Sandy Island
Sandy Island is a phantom island that was charted for over a century as being located near the French territory of New Caledonia between the Chesterfield Islands and Nereus Reef in the eastern Coral Sea.- Type: Island
- Description: phantom island in New Caledonia
- Also known as: “Illa de Sandy”, “Isla Arenosa”, “Sable”, “Sable Island”, “Sandy Isalnd”, “Sandy Island (a phantom island)”, “Sandy Island (spookeiland)”, “Sandy Island, New Caledonia”, “Сэнди”, “אי החולות”, “איל דה סאבל”, and “セーブル島”
Sandy Island
- Categories: phantom island and landform
- Location: New Caledonia, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-19.25° or 19° 15′ south
Longitude
159.93333° or 159° 56′ east
Elevation
-1,400 metres (-4,593 feet)
Open location code
5RGXQW2M+28
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sandy Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ساندي”
- Armenian: “Սաբլ”
- Bengali: “স্যান্ডি দ্বীপ”
- Catalan: “illa de Sandy”
- Cebuano: “Sandy Island”
- Chinese: “珊迪島”
- Croatian: “Sandy Island”
- Czech: “Sandy Island”
- Danish: “Île de Sable”
- Dutch: “Sandy Island”
- Esperanto: “Sabloinsulo”
- Finnish: “Sandy Island”
- French: “île de Sable”
- French: “Île de Sable”
- German: “Île de Sable”
- Greek: “Νήσος Σάντυ, Νέα Καληδονία”
- Greek: “Νήσος Σάντυ”
- Hebrew: “אי סנדי”
- Hebrew: “סנדי”
- Hungarian: “Sandy Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sandy, Kaledonia Baru”
- Indonesian: “pulau sandy”
- Italian: “Sandy Island”
- Japanese: “サンディ島”
- Korean: “사블섬”
- Malay: “Pulau Sandy”
- Polish: “Sandy Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Sandy”
- Romanian: “Insula Sandy, Noua Caledonie”
- Romanian: “Insula Sandy”
- Russian: “Сабл”
- Russian: “Сабль”
- Spanish: “Isla Sandy”
- Swedish: “Sandy Island, Nya Kaledonien”
- Swedish: “Sandy Island”
- Swiss German: “Sandy Island”
- Tamil: “சான்டி தீவு”
- Turkish: “Sandy Adası, Yeni Kaledonya”
- Turkish: “Sandy Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Сенді (фантомний острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Сенді”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Sable”
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