🏝️ Bermeja: The Island That Vanished — Was It Erased to Protect the Globe Lie?
By The Flat Earth Journal | June 2025

THE ISLAND THAT WAS THERE… THEN WASN’T
GULF OF MEXICO — On maps from the 16th to the 20th century, a small island appeared just north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It was called Bermeja. Spanish explorers mapped it. Mexican naval records referenced it. It was there.
But today… it’s gone.
Search the area by satellite or sonar, and you’ll find nothing but open water. Not even a reef. No sunken land. No trace.
So what happened to Bermeja?
OFFICIAL NARRATIVE: “MAPPING ERROR”
Government sources — particularly from Mexico and the U.S. — claim Bermeja’s disappearance is due to old cartographic mistakes.
In 2009, the Mexican government launched an expedition to confirm the island's existence, hoping to claim valuable oil rights linked to its coordinates.
But Bermeja wasn’t there. And the oil rights were handed over to the United States under the “Hoyo de Dona” treaty.
Convenient, right?
FLAT EARTH THEORISTS CALL FOUL
Flat Earth researchers don’t buy the “mapping error” excuse.
“How do you mistake an entire island for 400 years?” asks Enrique Sosa, an independent researcher.
“This isn’t a misplaced palm tree. This is a mass deletion of real geography.”
They believe Bermeja may have been strategically removed from public record because of what it represents — a challenge to the tightly controlled globe model.
A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX MAP
Flat Earth theorists propose that Bermeja once sat near a sensitive boundary on the flat Earth plane — possibly near a fault line in the military’s restricted zones.
Some believe it was not removed, but cloaked, using advanced light-bending technologies (like those allegedly used in the Bermuda Triangle and Antarctica).
Others believe the island may have been a monitoring post, used to watch the Gulf before being decommissioned — and its presence scrubbed.
WHY IT MATTERS
Bermeja’s disappearance isn’t just about lost land. It raises deeper questions:
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Why did maps for 400+ years include this island?
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Why did only modern satellite-based maps suddenly lose it?
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Why did its disappearance conveniently support oil treaties and geopolitical gains?
And more importantly…
How many more islands have been erased because they break the spherical illusion?
CONCLUSION: A Censored World?
Flat Earth supporters argue that Bermeja joins a growing list of “phantom islands” — landmasses that were once publicly acknowledged and then systematically removed.
From Hy-Brasil to Sandy Island to Bermeja, they say the evidence points not to poor cartography, but to deliberate map manipulation — to preserve a version of the world we’re forced to accept.
“The question isn’t if Bermeja existed,” Sosa concludes,
“It’s why they needed us to forget it.”