Sandy Island

Sandy Island is a phantom island that was charted for over a century as being located near the French territory of between the and Nereus Reef in the eastern Coral Sea.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: phantom island in New Caledonia
  • Also known as: Sable Island”, “Sandy Isalnd”, “Sandy Island (a phantom island)”, and “Sandy Island, New Caledonia

Sandy Island

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
Geo­Names ID
2138445
Wiki­data ID
Q80326
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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
  • Catalan: Illa de Sandy
  • Cebuano: Sandy Island
  • Chinese: 珊迪島
  • Croatian: Sandy Island
  • Czech: Sandy Island
  • Danish: Île de Sable
  • Danish: Sandy Island
  • Dutch: Sandy Island (spookeiland)
  • Dutch: Sandy Island
  • Esperanto: Sabloinsulo
  • Finnish: Sandy Island
  • French: île de Sable
  • French: Île de Sable
  • French: Sandy Island
  • German: Île de Sable
  • German: Sable
  • German: Sandy Island
  • Greek: Νήσος Σάντυ, Νέα Καληδονία
  • Greek: Νήσος Σάντυ
  • Hebrew: אי החולות
  • Hebrew: אי סנדי
  • Hebrew: איל דה סאבל
  • Hebrew: סנדי
  • Hungarian: Sandy Island
  • Indonesian: Pulau Sandy, Kaledonia Baru
  • Indonesian: pulau sandy
  • Italian: Sandy Island
  • Japanese: サンディ島
  • Japanese: セーブル島
  • Korean: 사블섬
  • Malay: Pulau Sandy
  • Polish: Sandy Island
  • Portuguese: Ilha Sandy
  • Romanian: Insula Sandy, Noua Caledonie
  • Romanian: Insula Sandy
  • Russian: Сабл
  • Russian: Сабль
  • Russian: Сэнди
  • Spanish: Île de Sable
  • Spanish: Isla Arenosa
  • Spanish: Isla Sandy
  • Swedish: Sandy Island, Nya Kaledonien
  • Swedish: Sandy Island
  • Swiss German: Sandy Island
  • Tamil: சான்டி தீவு
  • Tosk Albanian: Sandy Island
  • Turkish: Sandy Adası, Yeni Kaledonya
  • Turkish: Sandy Adası
  • Ukrainian: Сенді (фантомний острів)
  • Ukrainian: Сенді
  • Vietnamese: Đảo Sable

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