Misteriosa Bank

The Misteriosa Bank is a submerged bank or atoll in the Caribbean Sea, located at – approximately equidistant from Mexico, Honduras and Cuba.

Geographical data

The Misteriosa Bank is long and wide. Its area is. Immediately south of it is Rosario Bank. The closest piece of land is the Swan Islands, Honduras, to the south and separated from it by the more than Cayman Trough. The reported depth is on the average or up to, with depths of along the rim, or. It is part of the Cayman Ridge.
It is part of a cluster of seamounts of the Cayman mountain range contained in Honduras.

History

The bank was first reported by Spanish navigator Tomás Nicolás de Villa in April 1787.
In the 19th century, Charles Darwin mentioned the Misteriosa Bank as an example of the sharply descending coral reef in his book Coral Reefs:
Currently, a buoy has been anchored to the seabed of this feature. It appears to have been claimed by the Principality of New Utopia. The placing of the buoy was filmed by a German film crew and broadcast by Arte television on satellite. New Utopia maintains no state claims and wants to build a form of micronation on top of it, using concrete blocks.