The whalecatching ship Aurora discovered 1726 some islands between the Falklands and Southgeorgia in the south Atlantic. The group of islands was named Aurora after the ship. The individual islands were mapped, documented and given names at the end of the 18th century by the captain of the ship Atrevida. In the 1820īs several attempts were made to return to the islands, but at their position was there at that time nothing more than the open sea. Since then have the islands not been located.
Source:
Guinness Book of World Records, 1998
Translation: Manke
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