GEOGRAPHY Scientist Unravels Mystery of Ghostly Sandy Island A research ship cruised through the Coral Sea, bearing down on Sandy Island. The digital scientific databases used by the researchers showed the island to be 24 kilometers (15 miles) long and about 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. Manhattan-sized. But when the ship reached the place where the island should have been, the researchers saw only open … Continue reading Scientist Unravels Mystery of Ghostly Sandy Island