Case file · Folklore / legend
Antillia, the Isle of Seven Cities
A large rectangular island called Antillia appears in the mid-Atlantic on Zuane Pizzigano's chart of 1424, linked to a legend that seven Iberian bishops fled there from the Moors in 714 and founded seven cities.
1424 CE · 31.00, -40.00 · status: legend
The account
Portuguese sailors searched for it, and Columbus expected to pass it. Its name survives in the Antilles of the Caribbean.
The sceptical view
A phantom island; it may reflect garbled news of real islands or simply hope.