Have there been any cases where people or explorers have gone missing because their map had false information?

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I'm looking for information on this for a school project.


Thank you!Have there been any cases where people or explorers have gone missing because their map had false information?
A good example is the quest for the Northern Passage (to China and Japan). The explorers were certain it was possible. But they didn't have the maps to support it. They had to discover the routing as yet.





Many tried. Henri Hudson was one of them. Willem Barentsz is the best known Dutch explorer. He tried to sail north of Russia. Got stuck on Spitsbergen, wrecked his ship. The crew survived, but they had to survive the winter there too. They build from the remains of their ship a wooden hut ';Het Behouden Huis';. Survived the winter, and returned next year in open sloops south. They were picked up by Dutch traders on the way to Murmansk.





Part of the Dutch history curriculum. Pretty interesting and exciting story as it is.Have there been any cases where people or explorers have gone missing because their map had false information?
Following their Mutiny against Captain Bligh on HMS Bounty in 1789, the Mutineers decided to settle on Pitcairn Island. This was because they discovered that on their charts - and therefore all Admiralty charts - Pitcairn Island had been marked in the wrong location.





This meant the inevitable Royal Navy search for the mutineers was never going to find them;arriving at the charted position of Pitcairn Island, any ships would just find empty ocean, so the mutineers would be safe on Pitcairn Island. (their descendants still live there today).





So, they didn't so much go missing,as hide out, on Pitcairn Island due to faulty information on British Admiralty maps.
The best case of someone going missing because of a false map was King Baldric VI of Lithuania. In 1346 he was purposely misdirected by someone using a false map, which led him to an enemy ambush. He only had a modest body guard of about 200 soldiers and a dozen knights. The history channel did a short clip on it. I found it on youtube. Here's the link.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-o鈥?/a>