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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Radio Hams first to discover disappearance of Sandy Island
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Daily Mail newspaper notes that radio amateurs first reported Sandy Island didn't exist over 12 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It seems that although Sandy Island appears on Google maps, world maps and marine charts mid-way between Australia and New Caledonia it doesn't in fact exist.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Daily Mail newspaper refers to a story by Richard Chirgwin that appeared on The Register. It says the hams in question reported that they sought Sandy Island in 2000 because its existence would have disqualified the
Chesterfields from being a worthy DXpedition location. Its existence “was one of the key issues in determining whether the Chesterfield Islands qualified for addition to the DXCC List as another new entity,”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Read the Daily Mail Story at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2237499/How-reliance-satellite-images-led-mystery-South-Pacific-island-wasnt-there.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Read The Register story at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/22/undiscovered_sandy_island/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TX0DX 2000 Sandy Island Bulletin <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.n4gn.com/tx0dx/16.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The TX0DX bulletin refers to photographs of the Sandy Island area taken from the Space Shuttle that used to exist on the website of Jarmo Jaakola OH2BN, at the present time they don't seem to be there, see
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<p class="MsoNormal">http://www.kolumbus.fi/oh2bn/<o:p></o:p></p>
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