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A fact from Island of the Jewel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This really has almost nothing to do with what he was talking about.
For the curious, 2°N173°E / 2°N 173°E / 2; 173 would roughly site this island at Charlotte Island in the Gilberts (Kiribati) if it were in any way equivalent to the modern system. It's not, though, and we shouldn't give a {{coord}} template for it without some source that goes through the trouble of explicitly adjusting al-Khwārizmī's prime meridian, circumference of the earth, units, and degree length to their modern equivalents. — LlywelynII 00:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
is given separately, although this could simply be a phantom duplication along with/instead of a first go at Formosa, Java, &c. This Italian source records "Huen-tsang" (Xuanzang)'s report that "Seilan" (Ceylon) used to be known as "Ratnadvipa", which he glossed as "island of jewels". — LlywelynII 00:43, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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