St. Matthew Island (phantom island) and H.C. Adams (1883) suggest that the error may have arisen from a confusion with Annobón Island, which lies at the same latitude but at 5°38′E longitude. St. Matthew Island (phantom island) St Matthew Island is a phantom island once thought to lie roughly one thousand kilometers northeast of Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. It appeared on navigational charts until as late as the early twentieth century. It was supposedly located at approximately 2°S 8°W, and was alleged to have been discovered by the Portuguese on St. Matthew's Day 1516. It was shown and named on several maps going
In the Penal Colony the Explorer prepares to leave by boat, he repels the efforts of the Soldier and Condemned to come aboard. Frank Zappa, in the liner notes of the Mothers of Invention album "We're Only in It for the Money", recommends reading the short story before listening to the track "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny." Ian Curtis of the band Joy Division was inspired by "In the Penal Colony" to write the song "Colony" from the album "Closer". The novel "The Shadow of the Torturer", by Gene Wolfe, follows the exploits of a member of a guild of torturers. At one