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Question: Mysterious Island discovered with google earth

craniac — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:17:54 -0800

My son (nine) came across this unnamed, triangular island with airstrips and buildings using google earth. It's quite small, and almost artificial looking, like a built-up atoll. We're pretty sure they've got aliens there. KML file enclosed.

Here's the .kml file. saving it as "island.kml" and loading it into google earth will take you to the place. Any idea what this could be?

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

Mysterious Island
found by Ez. contains airstrips and buildings. No
name.

153.9978322929042
24.27748121655243
0
15000.62622620575
1.271969904759559e-010
-69.27344461285261

root://styles#default

153.9800917503093,24.28713057141308,0

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:26:35 -0800

You mean this?

By: evariste

evariste — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:31:03 -0800

Your kml doesn't work on Google Earth on Mac.

By: evariste

evariste — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:32:36 -0800

Ah, never mind. MeFi mungled it.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:33:27 -0800

I think it's Minami Torishima. I found it in its guise of Marcus Island here in the PCL map collection.

By: sergeant sandwich

sergeant sandwich — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:41:46 -0800

grouse is right!

By: rob511

rob511 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:19:01 -0800

And at the other end of the "manmade atoll" continuum, here's Atlantis.*
*aka Male, Maldives (Indian Ocean)

By: craniac

craniac — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:13:58 -0800

Wow, cool image!

By: skrike

skrike — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:39:35 -0800

for the life of me I cant get the kml file to work. I viewed the source and copied all the xml tags that you cant see on the page but it still gives me a parse error line 1.