Podesta is a phantom island reported at by the

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Captain Pinocchio of the vessel '' Barone Podestà'' (

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, ''Carrington Collection'', page 21) in 1879 claiming it to be just over a kilometre (1000 yards) in circumference located 1390 km (750 n. mi.) due west of El Quisco,

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. It was originally located 900 miles west of

's coast. The island was charted until 1935, when it was removed from charts (marked "Existence Doubtful" by Defense Mapping Agency's 197
Operation Navigational Chart R-22
. The island has not been found since. An island near

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was sighted in 1912 but was likewise never seen again. Sarah Ann Island northwest of

was another island also removed from naval charts when a search in 1932 failed to find it. Currently the micronation of the

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claims "

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" over the Podestá Island.

References

Sources

* Stommel, Henry (1984). ''Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts''. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp 103–104. . * Carrington, Hereward (1947). ''Carrington Collection''. E. Haldeman-Julius. Phantom islands Islands of the Pacific Ocean 1879 establishments {{oceania-geo-stub