In
Robert Shea and
Robert Anton Wilson's
Illuminatus! trilogy, the
small island of Fernando Poo is almost the
cause of the
end of the world when the
United States, the
USSR, and
China all decide that their
opponents are getting ready to
invade the island. Of course,
none of them is getting ready to
invade -- it's all a
fiendish plot of the
Illuminati.
Now known as
Bioko,
the island formerly known as Fernando Poo is part of
Equatorial Guinea and is located about 21 miles off the
coast of
Cameroon. You didn't realize it was a
real place, did you?