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
Macquarie Harbour Penal Station - Being an account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour and Sarah Island" furthers understanding of the history and the recent archaeological work on the island. The films "The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce" and "Van Diemen's Land" deal with one of the more notorious escapees. 3 September 1830 five men ran away from the settlement, Richard Hutchinson, William Coventry, Patrick Fagan, Mathew Macavoy, and Broughton, and that they were upwards of thirty days before the two 'survivors' surrendered themselves at Macguire's Marsh near Osterley. Macquarie Harbour Penal Station The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement,