It Was There On The Map In The 1500's

and also as late as 1941, Mexican Islands, a book published in 1946 by the country’s Institute of Geography, the longitude and latitude of it are given on Google Earth and in a CIA atlas, however, Mexican expeditions sent to it in the past decade have been forced to return home without a glimpse of it, what is it? the island of Bermeja, why so important? if it is there it gives Mexico huge oil revenues, if it is not the revenues go to the USA, Mexican legislators fighting a rearguard action in favour of the island’s existence have been dealt a blow after a land and air search of the region: a report to the Mexican Congress by the National Autonomous University of Mexico concluded that “the island does not exist”, Mexico’s hunt for Bermeja has been given urgency by BP’s announcement last week of a big find in the Gulf, the latest in a series of discoveries that has turned the area into one of the oil world’s most promising exploration regions, some have scented skulduggery on an epic scale and conspiratorially minded Mexican nationalists have seized on the mystery as an opportunity to bludgeon America, a standard reflex when things go wrong south of the Rio Grande, as an aside some time ago some one mentioned on a Saturday afternoon a new field had been found, 300 square miles at an average depth of 120 feet, a lot of revenue I guess, Elias Cardenas, chairman of the parliament’s maritime committee, said there were four more possible sites where the island might lie, He called for more studies before Mexico and America formalise the next drilling agreement, “Right now, the big fight is for oil,” he said, He did not believe the United States had bombed the island, as some have suggested, Others took a different view, “There is no doubt the gringos are behind this,” wrote Marco on a nationalist website, “Let’s not forget that they stole California.”