BBC Geography Error?

9 comments

Is it just me, or is there an error in this story from the BBC?

(Original story here.)

Written by Ben Curtis

April 2nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm

Posted in General

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9 Responses to “BBC Geography Error?”

  1. Katie

    2 Apr 08 at 10:22 pm

    considering madeira is part of portugal, i’d say yes!

  2. Graham Tappenden

    3 Apr 08 at 7:54 am

    I just clicked on the link and they’ve changed the title to “UK cruise ship is held in Madeira”.

  3. José Miguel

    3 Apr 08 at 8:19 am

    - De donde eres?
    - De Madeira.
    - ¡coño! como Pinocho.

  4. hellothere

    3 Apr 08 at 8:32 am

    Yay! Spain finally got a new island! Cool! :D

    Qué gracia el chiste, José Miguel :)

  5. Mark

    3 Apr 08 at 9:18 am

    Looks like someone at the BBC has got out their World Atlas and corrected the mistake! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7327411.stm

  6. Pepino

    3 Apr 08 at 9:27 am

    I’m glad you’ve posted this, as I read the report on the BBC yesterday and was tearing over each word in the report to see how they could justify Madeira as being Spanish. It’s not like the Beeb to get their facts wrong afterall! :-) Thanks for confirming it was a mistake afterall and clearing up my curiosity!

  7. Mark

    3 Apr 08 at 10:41 am

    @ Pepino:

    Well I was thinking that someone in their "Humour Dept.” was one day out for April Fool’s Day. It’s would have been slightly more assuming than their flying penguins story! However at least it gave their CGI people an opportunity to do a nice flying penguin animation. Good to see the license fee going to good use!

  8. Mark

    3 Apr 08 at 11:25 am

    Talking of mistakes, I meant to say "more amusing than their flying penguins story”.What is it about spotting typos the second after pressing the "Send Button”!

  9. saiguanas

    4 Apr 08 at 10:15 am

    maybe they got the info from the Royal Marines. I watched a video not long ago that showed them storming a beach in Spain and then quickly getting back in the boat when they realized that it wasn’t Gibraltar. :)

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