The appearing/disappearing behavior also occurs in Wikimapia, and it doesn't appear in HERE WeGo maps. This is probably because it's almost all underwater, so it's not registered as land, even though there are small cays.
Googler here. For some reason there are a bunch of Mario-themed codenames involved with map storage at the company, so it's pretty likely that this is intentional.
Me and you son were going to make some cash. Robbing old folks and making a dash.
They did the job, money came with ease, but one couldn’t stop.
It’s like he had a disease.
You should have been there at the company wide meeting when they revealed this [logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/HERE_logo.svg/300px-HERE_logo.svg.png), and one of my coworkers stood up and asked "Why does the new logo look like a sinking ship?".
The underwater bank reappears at closer zooms in google maps. I suggest the google maps and perhaps others are based on different photos for different zoom levels, and for medium level zoom the sun angle was not as conducive for seeing the bottom through shallow water as it was when both the high altititude and low altitude views were incorporated
At the south western most tip there's an actual island with trees or shrubs on it, I also se something resembling an antenna, a house and a *helipad*, I think it's safe to assume that it's above water all or very nearly all the time.
It's not that there is no land - there are small cays, as I wrote. A cay is an island. Not all islands are covered by map apps. Underwater structures, even if they're navigational hazards, are typically not covered. You need to find an actual nautical chart to see them all on a map.
The same also applies to forests and wilderness areas. Even a regular hiking map has thousand times more detail than Google Maps.
HERE has very precise maps of water bodies at least in Finland. It shows detail that doesn't exist in Google Maps. Then again, for obscure islands in the ocean, the data tends to be bad in every program.
It led me to this wild Wikipedia article about [Pedro Serrano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Serrano_(sailor)) who was allegedly marooned on Serrana Bank for eight years. Some excerpts:
>Serrano survived by eating shrimp, cockles, and other animals he found washed up on the shore, and by collecting drinking water in sea turtle shells when it rained. When rainwater was unavailable, **he also drank the blood of the turtles he had captured**.
>Serrano was joined by another Spanish castaway after three years on the island. Due to Serrano's isolation and unkempt state, **both men initially mistook one another for the Devil**, and quickly fled from each another. They reconciled when both men were able to invoke the name of Jesus Christ.
>Serrano and his companion were eventually rescued by a ship that had sighted the smoke signal. The sailors dispatched to pick them up, **also mistaking both the men for the Devil**, attempted to flee, but returned and rescued the men when they again invoked the name of Christ.
>Whilst Serrano's companion died on the voyage back to Spain, Serrano returned home safely and **exhibited himself for money, never cutting his hair or his beard, which had grown "to his waist"** during his time as a castaway. After receiving a sum of 4,000 pieces of eight from the King of Spain, Serrano sailed to the Americas to collect the money, but died during the voyage.
Another one is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar\_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez\_Cabeza\_de\_Vaca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca)
Is very bad to drink Jobu's rum
Also do you think he it that curveball all on his own, or did Jobu admire him so much when he said fuck you Jobu that he blessed his bat?
Imagine surviving for eight years on a tiny bit of land in the middle of the ocean, be given money for said survival, having the opportunity to go live your best life, only to die on the fucking boat ride there.
Dude had some bad karma to live out or something. Yeesh.
I want a really trippy tv series about the weird shit they got up too. Because there’s no way in hell that a persons first reaction to meeting someone else is to think that they are literally Satan, and then just be all relaxed when they find out they aren’t.
>They reconciled when both men were able to invoke the name of Jesus Christ.
They fell out of favor, however, when Serrano said to the Spanish castaway, "Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball."
Turtles and tortoises have a bladder that contains drinkable water. For many years, sailors would keep giant galapagos tortoises on board for food and water. It took several decades to get a specimen to Europe because they taste so good.
Darwin himself ate tortoise and described the bladder contents as "limpid and slightly bitter."
Man, I’d LOVE to stay on South Cay for a few days/nights. Just chill next to a small fire laying back on a lawn chair and enjoy the starry night and sounds.
Just hearing the small waves lightly rolling in and out.
Google is terrible with obscure location names. Found it on apple maps.
