Ganges Island
Native name: 中ノ鳥島 | |
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Enlarged map accompanying the book The Earth, popular treatise on universal geography written at Italy in 1898. The words I(sola) Ganges are written in the lower right corner. | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Pacific Ocean |
| Archipelago | Ogasawara Islands |
| Area | 2.13 km2 (0.82 sq mi) |
| Coastline | 6.67 km (4.145 mi) |
| Administration | |
| Prefecture | Tokyo Prefecture |
| Subprefecture | Ogasawara Subprefecture |
| Additional information | |
| A phantom island that was recognized as Japanese territory from 1908 to 1943, but does not actually exist. Data on the island when it was recognized as a territory is provided. | |
Ganges Island, a phantom island known as Nakanotorishima (中ノ鳥島 or 中鳥島; literally "central bird island") in Japanese, appeared at 30°45′N 154°25′E / 30.750°N 154.417°E on maps of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Reports of its disappearance appeared in 1933.
The purported island was considered a part of an Anson Archipelago, which included other phantom islands such as Los Jardines as well as real islands such as Wake and Marcus Islands.