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I found it, they moved it up the block, no worries.
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I love the theory that the CIA removed it to deny Mexico the drilling rights.
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Could the US destroy a small island? Almost certainly. Could they do so without anyone noticing? I’m less convinced.
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Thomas Guides had fake information on their maps for just such copyright reasons as the earlier map makers. My favorite non-existent boulevard was the tiny Bat Stew Terrace…
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It’s the Mexican Brigadoon.
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Oddly enough, this is such a strange topic there happens to be a book about things like this, which serendipitously I happen to have on my bookshelf.
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“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”
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See also Sandy Island in the Pacific.
I have a feeling that the OS have used the house I currently live in as a ‘trap street’.
It shows as having a large extension in the back garden (which is hidden from the street), but I’m certain that there was never a building there.
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Let’s rephrase that as “without leaving witnesses”…
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I’m there, right … … nah - just kidding. I was there last week.
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Has anybody checked with Hank Johnson?
I thought this was already explained by Baron Munchausen!
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I recall hearing about a volcanic island that appeared off the coast of Sicily in the mid-1800’s. Italy, France, Spain and the U.K. all scrambled to claim it, but it was made out very brittle volcanic stone like pumice, and within a year it disappeared beneath the waves.
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Yup! Trap streets and trap towns are very much still a thing in modern cartography. They’re even more prevalent nowadays in digital map data products, because copying is a lot easier than it used to be.
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