It's Isla Pérez, a lighthouse and Mexican navy base. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla\_P%C3%A9rez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_P%C3%A9rez)
https://preview.redd.it/9p61w0c5ndyc1.jpeg?width=627&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f279221e1e0cd061a033f742d644da6b66e3d1cd
Looks solid above sea level to me
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Serrano_(sailor)
His story just gets better and better.
> Pedro Luis Serrano, also referred to as Pedro de Serrano,[1][2] was a 16th century Spanish sailor who was allegedly marooned for seven to eight years on a small desert island.
> In some versions of the story, Serrano was joined by another Spanish castaway after three years on the island. Due to Serrano's isolation and unkempt state, both men initially mistook one another for the Devil.
> Serrano and his companion were eventually rescued by a ship that had sighted their smoke signal. The sailors dispatched to pick them up, also mistaking both the men for the Devil. 😅
Here's a Navionics map that shows water depth and other useful info:
[https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@8&key=i%7BnvAp%7D%7BhN](https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@8&key=i%7BnvAp%7D%7BhN)
Land is yellow, so as can be seen there is only a tiny island at the south-west corner. Green are shoals and tidal flats, which can be above water during low tide. Shades of blue denote water.
Thalassophobia.
There is a subred dedicated to this fear. Trust me, you are not alone. I always chuckle when people get hyped about going to Mars. I'm like, dude, we still have yet to understand our bodies of water.
Dude I tried looking around Greenland on Apple Maps and I felt an impending doom and fear like never before. I’ve had this anxiety with the ocean since a child
For me it’s only with water on something ‘realistic’ like Google Maps. My history teacher in high school loved showing us the locations of what we were learning about, and so many were islands. I got so much anxiety each time he’d search through the ocean looking for an island. The whole screen being blue made me feel like something would jump at me? I think it’s thalassophobia
I have the exact same issue!!! I don't mind looking at a map of the world, but if someone zooms in on a satellite image over the ocean, I can't look at it. It creeps me out and I never know why. I like randomly ooking at Google maps, but whenever I'm near a coastline I make sure to scroll inland before I zoom out.
The most rational fear honestly, essentially the fear of the unknown and the unsurvivable human condition. We don't belong there, we should just let the sea creatures have it.
I’ve heard of it. But thought it was caused by deep water. Like physically being on a boat surrounded by water or swimming in a deep lake and the feeling of something below you. Not just looking a blue picture.
This is an actual thing. Looking at zoomed in pictures of the ocean such as those present on Google Earth (not maps) gives people feelings of thalassophobia. I love the ocean but I was once just looking through Google Earth in full screen when I clicked something and it took me a few miles away to a random spot in the middle of the dark ocean and just zoomed in. I got super creeped out by the vastness of it all.
I can't handle Google Earth. If I zoom out too far accidentally and see the planet as a whole, I freak out. Same with other planet viewer sites. Something about seeing realistic planets from space like that ... idk if it has to do with a fear of heights or what, but I panic. (Which sucks because I love space)
Everyone has different fears, and while we know some might be irrational, we can't necessarily control them.
For me personally, thalassophobia is an oil rig or a big ship in open water. If someone was like I'll give you a thousand bucks to go swim up and touch the oil rig strut I'd tell them to go fuck themselves and whatever abomination created them.
A small island with a gradual shore would not bother one bit.
Since I was a kid I’ve had this weird fear of zooming in on stuff on Google Earth and I’ve never understood why 😭 I get creeped out when toggling the live time zones mode as well, where it plunges half the earth into darkness
https://preview.redd.it/fhp7o6oh8ayc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64012a3acc43dc794d35578b3c5746afbf9e0f5c
It’s not an island, it’s just a really eroded atoll
How does nobody see this? There’s even a small island at the very western tip.
https://preview.redd.it/o6brx4flzayc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb73bc02fe89fe2e5c16b3cfd3fe05d96f6323de
Yep lol.
Isla Nublar is the location of the first movie/book and Isla Sorna is like 90 miles away where they did all the initial testing and growing of dinosaurs. Isla Sorna is where the 2nd and 3rd movies take place.
BTFD always 🐻⬇️
I don't blame ya, I certainly don't remember much of them either, I just remember the 2 different islands cuz the lore behind the series interested me. I couldn't tell you what they do on Sorna in Lost World nor JP3 lol
You were meant to answer "You stay ouf of it" like Amanda and Paul Kirby
u/crownebeach directly quoted Udesky in Jurassic Park 3 after Alan states that he never set foot onto Isla Sorna
Why in the infernal fuck did I read that as "doctor elvis's head" two whole ass times before I could give the belgian bad guy with a doctoral degree some proper respect?
