New Island
February 19th, 2010
Just west of Australia, there is a mysterious island that we’ve only known existed since 1992:
New Island has been ‘suppressed’ on most maps, mostly due to a little-known agreement with the US and the old Soviet Union made in the 1940s.
Because of it’s strategic value as a tracking station during the Cold War, the American CIA and the Soviet KGB quietly asked map publishers to delete New Island from maps or atlases of the region. To this day, the island does not appear, except on very few copies of the National Geographic Atlas of the World, Sixth Edition, 1995!
So, New Island doesn’t actually exist. An artist named Lee Mothes had been doing beach paintings for a long time. He decided to invent an imaginary place from where a lot of his paintings were coming from. He’s even created a history and maps and all sorts of crazy stuff to go long with it at a blog, check it out:
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