Is this map a hoax or could it be Atlantis?

In September 1578, while sailing near Greenland’s southernmost
point at Cape Farewell, captain James Newton of the Emmanuel
recorded in his log the first sighting of an island “seeming to be
fruiteful, full of woods, and a champion countrie.” The island came to
be known as Buss, after the type of boat that discovered it – the
Emmanuel being a short, two-masted herring buss. And despite its
non-existence, Buss Island appeared on nautical maps of the area
well into the 19th century, making it one of the more persistent of the
many phantom islands that once dotted maps of the North Atlantic.

The existence of Buss Island was first made public in a book written
by George Best in the same year of its discovery, called A True
Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discouerie for Finding of a
Passage to Cathaya by the North-Weast, under the Conduct of
Martin Frobisher, Generall. It appeared on the Molyneux globe
(1592) and a Plancius map (1594), and was again spotted in 1605
by James Hall, albeit in a different place from where he expected it.
No matter: Buss Island continued to make regular map
appearances, was deemed as real as Frisland (another fabrication
since disproved – and mentioned earlier on this blog) or Greenland
(which still exists). It was sighted again in 1668 by Zachariah Gillam,
captain of the Nonsuch (sic).

The 1671 claim by Thomas Shepherd, captain of the Golden Lion, to
have visited, explored and mapped the island extensively, led to an
royal charter and an expedition aimed specifically at Buss.
Shepherd’s description was tantalisingly precise (this map by John
Seller, from 1673, details Shaftesbury Harbour and  Arlington
Harbour and a small, outlying Shepherd Island, among other
illegible data). But of course, the elusive island would only reveal
itself to sailors not looking for it, not to those who sought it out. This
stubborn refusal to be found, coupled with an increase of
transatlantic traffic, caused the presumed size of Buss Island to
shrink and later its very existence to be questioned. Eventually, it
was presumed the island had ’sunk’, a theory that reconciled the
earlier, incontrovertible eyewitness reports with its obvious absence.

It took another Arctic expedition to also put the sinking theory to rest.
In 1818, the Isabella, captained by John Ross (and still looking, as
Frobisher had been, for the Northwest Passage) established that
there were no shallows in the area proposed for Buss’s sinking.
Ironically, Ross himself mistook a North Atlantic mirage for dry land,
naming it “Crocker Hills”; the controversy of their either-or-not-
existence would later dent his reputation (which was later redeemed
by his discovery of the magnetic north pole, and the heroic, 4-year
expedition during which he made it).

Only in 1856 would Buss Island disappear from the last nautical
charts, the rich potential of its existence finally yielding to the
disappointing reality of its un-discovery. The only mysteries
remaining are what might have been mistaken for Buss Island:
mirages? Parts of Greenland? Lies or delusions to make a dreary
North Atlantic trip more interesting?

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