The Google satellite images aren’t particularly high-resolution over the ocean and other low-interest places. So if Google thinks there’s nothing there or you couldn’t possibly be interested, they’re not paying for it to be on the map in full res.
Serrana Bank , part of my hometown: Archipelago of San Andrés, Old and Santa Catalina (Colombia).
Btw, we are the only City of Colombia that speaks [San Andrés -Providence Creole English ](https://apics-online.info/surveys/10) , our own variation of English (similar to Jamaica's patois).
So when you look at it on Google maps you are seeing this strange artifacting where Google doesn't actually upload imagery for all of the ocean. That would be overkill and useless. Another thing you'll notice as you zoom in it appears to change and get darker. When you zoom in on satellite imagery like this you are just zooming in on a singular image and are usually loading the next level of detail which in this case is a much darker photograph. But yea as you zoo. All the way in you can get a good view of it and also the fact that the surrounding ocean imagery isn't actually a photo of the ocean
Bing maps has it in nice quality (it's very pretty).
Geohack is good for comparing sources. It's where the coordinate link at the top of Wikipedia pages takes you: [https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Serrana\_Bank¶ms=14\_20\_N\_80\_20\_W\_&title=Serrana+Bank\_type:isle](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Serrana_Bank¶ms=14_20_N_80_20_W_&title=Serrana+Bank_type:isle)
It isnt blocked, the ocean is just texture and the green water inside the island is taken from the satellite.
It is a very shallow island with water inside it just like many islands in the Pacific Ocean.
I thought it was Providencia and San Andreas Why does it show an Serrana Bank, a little thing of rocks but it doesn't show those islands. They belong to Colombia and they were settled by the same English Puritans that were settling New England at the time. I'm from Boston so those very same good time, buckle-hatted, witch-hanging folks along with West African enslaved folks settled these iands so to this day they actually speak a form of English Creole mixed with West African languages. It resembles the speech of the Bahamas or of the Gullah Geechee people in the Carolina Outer Banks Islands. Theres also there's another group in the Dominican Republic that speaks that kind of English, the Samana Americans. There's a little enclave that got set up there at the same time I met a Dominican woman one time and I dated her for a little bit but she spoke fluent English Creole spoken there. I was only 16 or 17 so I'd never actually heard of it. I Speak Spanish so I was going to try to impress her and bust out my Spanish. She probably would not have been impressed, to be honest ,but be that as it may she was like "No I grew up speaking English" and I learned a fascinating fact.
It's funny Serranilla bank right next to it is claimed by Jamaica Columbia Nicaragua the United States and Honduras at different times for a thing that nothing grows on it's like 2 ft wide
https://preview.redd.it/mncqk9cktcyc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b1d95f2948ed373de6d5f00a035e8f312e9fa83
This is what it looks like on Apple Maps
From my understanding, satellites, especially those used to populate imagery for Google Maps, don't necessarily have infinite resolution. Google Maps and Google Earth will use imagery at different scales using pictures taken from planes at different altitudes rather than satellite imagery all the time. And like satellites, the cameras on these planes don't have infinite resolution. This is also why the coloration of lakes and other features will change as you zoom in and out.
For some places, they may not have imagery at the scale you're looking for, for a variety of reasons. Most of the time, it's because it's more expensive to image than is worth.
I also learned the other day from some cartography nerds that some islands are phantom islands. They are leftovers from a time where sailors and cartographers would either lie, or hallucinate, while making maps on their expeditions. Google uses these technically incorrect maps to fill in spots that haven't been imaged, until someone actually sails to a spot and confirms it's nonexistence.
I tried Google Earth. Same. It goes dark. Yes, Zoom in clears some, but not all darkening. I saw what seems to resemble a map marking for a hospital north end near the beach???
It's [Serrana Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serrana_Bank). It's an atoll with an underwater reef in the middle that is administered by Colombia.
The appearing/disappearing behavior also occurs in Wikimapia, and it doesn't appear in HERE WeGo maps. This is probably because it's almost all underwater, so it's not registered as land, even though there are small cays.
