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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:10 AM
    Mysterious Island based on what real Earth place?
    I saw a special recently on a place that Jules Verne supposedly used for descriptions of Mysterious Island. I can't find it googling... Does anyone know the place? I only remember that it started with an R.

    Thanks
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:15 AM
    PS. I am NOT speaking of Ernest Legouve Reef. I am speaking of a remote place where there are formations with sheer cliffs and flat tops. It was a place, I believe, discovered in the 18th or 19th century.
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:44 AM
    I've been googling for some time now and can't find it... couldnt be any of the following could it?

    Rangitiki
    Roca Island
    Rocabarraigh
    Rupes Nigra
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:46 AM
    Thanks alk. but none of the above. I'd remember it if I saw it... I hate it when something like this bugs me. I'll be googling all day on it now until I find it :o
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:48 AM
    Lol I'm the same way. great question though. Will give me something to ponder. Those islands were just phnatom islands, so I took a chance... ill keep looking
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:53 AM
    List of islands by name: Information from Answers.com
    This may help, but I doubt it...
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:57 AM
    I do not believe that the place is an island... and it's starting to come to me... something like Roraima.

    ... back to googling.
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:58 AM
    Lol OK good luck I was searching for islands...
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    Jul 6, 2007, 08:59 AM
    That's it dead on!

    Roraima.
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    Jul 6, 2007, 09:01 AM
    It is a curious coincidence that the geographical location of the Mysterious Island is almost exactly that of Ernest Legouve Reef, which appears to be a phantom island.

    --Taken from here: The Mysterious Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Jul 26, 2007, 04:40 AM
    The special was on again this past week. It was on the Travel Channel... called "The Real Lost World"... about Roraima.

    I remembered it wrong. It was the basis for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, not Jules Verne's Mysterious Island.
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    Jul 26, 2007, 05:04 AM
    Verne's L'Ile mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island, 1875) because they have undersea cities--"submerged islands"--that, according to the author, "suggest an aftermath to Twenty Thousand Leagues, since they have a kind of 'after-the-Nautilus-what' premise where events seem an outgrowth of Nemo's advanced science" (134).




    I think your answer is in Twenty Thousand Leagues

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