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

I'm not saying it was R'lyeh, but...

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.”

No one bothered to check.

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

Sounds like Australia did not get the memo.

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

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.

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

r/mapswithoutnewzealand

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

It was Hunter Biden’s laptop

r/mapswithsandyisland

Some real Hermione energy there.

Even after shooting at them?

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

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

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.

Tasmania would like a word. If we ever find it

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Yet the title was still perfectly understandable

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

He looks pretty good at RB for the Bills also

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

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

Yea. They were called "paper towns"

Now, that's funny!

I was curious so I checked, you're quite correct u/_Meece_ , seems like it's a myth that's been perpetuated by many people, - even indigenous peoples themselves.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650

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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.