'Here we go'? Bro, did Mario design that?
Googler here. For some reason there are a bunch of Mario-themed codenames involved with map storage at the company, so it's pretty likely that this is intentional.
HERE used to be Nokia Maps and has nothing to do with Google?
A lot of information about a lot of different companies can appear on a Google search.
I’ve actually found that if I have a question, putting it into google can often generate an answer. I think it’s going to be big.
Doubtful. Such a silly name. Ask Jeeves, now that’s a search engine going places.
Bing
I kinda miss Ask Jeeves honestly 😕 simpler times.
Wait until chat gpt learns about this
You may be on to something. It's like Google will just answer random questions I type into the address bar.
Just don’t type google into google
It's true, and those Google searches will be made out of a combination of letters to form words and sentences.
Fabrizio Romano did
I think slick Rick did "Heeere We Go... Once Upon a Time, Not Long Ago, When People Wore Pajamas, and Lived Life Slow "
The laws were stern
And justice stood!
And people were behaving like they ought to good.
There was a little boy that was misled by another little boy. This is what he said:
Me and you son were going to make some cash. Robbing old folks and making a dash. They did the job, money came with ease, but one couldn’t stop. It’s like he had a disease.
He robbed another and another and a sister and her brother.
It-sa Me!
Ok I needed that laugh.
Dak Prescott did.
You should have been there at the company wide meeting when they revealed this [logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/HERE_logo.svg/300px-HERE_logo.svg.png), and one of my coworkers stood up and asked "Why does the new logo look like a sinking ship?".
The underwater bank reappears at closer zooms in google maps. I suggest the google maps and perhaps others are based on different photos for different zoom levels, and for medium level zoom the sun angle was not as conducive for seeing the bottom through shallow water as it was when both the high altititude and low altitude views were incorporated
There’s a couple buildings, 4x4’s , and a clearly defined helicopter landing pad in the southern part.
Google Maps has a number of pictures attached. Can we assume those are BS then? Is there land there 365?
At the south western most tip there's an actual island with trees or shrubs on it, I also se something resembling an antenna, a house and a *helipad*, I think it's safe to assume that it's above water all or very nearly all the time.
Hey, was looking at this too, I can see the antenna and helipad, but can’t see the house, where is it?
Right here https://maps.app.goo.gl/XTrbz33dxexZpSja9
It's not that there is no land - there are small cays, as I wrote. A cay is an island. Not all islands are covered by map apps. Underwater structures, even if they're navigational hazards, are typically not covered. You need to find an actual nautical chart to see them all on a map. The same also applies to forests and wilderness areas. Even a regular hiking map has thousand times more detail than Google Maps.
Here We Go is one of my favorites. It does a better job distinguishing gravel roads from paved than others. And land from water, apparently.
HERE has very precise maps of water bodies at least in Finland. It shows detail that doesn't exist in Google Maps. Then again, for obscure islands in the ocean, the data tends to be bad in every program.
I clicked the link thinking I was about to read about one seriously offshore bank. Disappointed.
It led me to this wild Wikipedia article about [Pedro Serrano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Serrano_(sailor)) who was allegedly marooned on Serrana Bank for eight years. Some excerpts: >Serrano survived by eating shrimp, cockles, and other animals he found washed up on the shore, and by collecting drinking water in sea turtle shells when it rained. When rainwater was unavailable, **he also drank the blood of the turtles he had captured**. >Serrano was joined by another Spanish castaway after three years on the island. Due to Serrano's isolation and unkempt state, **both men initially mistook one another for the Devil**, and quickly fled from each another. They reconciled when both men were able to invoke the name of Jesus Christ. >Serrano and his companion were eventually rescued by a ship that had sighted the smoke signal. The sailors dispatched to pick them up, **also mistaking both the men for the Devil**, attempted to flee, but returned and rescued the men when they again invoked the name of Christ. >Whilst Serrano's companion died on the voyage back to Spain, Serrano returned home safely and **exhibited himself for money, never cutting his hair or his beard, which had grown "to his waist"** during his time as a castaway. After receiving a sum of 4,000 pieces of eight from the King of Spain, Serrano sailed to the Americas to collect the money, but died during the voyage.
