![]() According to the Star-Advertiser, "the coffee is named after a character in 'Moby Dick' (Captain Ahab's first mate)." However, "both the fictional first mate and the real captain came from Nantucket, where Starbuck was a family name in the 19th century." Shipwrecks There's no relation between Starbuck Island and the Starbucks Coffee Company. The island is reportedly "famous for its shipwrecks." "The guano was mined for phosphate in the 19th century," the newspaper reported. In 1823, it was discovered by a Nantucket sailing captain named Valentine Starbuck. It has seabirds, a green turtle nesting area, sharks, and manta rays. The island measures about eight square miles and rises only 15 feet above sea level. It's located 336 miles south of the equator and 2,000 miles south of Honolulu, Hawaii. According to the videos, the only trees on the island were palm trees "planted by long-gone workers." Starbuck Island HistoryĪccording to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Starbuck Island is part of the Line Islands in Kiribati. National Geographic also posted a second video to show the outcome of the problem presented in the first clip. One of the camera angles seen in the video can be compared to a satellite picture to confirm that it does, indeed, show the dwellings. Enric Sala and "members of the Ocean Now team becoming stranded on Starbuck Island during an on-shore excursion." At the 0:36 mark in the video, old dwellings are visible near the beach, explaining the Google Earth mystery. In 2009, National Geographic published two YouTube videos about Dr. While the jokes may have been funny and the video was slightly mysterious, the answer was less than thrilling. Others joked that maybe it was a Starbucks Coffee location. One of the TikTok users who responded to the Starbuck Island Google Earth video joked that it showed the Millennium Falcon from " Star Wars." Another person remarked: "That's how they delivered pizzas in the old days."Īdditional guesses from commenters included Noah's Ark, a rock, a UFO, a Blockbuster Video, and an old runway from World War II. The video was viewed more than 5 million times in just two days. ![]() There appeared to be a road or trench-like path that led to some sort of object or man-made structure.
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