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

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.

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

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

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

List of islands by name: Information from Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-islands-by-name)
This may help, but I doubt it...

I do not believe that the place is an island... and it's starting to come to me... something like Roraima.

... back to googling.

Lol OK good luck I was searching for islands...

That's it dead on!

Roraima (http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&um=1&hl=en&q=roraima&btnG=Search+Images).

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island)

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.

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