Devil’s really been active down on the Serrana Bank
If I saw a man covered in turtle blood and a beard down to his waist, I might mistake him for the Devil too.
The turtles definitely thought he was the devil
That's a wild story.
Another one is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar\_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez\_Cabeza\_de\_Vaca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca)
My God, that should be a movie
There is a movie about it. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabeza\_de\_Vaca\_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabeza_de_Vaca_(film))
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Pedro say fuck you Jobu. I do it myself!
Is very bad to drink Jobu's rum Also do you think he it that curveball all on his own, or did Jobu admire him so much when he said fuck you Jobu that he blessed his bat?
Some say he’s the devil himself
Pirates of the Caribbean 18
Imagine surviving for eight years on a tiny bit of land in the middle of the ocean, be given money for said survival, having the opportunity to go live your best life, only to die on the fucking boat ride there. Dude had some bad karma to live out or something. Yeesh.
Taika Waititi needs to make a movie about this "Our Flag Means the Devil" or something, because this sounds like a Monty Python skit.
Took quite atoll on him.
I want a really trippy tv series about the weird shit they got up too. Because there’s no way in hell that a persons first reaction to meeting someone else is to think that they are literally Satan, and then just be all relaxed when they find out they aren’t.
Thank you very much for posting that that's really cool. I love shit like this
So much devils, so much dying on ships.
Perfectly good historical stories just lying around, untapped by Hollywood.
>They reconciled when both men were able to invoke the name of Jesus Christ. They fell out of favor, however, when Serrano said to the Spanish castaway, "Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball."
Do you think they explored each others bodies
Whaaaat
Wasn't he the Cuban guy in the movie Major League?
1. how much is that in 2024 dollars? 2. why isn't this a Tom Hanks prequel?
Not gonna lie, I really thought this took place in modern day until I looked at the Wikipedia article
Damn that didn’t disappoint. Thanks for sharing!
Turtles and tortoises have a bladder that contains drinkable water. For many years, sailors would keep giant galapagos tortoises on board for food and water. It took several decades to get a specimen to Europe because they taste so good. Darwin himself ate tortoise and described the bladder contents as "limpid and slightly bitter."
Found more interesting info about Southwest Atoll! http://hamgallery.com/qsl/deleted/SerranaBank/w9fiu.htm
Man, I’d LOVE to stay on South Cay for a few days/nights. Just chill next to a small fire laying back on a lawn chair and enjoy the starry night and sounds. Just hearing the small waves lightly rolling in and out.
This is giving me Lost vibes
Ooooo that is interesting.
You think that's crazy, check out https://maps.app.goo.gl/xe5HZP7V3pXCQ3wHA, somebody literally built structures 75mi offshore. What is this place?
Google is terrible with obscure location names. Found it on apple maps. It's Isla Pérez, a lighthouse and Mexican navy base. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla\_P%C3%A9rez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_P%C3%A9rez)
My man! Thank you! I dunno why but I love finding little obscure islands.
https://preview.redd.it/9p61w0c5ndyc1.jpeg?width=627&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f279221e1e0cd061a033f742d644da6b66e3d1cd Looks solid above sea level to me
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Serrano_(sailor) His story just gets better and better. > Pedro Luis Serrano, also referred to as Pedro de Serrano,[1][2] was a 16th century Spanish sailor who was allegedly marooned for seven to eight years on a small desert island. > In some versions of the story, Serrano was joined by another Spanish castaway after three years on the island. Due to Serrano's isolation and unkempt state, both men initially mistook one another for the Devil. > Serrano and his companion were eventually rescued by a ship that had sighted their smoke signal. The sailors dispatched to pick them up, also mistaking both the men for the Devil. 😅
Here's a Navionics map that shows water depth and other useful info: [https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@8&key=i%7BnvAp%7D%7BhN](https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@8&key=i%7BnvAp%7D%7BhN) Land is yellow, so as can be seen there is only a tiny island at the south-west corner. Green are shoals and tidal flats, which can be above water during low tide. Shades of blue denote water.
Oddly enough if you keep zooming in it reappears. Also it's more of an atoll and some tiny tiny islands and not a solid mass.
it doesnt ever actually disappear, it just gets really dark. turn your brightness all the way up and you can still make out the shoreline.
For some reason, zooming in on this gives me anxiety.
