Category: Places that could not be found

The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

Agloe, New York – Invented at an empty crossroads to catch mapmakers copying maps. It is said to have become real; the evidence that it did is one postcard.
The Counter-Earth – A tenth planet, placed where nobody could see it. Nine bodies were visible, ten is the perfect number, and the Pythagoreans made up the difference.
The Mountains of Kong – A range invented in 1798 to rescue a theory about the Niger. It crossed West Africa on forty maps for ninety-four years. Nobody had ever seen it.
Neith – A moon of Venus, reported some thirty times between 1645 and 1768 by observers including Cassini. Every sighting has since been matched to a star.
Null Island – 0°N 0°E, where there is no island. It was named, and given a square metre of land, so that data which failed to locate would land somewhere visible.
Reuelsee – Bavarian lake (Ǔ ≈ 4.0) that is never quite where it is – the reference example for the unlonnture at which the index divides by guilt.
The Telluric Athenaeum – Latitudinarian athenaeum (est. 1849) that honoured every cosmography equally, converted no one, and was indistinguishable, in its records, from its keeper.