The mysterious ghost islands that man searched for thousands of years

2024-02-20 03:27:39

Explorers claimed to have seen them, powerful kings sent hundreds of ships to look for them and they were even included in international treaties until very recent times, but they never appeared.

Montage of Andrea Benincasa’s Atlas from 1476, on a ship from the ABC era

20/02/2024

Updated at 04:46h.

In August 1966, the poet and journalist José María Castroviejo wrote in ABC: «Again among the haze and on the green waves of spring, the observers of the Hierro have seen another ghost island emerge in the Atlantic: San Borondón. Seems …

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