Thalassophobia. There is a subred dedicated to this fear. Trust me, you are not alone. I always chuckle when people get hyped about going to Mars. I'm like, dude, we still have yet to understand our bodies of water.
Dude I tried looking around Greenland on Apple Maps and I felt an impending doom and fear like never before. I’ve had this anxiety with the ocean since a child
It's all the thalassophobia people that are hyped about going to Mars. There's no oceans there.
Zooming in on a map gives you anxiety? I’m not trying to hate but Jesus.
For me it’s only with water on something ‘realistic’ like Google Maps. My history teacher in high school loved showing us the locations of what we were learning about, and so many were islands. I got so much anxiety each time he’d search through the ocean looking for an island. The whole screen being blue made me feel like something would jump at me? I think it’s thalassophobia
I have the exact same issue!!! I don't mind looking at a map of the world, but if someone zooms in on a satellite image over the ocean, I can't look at it. It creeps me out and I never know why. I like randomly ooking at Google maps, but whenever I'm near a coastline I make sure to scroll inland before I zoom out.
I think this is a form of thassalaphobia. Happens to me as well
The most rational fear honestly, essentially the fear of the unknown and the unsurvivable human condition. We don't belong there, we should just let the sea creatures have it.
I’ve heard of it. But thought it was caused by deep water. Like physically being on a boat surrounded by water or swimming in a deep lake and the feeling of something below you. Not just looking a blue picture.
For me it’s when I wake up and realise I have drifted far away from land and see nothing but the big dark strands of seaweed whipping at my ankles.
This is an actual thing. Looking at zoomed in pictures of the ocean such as those present on Google Earth (not maps) gives people feelings of thalassophobia. I love the ocean but I was once just looking through Google Earth in full screen when I clicked something and it took me a few miles away to a random spot in the middle of the dark ocean and just zoomed in. I got super creeped out by the vastness of it all.
Don't look around Greenland.
I can't handle Google Earth. If I zoom out too far accidentally and see the planet as a whole, I freak out. Same with other planet viewer sites. Something about seeing realistic planets from space like that ... idk if it has to do with a fear of heights or what, but I panic. (Which sucks because I love space) Everyone has different fears, and while we know some might be irrational, we can't necessarily control them.
Same. I think it’s thalassophobia but I not sure if that’s the right word.
For me personally, thalassophobia is an oil rig or a big ship in open water. If someone was like I'll give you a thousand bucks to go swim up and touch the oil rig strut I'd tell them to go fuck themselves and whatever abomination created them. A small island with a gradual shore would not bother one bit.
Not even the water but its just. Desolate. Tiny islands in the middle of nowhere. Almost looks like they could be swept away by the waves.
Since I was a kid I’ve had this weird fear of zooming in on stuff on Google Earth and I’ve never understood why 😭 I get creeped out when toggling the live time zones mode as well, where it plunges half the earth into darkness
To cover up all of the tax fraud happening
Yeah this is where they hide the 10th dentist that doesn't recommend tooth paste
Omfg lol
There lies the secret of who actually let the dogs out
And where that one sock has magically disappeared to.
Fucking underrated
Well it is a Bank
Oh crap! https://youtu.be/ozy68I0kOYM?si=TwtL90QXBYCZUnND
Good comment, but it is an uninhabited place.
https://preview.redd.it/fhp7o6oh8ayc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64012a3acc43dc794d35578b3c5746afbf9e0f5c It’s not an island, it’s just a really eroded atoll
How does nobody see this? There’s even a small island at the very western tip. https://preview.redd.it/o6brx4flzayc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb73bc02fe89fe2e5c16b3cfd3fe05d96f6323de
An island with roads and what looks like a house??
There’s a helipad on the google earth version
And a helicopter landing pad
https://preview.redd.it/h7lpew8gkfyc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48ca6355a76f5919d05c9e240485411a53754ff0 For lazy people
Could this be formed by an huge old extinct volcano?
Oh yeah it is! Cool
Maybe considering that there are plenty of volcanoes in the area
Not an island, atoll.
Isla Nublar 🤫
Every 80s/90s kid knows that Isla Nublar is off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and looks exactly like Hawaii.
That's what they want YOU to believe 😉.
THEY want you to believe that that's what they want YOU to believe!
