Los Jardines

Los Jardines or Los Buenos Jardines^[2] (Spanish, "the good gardens") are phantom islands supposedly located either near New Guinea,^[2] or later, northeast of the Mariana Islands.

The islands were reportedly visited by Spanish explorers Alvaro de Saavedra in 1528^[2] and Ruy López de Villalobos in 1542.^[3] Saavedra named them, and described them as 10 low-lying atolls.^[2] Sighted again by John Marshall in 1788,^[1] they had moved northwards^[2] where they were purported to be part of an Anson Archipelago, which included other phantom islands such as Ganges Island as well as real islands such as Wake and Marcus Islands. In 1973 the International Hydrographic Organization removed them from its charts.^[2]

Maps showing Los Jardines

An 1806 British map showing two possible locations of (Los) Jardines northeast of the Mariana Islands

An 1891 German map showing Los Jardines (Marshall) in the Anson Archipelago, northeast of the Mariana Islands and northwest of the Marshall Islands

An 1899 British map showing Los Jardines northeast of the Marianas and northwest of the Marshalls

A 1932 German map showing northeast of the Marianas and northwest of the Marshalls

References

1 2 International Hydrographic Review, Volume 67. 1990. p. 165.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "These Imaginary Islands Only Existed on Maps". 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
↑ Stommel, Henry (1984). Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. pp. 10–15. ISBN 0-7748-0210-3.

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