Royal Company's Islands

The Royal Company's Islands are a group of phantom islands reported by some early explorers to lie southwest of Tasmania.

The islands' existence was disproved as early as 1840 by the United States Exploring Expedition.

[1] From 1889 to 1902 several vessels passed through the islands' vicinity without noting any landforms, and in 1904 the UK Hydrographic Office finally decided to remove them from all Admiralty charts.

[2][3] In October 1894 the 'Antarctic' (H. Bull's exploratory whaling expedition sponsored by Svend Foyn) steered for the Royal Company's Islands "supposed to be situated in about lat.

142 E.[4]" They searched for a couple of days, but met with gales.