Many years ago, being an explorer was the best job in the world.
The perks were obvious months at sea, far from loved ones with a good chance you might starve to death.
But these days there's no such thing as an explorer. And what do you want to be when you grow up? An explorer.
Well you can't cos of Google Earth. Satellite technology was the death of discovery as new aerial images could be used to perfectly map every inch of ter… Hang on, what was that? What was what? Go back a bit. But it's just ocean. There, that black smudge.
Something in the sea has been censored. Oh my mistake, this is the pre-2012 Google Map.
In the up-to-date one, it's just empty ocean. Wait, that's an even bigger mystery! It's time to do some research.
I've just read a Wikipedia summary of this incredibly boring book and it turns out this is the location of an island discovered by Captain Cook in 1774.
Cook was sailing in the South Pacific doing what he did best - looking out for land either small enough to be a crash hazard or big enough to colonise.
And he succeeded, successfully spotting a small and previously unknown sandy island.
In a say what you see naming tradition befitting a man associated with Australia he named it Sandy Island.
