Picturesque, calm, and surrounded by water, islands are depicted as the ideal retirement spot in a lot of media. Personally, as much as I love the sea, I wouldn’t want to live somewhere where a bad storm could have me become food for a shark, but that’s just me.
There are an estimated 900,000 islands on Earth, and, as it stands, the odds of there being an undiscovered one are slim. There could be a few submerged, however, and that is the perfect lead-in to today’s story. I know, sudden, but I don’t feel like rambling about remote landmasses for five paragraphs.
It’s been a long time since I’ve covered a phantom island; the last one I covered was all the way back in 2020 when I went over the Terra Nova Islands. I’ve wanted to talk about another one of these enigmas for a couple of years now, but for one reason or another, I nixed it from my schedule. Today, however, we’ll be taking a trip down to Antarctica once more to talk about these—and it’s one with a pretty name: Emerald Island. Let the expedition begin!
