El Ojo

This article is about a circular floating island in Argentina. For articles related to "eye", see Eye (disambiguation).
El Ojo
Aerial view of El Ojo island
El Ojo is located in Buenos Aires Province
El Ojo
Location in Buenos Aires Province
Geography
LocationParaná Delta
Coordinates34°15′08″S 58°49′48″W / 34.25222°S 58.83000°W / -34.25222; -58.83000
Area13,924 m2 (149,880 sq ft)

El Ojo (lit. 'The Eye') is an uninhabited circular rotating floating island located within a slightly larger circular lake in the Paraná Delta in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.[1][2]

Description

The island is unique among floating islands as its shape is almost perfectly circular.[3][4] As the island is constantly rotating on its own axis due to the flow of the river beneath it, shearing occurs around its outer edge, eroding the island into its circular shape, similar to ice disks.[5][6]

The island is currently approximately 118 m (387 ft) in diameter, but it is expected to get smaller over time with erosion. It is not yet known how or when the island was formed, with the first known Google Earth imagery being dated 2003.[7][8]

The island was named because of its resemblance to an eye when viewed from above: as the island rotates within its surrounding circular lake, the eye appears to move.[9][10] The island has been compared to a similarly shaped and rotating floating ice disk phenomenon observed in the Presumpscot River near Westbrook, Maine.[11][12]

El Ojo was discovered in 2016 by Argentinian filmmaker Sergio Neuspiller[13]. Research has shown that the island has existed at least since 2003. In 2016, Neuspiller and hydraulic engineer Ricardo Petroni started crowdfunding an expedition to the island, hoping to perform scuba diving, drone data collection, and soil and plant analysis; however, their fundraising attempts failed, reaching only US$9,898 of their US$50,000 goal. On 10 October 2016, Kickstarter eventually declared the fundraising campaign unsuccessful.[14]

References

  1. ^ "El misterio de la isla argentina 'que se mueve'" [The mystery of the Argentinian island 'that moves']. El Observador (in Spanish). 2016-09-18. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  2. ^ Sascha Pare (2024-11-15). "El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina's swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye". livescience.com. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  3. ^ Fernández, Maximiliano. "El Ojo: la isla circular que se mueve sola en el Delta del Paraná" [El Ojo: the circular island that moves on its own in the Paraná Delta]. Infobae (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  4. ^ Vizzi, Florencia. ""El ojo", la misteriosa isla del Delta que esconde extraños enigmas" ["The eye", the mysterious island of the Delta that hides strange enigmas]. Diario Digital Conclusión (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  5. ^ "La isla del delta que no deber a existir: se llama "El Ojo" y tiene una historia misteriosa" [The island of the Delta that should not exist: named 'El Ojo' and has a mysterious history]. El Cronista (in Spanish). 2022-03-21. Archived from the original on 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  6. ^ Baños Pozzati, Malena (2016-09-08). "A ilha que se move sozinha na Argentina" [The island that moves by itself in Argentina]. Clarin (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  7. ^ Porjolovski, Alejo (December 2016). "¿Fin del misterio?" [End of the mystery?]. DIA 32 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  8. ^ Wiemeyer, Federico (2020-01-08). "El ojo misterioso: una isla en el Delta donde suceden cosas extrañas" [The mysterious eye: an island in the Delta where strange things happen]. Todo Noticias (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  9. ^ "Una isla circular que rota sobre sí misma conmueve a la comunidad científica" [A circular island that rotates on itself moves the scientific community]. www.infofueguina.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  10. ^ Márquez, Enrique (2016-09-15). "El secreto del misterioso círculo del Delta al descubierto" [The secret of the mysterious Delta circle revealed]. InfoVeloz.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  11. ^ "El Ojo". ETA BETA Magazine (in Italian). 2021-04-30. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  12. ^ Danielle, Monica (2022-01-17). "Incredibly cool, spinning ice disc is back and drawing onlookers again". AccuWeather. Archived from the original on 2023-09-06. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  13. ^ Pare, Sascha (November 15, 2024). "El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina's swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye". Live Science. Archived from the original on February 13, 2026. Retrieved April 22, 2026.
  14. ^ Guillen, Marina (2016-09-18). "El misterio de la isla argentina 'que se mueve', objeto de una investigación" [The mystery of the Argentine island 'that moves', object of investigation]. El Nuevo Herald (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-09-07.

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