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The Isle of Demons is a phantom island once associated with Quirpon Island, Newfoundland, in Canada. It was generally shown as two islands. It began appearing on maps in the beginning of the 16th century and disappeared in the mid-17th century.
Apr 2, 2024 · The Isle of Demons - or Île des Démons - was believed to be located at the top of the Straits of Belle Isle which divides Newfoundland and Labrador.
Jul 2, 2023 · Undiscovered country. The Isle of Demons slowly disappeared from maps over the course of the 17th century as the geography of the North Atlantic became better known to Europeans.
Oct 28, 2023 · The Isle of Demons first appears in the 1508 map of Johannes Ruysch. It may simply be a relocated version of the older legendary island of Satanazes ("Devils" in Portuguese) that was normally depicted in 15th century maps in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just north of Antillia.
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- Island of Flame
Supposedly located off the coast of Newfoundland, this landmass (sometimes depicted as two islands) appeared on 16th- and early 17th-century maps, and was named for the mysterious cries and groans mariners reported hearing through the mist. The island was given a somewhat more solid identity after 1542, when nobleman and adventurer Jean-François de...
Also known as the Isle of Seven Cities, Antilliawas a 15th-century cartographic phenomenon said to lie far west of Spain and Portugal. Stories about its existence are connected to an Iberian legend in which seven Visigothic bishops and their parishioners fled Muslim conquerors in the 8th century, sailing west and eventually discovering an island wh...
First mentioned by Plato, Atlantis was supposedly a large island that lay “to the west of the Pillars of Hercules” in the Atlantic Ocean. It was said to be a peaceful but powerful kingdom lost beneath the waves after a violent earthquake was released by the gods as punishment for waging war against Athens. There have been many attempts at identifyi...
In Greek mythology, Aeaea is the floating home of Circe, the goddess of magic. Circe is said to have spent her time on the island, gifted to her by her father, the sun, waiting for mortal sailors to land so she could seduce them. (Afterwards, the story goes, she would turn them into pigs.) Some classical scholars have identified Aeaea as the Cape C...
Also known as Country o’Breasal, Brazil Rock, Hy na-Beatha (Isle of Life), Tir fo-Thuin (Land Under the Wave), and by many other names, Brasil (Gaelic for “Isle of the Blessed”) is one of the many mythical islands of Irish folklore, but one that nevertheless made several appearances on real maps. Like the Mediterranean’s Atlantis, Brasil was said t...
In the Indigenous Yolngu culture in present-day Australia, Baralku (or Bralgu) is the island of the dead. The island holds a central place in Yolngu cosmology—it’s where the creator-spirit Barnumbirr is said to live before rising into the sky as the planet Venus each morning. Baralku is also the spot where the three siblings who created the landsca...
This piece of land was said to have been discovered by Irish abbot and traveler Saint Brendan of Clonfert and his followers in 512 CE, and to be located in the North Atlantic, somewhere west of northern Africa. Brendan became famous after the publication of Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot), an 8th or 9th century...
For the Greeks and Romans, Ultima Thule existed at the northernmost limit of their known world. It first appears in a lost work by the Greek explorer Pytheas, who supposedly found it in the 4th century BCE. The Greek historian Polybius wrotethat “Pytheas ... has led many people into error by saying that he traversed the whole of Britain on foot ......
First mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 12th century Historia regum Britanniae, Avalon is the place where the legendary King Arthur’s sword is said to have been forged, and where he was sent to recover after being wounded in battle. The island was said to be the domain of Arthur’s half-sister, sorceress Morgan le Fay, as well as her eight sisters...
In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Island of Flame (also known as the Island of Peace) was the magical birthplace of the gods and part of the kingdom of Osiris. It was said to have emerged out of primeval watersand to lay far to the east, beyond the boundaries of the world of the living. It was a place of everlasting light associated with the risin...
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Feb 26, 2013 · If a paradise like Antillia or Saint Brendan’s Isle sounded credible in the medieval imagination so did its opposite, an island haunted by demons. In fact there were two; Satanazes, which usually lay a little to the north of Antillia, and the Isle of Demons off Newfoundland, which first appeared on 16th century maps.
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Jun 25, 2014 · The Dawn Treader of course sails east; the revealed geography of the Atlantic sits to the west, and was as often as not associated with the Devil (another legendary island was named Satanaxio or Satanazes or Santana): St Brendan actually arrives in the Blessed Isle by returning from the West.
