Google and National Geographic quickly removed Sandy Island from all of their maps. Seton, meanwhile, dug into the mystery and has now published an obituary of Sandy Island in EOS, the journal of ...

The map shows an island the same size and shape in Sandy Island’s location. The chart notes that the island was reported in 1876 by a whaling ship named Velocity .

There’s this wild mystery about an island called Sandy Island—it doesn’t exist, but it keeps showing up on maps. For years, people thought it was real because early explorers reported it, and ...

The story of Sandy Island begins on September 15, 1774, when Captain James Cook charted a "Sandy I." in the eastern Coral Sea, ... 2012, Google Maps removed the island from its service.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- History is back on display at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. Precious treasures were returned Wednesday after they were displaced by Superstorm Sandy. As ...

Superstorm Sandy started as a ripple on Oct. 11, 2012, when a wave of low pressure in the easterly trades left the west coast of Africa and moved west over the Atlantic toward the Caribbean.