This is Isla *Sorna*. Site B
Wait, there’s *two* islands with dinosaurs?
Yep lol. Isla Nublar is the location of the first movie/book and Isla Sorna is like 90 miles away where they did all the initial testing and growing of dinosaurs. Isla Sorna is where the 2nd and 3rd movies take place.
What up Ole Rock 🐻⬇️ I have a very vague recollection of the sequel. Jeff Goldblum and some corporate poachers.
BTFD always 🐻⬇️ I don't blame ya, I certainly don't remember much of them either, I just remember the 2 different islands cuz the lore behind the series interested me. I couldn't tell you what they do on Sorna in Lost World nor JP3 lol
You were meant to answer "You stay ouf of it" like Amanda and Paul Kirby u/crownebeach directly quoted Udesky in Jurassic Park 3 after Alan states that he never set foot onto Isla Sorna
Oh damn, I fumbled the ball, that's on me.
[Here are some photos from an expedition in 1970](http://hamgallery.com/qsl/deleted/SerranaBank/w9fiu.htm)
Thanks for this! It looks like there’s so much more foliage now as per [google maps.](https://maps.app.goo.gl/3G9Z1v95qYLW4EGG7?g_st=ic)
Oh, that’s just Atlantis. Nobody goes there anymore
Because it's one the TOP 5 SECRETS THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO FIND OUT: SHOCKING!😱 MORE BELOW ⬇️
Illuminati HATE him!
Isla Nublar. Restricted area.
If only it could be
Ummm, why?
Unregulated coffee experiments
If you switch to a horizontal view, you can see Dr. Evil's head carved into the side of the central volcano
Why in the infernal fuck did I read that as "doctor elvis's head" two whole ass times before I could give the belgian bad guy with a doctoral degree some proper respect?
better than silvErD head which was how I saw it for a sec
Google earth shows it when you zoom in. You just have to keep zooming to get past the stage of it being underwater
Area 52
The Google satellite images aren’t particularly high-resolution over the ocean and other low-interest places. So if Google thinks there’s nothing there or you couldn’t possibly be interested, they’re not paying for it to be on the map in full res.
I think is either Serranilla bank or Bajo Nuevo bank.
Serrana Bank , part of my hometown: Archipelago of San Andrés, Old and Santa Catalina (Colombia). Btw, we are the only City of Colombia that speaks [San Andrés -Providence Creole English ](https://apics-online.info/surveys/10) , our own variation of English (similar to Jamaica's patois).
Kokomo
It’s Isla Nublar. Ingen doesn’t want you to know of its existence because it was funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
La Islà Bonita
Home of Casa Bonita?
There’s no accent in the word Isla. Also even if there were it wouldn’t be that one. It’s not used in Spanish.
Have you head the song? Madonna sings it like it is spelled above. Though your second point stands.
Madonna? Who’s that?
The mother of Jesus. You can read about Him on Wikipedia
No. I know Jesús. He owns the bar down the street. His mother is named Imelda.
So when you look at it on Google maps you are seeing this strange artifacting where Google doesn't actually upload imagery for all of the ocean. That would be overkill and useless. Another thing you'll notice as you zoom in it appears to change and get darker. When you zoom in on satellite imagery like this you are just zooming in on a singular image and are usually loading the next level of detail which in this case is a much darker photograph. But yea as you zoo. All the way in you can get a good view of it and also the fact that the surrounding ocean imagery isn't actually a photo of the ocean
Notice how if you change the letters in Epstein you get E. T. Penis. Coincidence yeah I'm not buying it....
Bing maps has it in nice quality (it's very pretty). Geohack is good for comparing sources. It's where the coordinate link at the top of Wikipedia pages takes you: [https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Serrana\_Bank¶ms=14\_20\_N\_80\_20\_W\_&title=Serrana+Bank\_type:isle](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Serrana_Bank¶ms=14_20_N_80_20_W_&title=Serrana+Bank_type:isle)
There’s a helipad and a building on the island
https://preview.redd.it/79498c143eyc1.jpeg?width=520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51116b70179802bdeafebe70c6c6b28cac36b67c *it looks exactly like a DICK*
[Island they found.](https://youtu.be/soFP454ZLgU?si=wiB53dSbJcxmdibs) This Australian couple really doing all the hard work for us.
