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Lost Islands with themes ranging from logicHundreds of islands that once appeared on nautical charts and general atlases are now known to have vanished or never even existed. How were they detected in the first place? Henry Stommel, an oceanographer and senior scientist at Massachusetts' Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, chronicles his fascinating research in documenting the false discoveries of these phantom islands. British and American Hydrographic Offices compiled lists for navigators of