Pacific Island, Bigger Than Manhattan, Vanishes

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Pacific Island, Bigger Than Manhattan, Vanishes

By Robert Krulwich
NPR
Friday, March 15, 2013

You can see it on this Google Map — a little spit of
land, sitting between Australia (on the left) and French-
governed New Caledonia (on the right).

Sandy Island, via PerthNow

Via PerthNow

It's called "Sandy Island." In the Times Atlas of the
World it's called "Sable Island." On both maps it's a
conspicuous land mass, roughly 15 miles long from north
to south, three miles across. Altogether, that's about 45
square miles — about one and a half times the size of
Manhattan.

It's on older maps, too, like this admiralty chart
published in 1908 — follow the vertical line (longitude)
down, and look to the left. It's the biggest dry spot in
the neighborhood.

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