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>>I heard this item on the news yesterday. One thing (apart from the obvious) seemed odd:
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>>They say it shows up on Google Earth - which I thought was entirely based on satellite or aerial images ?
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>I thought it may have been a junk island floating there at the time they took pictures, or an oil dump.

What, exactly where the island had been shown on charts ?