Los Jardines islands
The Los Jardines islands (Spanish, "the gardens") are two phantom islands located east of what are now the Marshall Islands, supposedly visited by the Spanish explorers Alvaro de Saavedra in 1528 and by Ruy López de Villalobos in 1542.[1]
See also
- 1891 German map showing Los Jardines northeast of the Marianas, northwest of the Marshalls
- 1899 British map showing same
- 1932 German map showing same
References
- ↑ Stommel, Henry (1984). Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. pp. 10–15. ISBN 0-7748-0210-3.
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