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.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Locality
  • Description: phantom island in New Caledonia
  • Also known as: “Sable Island” and “Sandy Island, New Caledonia”

Sandy Island

Latitude
-19.21999° or 19° 13′ 12″ south
Longitude
159.92996° or 159° 55′ 48″ east
Open location code
5RGXQWJH+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4556997402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q80326
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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”
  • 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”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Sandy (zniknęła)”
  • 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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