Originally posted by Apocalyptic
Thanks. I'm thinking it was above water at some point...maybe a very shallow atoll that is now just a reef...hence the dark shadow effect in the older portion of the image. This is part of the great barrier reef I think so its possible. I just don't think a simple "error" occurred. Just strange why its painted out so poorly.

Two quick comments...

This is NOT part of the Great Barrier Reef which rises from the continental shelf of Australia and is about 800 nm west of the purported location of Sandy Island, and the recent survey by the Australian science team measured the water depth in that location as 1,400 m (4,600 feet). There would have had to have been a massive collapse of the underwater structure that would have surely caused a massive earthquake and tsunami in New Caledonia and set off every seismic detector on Earth.

That being said, your split overhead of Google maps vs. Earth is very intriguing. We definitely have a mystery here whether or not a mistake was made on a nautical chart somewhere back when...

I've been following this thread and it's very interesting. I'm a big fan of LOST so that was the first thing that came to my mind as well.

But there have been stories in folklore for years of islands that only appear certain times. There's the island of Hy-Brasil that only appears out of the fog every 7 years. There are a few others. It's a very interesting topic.

But I love seeing all the explanations.

Sandy island. Sandy Hook. Hurricane Sandy. It has to be the government that made the island disappear.

Originally posted by Gattacanian
Sandy island. Sandy Hook. Hurricane Sandy. It has to be the government that made the island disappear.

Star for you for linking 3 in 1 month !

Look up Narcondum Island in the Andaman Islands off Burma. There is a volcano with photos yet Google Earth shows no such island.

I don't mean there's a conspiracy (because being ATS you never knwo what people think), I just mean Google earth is not complete

Originally posted by Gattacanian
Sandy island. Sandy Hook. Hurricane Sandy. It has to be the government that made the island disappear.

I was wondering about that myself. Look at how web search engines use the auto complete option. The idea of keeping the information hidden in plane sight with recent disasters is ludicrous.

Then again, anything could be possible.

The coincidence is pretty funny.