[WikiEN-l] Porchesia

[Neil Harris]

David Mestel wrote:
> I'm pretty certain it's a hoax - there's no mention of it in the CIA
> world factbook entry for Lebanon, and a Google search gives no
> relevant hits.
>
> https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Porchesia+-wikipedia&hl=en&lr=&rls=GEUA,GEUA:2005-47,GEUA:en&as_qdr=all&start=10&sa=N
>
> On 01/10/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> I have posted this to foundation, but for those who do not know--
>>
>> Today I deleted the article [[Porchesia]], which was created on November  23,
>> 2005, i.e., 10 months ago. The article described an island off the coast of
>> Lebanon with a population of over 300,000. The languages are Arabic, Greek,
>> and  English.
>>
>> I will gladly restore the article when someone finds me one source  verifying
>> the facts of this article. You might start by finding Porchesia on a  map.
>>
>> Danny
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It's also not in the NGA GEOnet Names Server 
<http://www.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html> dataset.

-- Neil