An onetime legend , date back to at least 1325 , describes an island off the West coast of Ireland called Hy - Brasil . Like Atlantis , the island has been unacceptable to locate . Unlike Atlantis , there are some middling late account ( confessedly , chiefly of the " somewhat dubious " variety ) of such an island by experienced explorers , plus nautical charts over C of years demonstrate Hy - Brasil ’s purported position .
The first mapping depicting Hy - Brasil was created in 1325 , then under the name " Brasil " . It would change name over the long time – include the monikers Brasil , Brazil , Breasil , Hy - Brasil , or O’Brasil – but the challenging thing about subsequent mapping was how they could n’t check on a position . The island moved around the coast of Ireland fairly unpredictably over the centuries , once even bolt down up just off the slide of North America .
account of the island are foreign still , ranging from sightings of an island shroud by mist to tales of an island realm populate by ancient people . One bill from 1629tells how " several seamen have discovered it att sea , as they have sailed on the western slide of Ireland " .
Of these supposed sightings , one man named " Captain Rich " claim to have get along " so neere that he light upon a harbor " , at which point he begin to sweep towards it . In a reverse - Desmond - from - Lost , Captain Rich keep to sail at the island as a mist came in , but was never able-bodied to make it to shore . The story , even as one of the most grounded of the island , is laden with folklore . It end with the finale it " may be those famous enchanter now inhabitt there , and by their magick accomplishment hold in their iland from forraigners . "
Another account – a letter sent by a humanity in Derry to a booster in England – describe the voyage of one Captain John Nisbet , who find him and his gang stranded on Hy - Brasil and went out to search . On the first day , they found the island to contain an old palace and yet was completely uninhabited , but after pop off to kip that night they woke up and " saw a very ancient grave valet , and ten men following him bareheaded ( as if his handmaiden ) coming towards the shore , where the ship lie " .
spend all mysterious pretense , the old man throw a feast where he get to tell the gang that " the island was call O’Brazile ; that his ancestors were sometimes princes of it , telling them also , that he and several somebody of quality , by the malicious diabolical artistry of a great Negromancer , had been tyrannically shut up in the castle they knockt at yesterday " .
Thankfully , the sovereignty of the necromancer was veer short by the sailor ’s unbelievably credible visit . The curse was bust , and others would be capable to see the island now . This did n’t really pan out , as though there were other accounts of the island , its twenty-four hour period as being considered anything other than a myth were numbered . A map made in 1872 would be its last appearance .
There credibly was no island to start with . – phantom islands have been come along on maps long before , and even after this . These are land masses that appear on maps despite having in all likelihood never exist in any physical sense .
One hump as Sandy Island survived on mapping from 1774 all the agency up to Google Earth . It was at last move out after a group of scientists sailed through the alleged island , anddeclared it non - real , that it was take out from Google Maps and Earth .
Phantom islands can be the result of myth being incorporate by mapmakers ( even Atlantis made its way onto tangible single-valued function , come out on onein 1664 ) , mistakes made by explorers ( such asPepys Island , create in 1683 when a captain made figuring error and mistake one of the Falkland island for a new one ) and mapmakers place advisedly false islands onto their maps so they would know if their work had been copied . Some could even be the result of sailors encountering illusions , such as the one which bring on this"hovering ship " back in 2021 .
In the subject of Hy - Brasil , there are for certain reason to suspect it is chiefly mythology that birthed the island and kept the fable animated with the helper of a few definitive but faulty maps . Or , as was suggested in the 1880s , " Brazil might be the present Porcupine Bank " having sunk and move around into a coral Witwatersrand . Probably – unless you ’re a big believer in secret islands and ancient condemnation by necromancers – the former .