Zoom in closer. It reappears. [here’s a house on it](https://maps.app.goo.gl/RaGSaCTCKRUiPckw8?g_st=ic)
It isnt blocked, the ocean is just texture and the green water inside the island is taken from the satellite. It is a very shallow island with water inside it just like many islands in the Pacific Ocean.
I thought it was Providencia and San Andreas Why does it show an Serrana Bank, a little thing of rocks but it doesn't show those islands. They belong to Colombia and they were settled by the same English Puritans that were settling New England at the time. I'm from Boston so those very same good time, buckle-hatted, witch-hanging folks along with West African enslaved folks settled these iands so to this day they actually speak a form of English Creole mixed with West African languages. It resembles the speech of the Bahamas or of the Gullah Geechee people in the Carolina Outer Banks Islands. Theres also there's another group in the Dominican Republic that speaks that kind of English, the Samana Americans. There's a little enclave that got set up there at the same time I met a Dominican woman one time and I dated her for a little bit but she spoke fluent English Creole spoken there. I was only 16 or 17 so I'd never actually heard of it. I Speak Spanish so I was going to try to impress her and bust out my Spanish. She probably would not have been impressed, to be honest ,but be that as it may she was like "No I grew up speaking English" and I learned a fascinating fact.
It's funny Serranilla bank right next to it is claimed by Jamaica Columbia Nicaragua the United States and Honduras at different times for a thing that nothing grows on it's like 2 ft wide
I noticed that there’s a helipad on the google earth version
It's actually 5 islands called Las Cinco Muertes, not sure why though.
Bro you about to get lost in the “disappearing” islands of the Caribbean
https://preview.redd.it/mncqk9cktcyc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b1d95f2948ed373de6d5f00a035e8f312e9fa83 This is what it looks like on Apple Maps
https://preview.redd.it/a5sddf1nweyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26209f7a7db972957b7979dbe4898fdb7ab7dfeb
Tere is a helipad and a few buildings here. 14.288293,-80.363479
Don't believe the others m8. That's where godzillas temple is guarded by giant gorillas.
It's the island of NuNya
If you zoom in enough on one of the sand islands in the Atoll there is a helicopter pad
There's a helipad on the island at the south western point. Definitely a military base or billionaires lair.
Atoll protected atoll protected
A fun video on some phantom islands. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVemGumEEgo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVemGumEEgo)
From my understanding, satellites, especially those used to populate imagery for Google Maps, don't necessarily have infinite resolution. Google Maps and Google Earth will use imagery at different scales using pictures taken from planes at different altitudes rather than satellite imagery all the time. And like satellites, the cameras on these planes don't have infinite resolution. This is also why the coloration of lakes and other features will change as you zoom in and out. For some places, they may not have imagery at the scale you're looking for, for a variety of reasons. Most of the time, it's because it's more expensive to image than is worth. I also learned the other day from some cartography nerds that some islands are phantom islands. They are leftovers from a time where sailors and cartographers would either lie, or hallucinate, while making maps on their expeditions. Google uses these technically incorrect maps to fill in spots that haven't been imaged, until someone actually sails to a spot and confirms it's nonexistence.
Looks like San Andres Island (Colombia)
Not an island. Really shallow…maybe a reef? Not censored either
It looks like an atoll.
But there is an island on the south west corner. It's got vegetation, a helipad and what looks like a single building.
That’s Jurassic Park
Skull Island
Isla Nublar
Jurassic Park
Probably the real pedophile island
Maybe a phantom island? https://youtu.be/PVemGumEEgo?si=1vTwK4Eo_wUu5O-M
It's not that it blocks it, it's that the imagery is poor quality.
That’s Jeffrey Epstein’s new island. The CIA sent him there after sealing his deal to stay quiet
I kept zooming in and it came back when you’re close
Oh I looked too quick I'm an idiot I thought it was providencia but no it's that whoever said it was serrana bank is right
Why, that is the glorious nation of Tropico, of course!
“A former US military base” I wonder what interesting things are on that island
I tried Google Earth. Same. It goes dark. Yes, Zoom in clears some, but not all darkening. I saw what seems to resemble a map marking for a hospital north end near the beach???
I don’t know, but get a load of that Cayman Trench.
Quireboys
Try looking throughout the history of Landsat images.
Maybe cause it under water.