Sandy Island and the myth of digital accuracy

Geography

We trust our screens too much. Sandy Island is the ultimate proof. This place lived on nautical charts and Google Maps for over a hundred years. It was a physical landmass in the digital world. Then an Australian research ship sailed right through the coordinates. They found nothing but open ocean. How does a whole island just not exist? It is a phantom; a century of cartographic confidence meeting a very empty sea. Read the Wikipedia page to see the scale of the error. Anyone know of other phantom islands we should be hunting for?

Source

The island that was "undiscovered" in 2012