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lemmepickanameffs t1_j0o1mgy wrote

So it's the opposite of New Zealand, despite actually existing it's ignored by official maps 🤔🙄

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r1ch999999 t1_j0o9gss wrote

Didn’t the map makers used to add fake islands in order to check for forgeries?

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jamescookenotthatone t1_j0p3vyr wrote

Yeah but Cook was an explorer, he wasn't looking to make map money on the backend.

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Khontis t1_j0s0np4 wrote

Yea. They were called "paper towns"

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walkingtalkingdread t1_j0o3uen wrote

wouldn’t something like Google Earth have confirmed that much earlier? what the hell did that location look like from a satellite if no one bothered to say “wait, there’s no island here.”

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tvieno t1_j0o6hca wrote

No one bothered to check.

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GiantRiverSquid t1_j0oh5mp wrote

I actually got a random video for "top 5 censored Google maps locations", Sandy Island was one. I'm guessing OP watched the same video, because it also "proves that probably" it was a pumice Island and captain Cook and some random whaling ship a hundred years later were wrong

And I can't be bothered to look into any of the flimsy claims made, because I'm not a sailor and I just don't care.

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spider__ t1_j0p6gx7 wrote

Islands can sink under the waves, satellites showed that there was nothing there now, but the research was done showed that nothing was ever there.

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Sdog1981 t1_j0o9t3y wrote

Sounds like Australia did not get the memo.

“It was removed from French hydrographic charts in 1974.”

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ypsm t1_j0op4ud wrote

its’ is not a word. The word you were looking for is its.

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FairCheek6825 t1_j0oji02 wrote

Yeah Cook also stated that there was no inhabitants living in Australia!

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Aethelredditor t1_j0p3o4l wrote

Even after shooting at them?

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-Sir_Bearington- t1_j0pf7uo wrote

Indigenous Australians were considered 'fauna' up until about the 70's or so, not people.

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_Meece_ t1_j0rr4ml wrote

This is a myth, they weren't considered anything. They were treated as if they didn't exist.

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Fartmatic t1_j0szli3 wrote

Both of these posts are untrue, the fauna thing is a myth but they wen't simply treated as if they didn't exist either. Of course in many parts of Australia they didn't have equal voting rights until more modern times (in half the states they've had a constitutional right to vote for over 170 years) but there was certainly always government policy at federal and state levels recognising them with ministers responsible for their welfare interests and Aboriginal issues.

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Gabi_Social t1_j0p5d4q wrote

Everyone from r/lost is just nodding knowingly at each other right now.

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cyberxstrm t1_j0pimss wrote

He looks pretty good at RB for the Bills also

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TheEcuadorJerkfish t1_j0pt0pa wrote

Just glancing at this, “charts” registered in my brain as “sharts” and I was intrigued.

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