History Main / TravelingLandmass

* The 51st state of Ar, or Hoqhoq as they prefer to be known, according to [[TheAreasOfMyExpertise John Hodgman]]. It's inhabited by shapeshifting thunderbirds.

* Seastar Island from the 1967 ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' movie. (It's based on a similar island from the novel ''[[Literature/DoctorDolittle The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle]]''.)

* Spider Monkey Island from ''The Voyages of Literature/DoctorDolittle''. Explained as a freak volcanic bubble during island formation creating a huge air pocket to serve as a float. When the rock at the top of the volcano drops down it punches a hole in the bottom to fix the island in place.

* A Saturday morning cartoon called ''WesternAnimation/NoahsIsland''; a polar bear called Noah travels around the world on a floating volcanic island, picking up lost, ostracised and endangered animals and trying to get them to live in harmony. ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' [[XMeetsY meets]] [[Literature/TheBible Noah's Ark]] [[RecycledInSpace on a mobile island!]]

* The island of Leshp from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' which is a giant pumice dome that gets filled up with gas, rises to the surface, floats around a bit, then sinks again every couple of hundred years after causing a war or two.

* The Children's Book ''Dinosaurus Klex'' takes place on two floating islands that broke from the ancient supercontinents Gondwanaland and Laurasia. On the islands, time flows differently, which is why today, dinosaur prince Klex is still searching for his princess on his adventures. The floating islands are steerable in a limited way, and are naturally inhabited by dinosaurs and extinct/endangered species.[[/folder]]

* Lutari Island in {{Neopets}}.

* MarvelComics has Krakoa, ''The Island that Walks Like a Man!!!'' And to a certain extent Spragg, the Living Hill.

* Quofum, a planet in the ''HumanxCommonwealth'' universe, has an annoying habit of not being there when one goes to look for it. It turns out that the entire planet is some kind of dimension-hopping starship.

* The island of Destral, home base to the [[EvilutionaryBiologist Brotherhood of Makuta]], in ''{{BIONICLE}}''. It moves due to utilizing dimensional portals.

* Seastar Island from the 1967 ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' movie. (It's based on a similar island from the novel ''The Voyages of Literature/DoctorDolittle''.)

* Seastar Island from the 1967 ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' movie.

* Seastar Island from ''The Voyages of Literature/DoctorDolittle''. Explained as a freak volcanic bubble during island formation creating a huge air pocket to serve as a float. When the rock at the top of the volcano drops down it punches a hole in the bottom to fix the island in place.

A landmass (usually an island) that is always on the move, making it difficult to find. Because of this, it's thought to not exist by most people, until one of the main characters finds it.

** As a consequence, island ''chains'' can appear to "travel" as the suboceanic crust slides across the seabed. Individual islands erode away as new ones crop up from volcanic activity, but the overall effect is a constant conveyor-belt "flow" of islands spread out in whichever direction the seabed is moving.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'': [[BlueBeetle Kooey]] [[ComicBook/BoosterGold Kooey]] Kooey isn't ''always'' on the move, but sometimes it decides to wander for a bit.

* The Island from ''{{Lost}}'' is constantly moving, thanks to a strange pocket of mystical energy.

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* The Island from ''{{Lost}}'' is constantly moving, thanks to a strange pocket of mystical energy.
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* [[ClassicalMythology Greek myth]] gives us the floating island of Delos, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

* [[spoiler:Candied Island]] in ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''.
* A Saturday morning cartoon called ''NoahsIsland''; a polar bear called Noah travels around the world on a floating volcanic island, picking up lost, ostracised and endangered animals and trying to get them to live in harmony. ''TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' [[XMeetsY meets]] [[Literature/TheBible Noah's Ark]] [[RecycledInSpace on a mobile island!]]

* Phantom islands - islands which were reported to exist on maps, but which don't exist - have been noted for centuries. While most of these vanished by the early 20th century, Sandy Island, a purported possession of France, persisted until the 1970s, when it was noted by the French to be nonexistent. However, it had been entered into the World Vector Shoreline Database, and because it was frequently used by scientists, it persisted in maps until 2012, when an Australian ship sailed through the purported position of the nonexistent island and submitted new data. The island was then stricken from all maps. This was a strange example because the nonexistent island had persisted on maps long after satellite imagery revealed there to be no island at that location.

** [[WorldOfWeirdness Strange-things magazine]] ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' (FT297, February 2013) has an article about the strange case of the Pacific atoll Sandy Island, nominally halfway between Australia and Frence Caledonia. It has appeared on maps since the middle 1800's, and its existence was confirmed to the extent that it appears on Royal Navy sea-charts. It also appears in the Times Atlas of the World and even Google online maps list it. Its ownership is not disputed - it belongs in perpetuity to France as an overseas dependency. The only problem is - it has disappeared. An Australian Navy surveying ship reported nearly 5,000 feet of sea where the island was reported to be. Puzzlement has been expressed.
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* in ''TowerOfGod TOG'' the forest wherein walkhaiksong HQ is located can be transported as Urek Mazino's SpaceCompression power. Multiple shineuh (heavenly god fish which look like space whales are speculated to be this trope. The sea cow on the 21st floor was able to contain [[spoiler: Urek for long enough a time for him to be deemed a problem on the floor]]. Since TOG is such an expansive universe it's been said that there could be islands like this.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'': [[BlueBeetle Kooey]] [[BoosterGold Kooey]] Kooey isn't ''always'' on the move, but sometimes it decides to wander for a bit.

* in [[spoiler: TowerOfGod TOG]] the forest wherein walkhaiksong HQ is located can be transported as Urek Mazino's SpaceCompression power. Multiple shineuh (heavenly god fish which look like space whales are speculated to be this trope. The sea cow on the 21st floor was able to contain [[spoiler: Urek for long enough a time for him to be deemed a problem on the floor]]. Since TOG is such an expansive universe it's been said that there could be islands like this.

** Strange-things magazine Fortean Times (FT297, February 2013) has an article about the strange case of the Pacific atoll Sandy Island, nominally halfway between Australia and Frence Caledonia. It has appeared on maps since the middle 1800's, and its existence was confirmed to the extent that it appears on Royal Navy sea-charts. It also appears in the Times Atlas of the World and even Google online maps list it. Its ownership is not disputed - it belongs in perpetuity to France as an overseas dependency. The only problem is - it has disappeared. An Australian Navy surveying ship reported nearly 5,000 feet of sea where the island was reported to be. Puzzlement has been expressed.