Aurora Islands

thumb|1808 map of South America showing "Isles of Aurora"

The Aurora Islands was a group of three phantom islands first reported in 1762 by the Spanish merchant ship Aurora while sailing from Lima to Cadiz. The officers of the Aurora reported sighting them again in 1774. The Spanish ship San Miguel fixed their location at 52°37'S, 47°49'W.

General and cited references

• Gould, Rupert T. (1944), "The Auroras, and Other Doubtful Islands", in Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts, revised ed., Geoffrey Bles, pp. 124–162. Reprinted by Kessinger Pub Co., 2003, .
• Ramsay, Raymond (1972). No Longer on the Map. Ballantine Books, pp 78–80.
• Royle, Stephen A. (2001). A Geography of Islands: Small Island Insularity. Routledge .
• Stommel, Henry (1984). Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 84–97. .