Pepys Island

As Pepys Iceland a phantom island was called that was supposed to be about 230 miles north of the Falkland Islands. It was first mentioned in 1684 by Ambrose Cowley, who had probably given the coordinates of the Falkland Islands in error. He named the island after Samuel Pepys, who was then Secretary of the Admiralty, who is primarily known as a diarist of the English Restoration period today. Other participants of the trip Cowley, such as William Dampier, the island is not mentioned. The name was also applied to South Georgia.

In the 18th century attempted to locate the island several expeditions. Some, including John Byron, the island continued simultaneously with the Falkland Islands, but others, such as Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Lord Anson and James Cook continued into the 1780s to look for them, to Cowley's original diary rediscovered and noticed his error was.

• Phantom island