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The only large islands in 52ºS latitude were the as then undiscovered Falklands / Malvinas, but Vespucci's description does not fit the Falklands, whose low-lying coasts are full of coves for shelter and are not " wild ".

3 April is not winter but the first month of autumn and a night of fifteen hours duration implies a mysterious shift of the sun: furthermore sailors would not find the cold intolerable at that season of the year in 52ºS.

The suggestion of aberrant conditions accompanying a fierce storm is typical of a number of phantom islands, particularly Saint Brendan's Island.