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Byers Island

Byers's Island
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About Byers Island

Byers's Island is a phantom island reported by Captain Benjamin Morrell in his 1832 book A Narrative of Four Voyages.

On the show

When he came back and he had a particularly uneventful trip, he had to sex it up somehow. He invented Byers Island — that was one of his claims. That's where the wheels started coming off.

from No Such Thing As Fluff Island, 2016-11-04 at 00:08:28 · read transcript

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Coordinates: 28.5333, 177.0667

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