gillam 1668th. 1675 gave the English king Buss of the Hudson's Bay Company as property, 1676 an unsuccessful expedition sent out to find the island, whereupon the Company lost interest. With increasing traffic on this sea area the doubts about the existence of the island grew. 1745 came the theory that the island Buss although once present but now " lost " was. This theory gained some credence, since in the relevant area of the sea is relatively flat. Until the 19th century Buss lived on the Atlantic and world map in two forms: as a island Buss or " area of the sunken island Buss ". Keith Johnston's Atlas of 1856 was the last on which the island was listed.