http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52148 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 22:32:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52148#post-150114 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:11:09 +0000 roybland 150114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A large island long believed to be located in the English Channel a few miles off the county of Hampshire and separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent, does not exist, according to scientists.</p> <p>Although the island appears on marine charts, world maps and on Google Earth and Google Maps, it's a figment of the imagination, Oxford University's Department of Geography has concluded.</p> <p>'It's bizarre,' said Professor John Franks. 'We took a ferry from Southampton to examine the island but when we arrived at the location there was nothing there except sea and a rocky outcrop.'</p> <p>The phantom island has long featured in the popular imagination and was even believed to have Ceefax. </p>