What is a Fata Morgana?
Fata Morgana Land 1938 to search for the supposed island, but found no trace of it. The non-existent island was named Fata Morgana Land, after a type of mirage common in polar regions, on the assumption that the land reported sighted at its location was actually Fata Morganas of Tobias Island (), a barren, rocky island to the south. The position of Tobias Island, roughly from the north-eastern coast of Greenland, was determined with accuracy only in 1993. Fata Morgana Land Fata Morgana Land () was a phantom island in the Arctic. It supposedly lay between north-east Greenland and Svalbard, at the northern
Fata Morgana (mirage) from afar, sometimes seen to be glowing with ghostly light. One of the possible explanations of the origin of the Flying Dutchman legend is a Fata Morgana mirage seen at sea. A Fata Morgana superior mirage of a ship can take many different forms. Even when the boat in the mirage does not seem to be suspended in the air, it still looks ghostly, and unusual, and what is even more important, it is ever-changing in its appearance. Sometimes a Fata Morgana causes a ship to appear to float inside the waves, at other times an inverted ship appears to