Dougherty

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This article is about a phantom island. For the county in the state of Georgia, U.S., see Dougherty County, Georgia.

Dougherty is the name of a phantom island believed to be located in the southern hemisphere towards Australia. In 1893 the New Zealand Captain White circumnavigated the island. It was removed from charts thereafter.

[edit] Reference

  • Hamilton-Paterson, James: The Great deep : the sea and its tresholds; New York : Holt, 1993 ISBN 0-8050-2776-9
  • Stommel, Henry: Lost islands : the story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts; Vancouver : Univ. of British Columbia Pr., 1984 ISBN 0-7748-0210-3
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