Buss Island is a phantom island. It was discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the Emmanuel and was put on maps as existing between Ireland and mythical Frisland at about 57° N. The island was named after the type of vessel that its discoverers used, a busse. It is believed that Frobisher took Greenland for Frisland and Baffin Island for Greenland and the Emmanuel, returning home, made a mistake in dead reckoning and mistook optical effects near Greenland at around 62° N for a new land.
A Thomas Shepard claimed to have explored and mapped the island in 1671. As Atlantic traffic increased the island's existence was less certain and its supposed size was greatly reduced. In 1745 it was suggested that the island had 'sunk' as the supposed area was relatively shallow. The island or 'site of sunken island' persisted on charts into the 19th century.
Brendan, a sixth-century Irish monk, was said to have discovered the islands that came to bear his name on a seven-year voyage that may have been a religious fantasy.
Johnson also tells of the tantalizing searches for Frisland, BussIsland, the Isle of Seven Cities and Hy-Brazil, a foggy green isle off the west coast of Ireland that was eyed as a midway station for trade to the Orient.
From the Isle of Demons, born of a fable invented by pious Christians, to the elusive BussIsland, the creation of an ambitious explorer, these places of the imagination are a fascinating legacy of a bygone age.
BussIsland is a phantom island believed to have existed in the 16th century.
There are busses both within the CPU and connecting it to external memory and peripheral devices.
Some processors have internal busses which are wider than their external busses (usually twice the width) since the width of the internal bus affects the speed of all operations and has less effect on the overall system cost than the width of the external bus.
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