Podesta is a phantom island

Phantom island

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 reported at 32°14′S 89°08′W by the Italian

Italian people

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 Captain Pinocchio

Pinocchio

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 of the vessel Barone Podestà (Hereward Carrington

Hereward Carrington

Hereward Carrington, Ph.D. was a well-known British investigator of psychic phenomena and author...

, Carrington Collection, page 21) in 1879 claiming it to be just over a kilometre in circumference located 1390 km due west of El Quisco

El Quisco

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, Chile

Chile

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. It was originally located 900 miles west of Chile

Chile

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's coast. The island was charted falsely until 1935 when it was removed from charts. The island has not been found since.

An island near Easter Island

Easter Island

Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...

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

Sarah Ann Island

Sarah Ann Island is a now submerged island, previously located just north of the equator, at about 175° W. It was discovered in 1858 and claimed by an American guano firm, under the Guano Islands Act...

 northwest of Easter Island

Easter Island

Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...

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

Sources

• Stommel, Henry
  Henry Stommel
  Henry Melson Stommel was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of the Gulf Stream that form the basis of physical oceanography today...
  
   (1984). Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp 103-104. ISBN 0774802103.
• Carrington, Hereward
  Hereward Carrington
  Hereward Carrington, Ph.D. was a well-known British investigator of psychic phenomena and author...
  
  (1947). Carrington Collection. E. Haldeman-Julius.