# Anson Archipelago

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{{Short description|Phantom islands in the North Pacific}}
The '''Anson Archipelago''' was a designation for a widely scattered group of purported islands in the Western [North Pacific Ocean](/source/North_Pacific_Ocean) between [Japan](/source/Japan) and [Hawaii](/source/Hawaii). The group was supposed to include [Wake Island](/source/Wake_Island) and [Marcus Island](/source/Marcus_Island), as well as many [phantom islands](/source/phantom_islands) such as [Los Jardines](/source/Los_Jardines), [Ganges Island](/source/Ganges_Island), [Rica de Oro](/source/Rica_de_Oro), and [Rica de Plata](/source/Rica_de_Plata) (the latter two sometimes referred to as Roca de Oro and Roca de Plata).<ref>{{cite book | last = Stommel | first = Henry | title = Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts | publisher = University of British Columbia Press | location = Vancouver | year = 1984 | isbn = 0-7748-0210-3 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/lostislands00henr/page/ xvii, 105ff] | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/lostislands00henr/page/ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tuckey |first=James Hingston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzhjAAAAMAAJ |title=Maritime Geography and Statistics ... |date=1815 |publisher=Black, Parry & Company |language=en}}</ref>  The archipelago was named after [George Anson](/source/George_Anson%2C_1st_Baron_Anson), who seized Spanish navigational charts of these waters during [his voyage around the world](/source/George_Anson's_voyage_around_the_world).

As time passed, it turned out there were   no islands west of [Kure Atoll](/source/Kure_Atoll) (Ocean Island until the 1920s) until reaching Japan. To the east and north of what was alleged to be Anson is the [Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain](/source/Hawaiian%E2%80%93Emperor_seamount_chain), the eastern portion of which form the real Hawaiian island chain.

An 1855 German map showing the Anson Archipelago|frameless
An 1883 Belgian map showing the Anson Archipelago|frameless
An 1891 German map showing the Anson Archipelago|frameless
A {{Circa|1914–18}} Australian map showing the Anson Archipelago|frameless

==See also==
* [Pedro de Unamuno](/source/Pedro_de_Unamuno)
* [Chryse and Argyre](/source/Chryse_and_Argyre)
* [Byer's Island](/source/Byers's_Island)
* [Mid-Pacific Mountains](/source/Mid-Pacific_Mountains)
* [List of islands in the Pacific Ocean](/source/List_of_islands_in_the_Pacific_Ocean)
* [Phantom islands](/source/Phantom_islands)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-fabled-ghost-islands-exist-only-in-atlases National Geographic article discussing ghost islands (2022)]

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Category:Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
Category:Cartographic errors
Category:Islands of the Pacific Ocean
Category:Phantom islands

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