GENEVA — Mapmakers at the International Commission for Maps and Clocks reported yesterday that they had finally updated their charts to include a small desert isle in the South Pacific.

Although the island appeared on no known navigational charts, it was located directly in the center of a strong underwater current. In the decades since the island was first reported, at least seven ships have been wrecked there. Curiously, it has also been the final resting place of several pieces of space debris.

The island was finally added to the charts in the same update that added another island just a few miles to the south, Fantasy Island.

The chart update occurred due to a sighting by the crew of the cruise ship Pacific Princess. The ship was on its way to, in the words of the ship's purser, "get rid of Charo once and for all," when chief bartender Isaac Washington noticed the desert isle off the starboard bow. Pointing to the previously-unknown island with both hands and wearing a smile, Mr. Washington said, "I was waiting for that really old couple to finally realize that they loved each other, and my mind started to wander. And then there it was!"

Tragically, the island's discovery came too late for seven shipwrecked victims. Navy investigators reported that they had apparently lived for years with no phones, no lights, and no motorcars. Their single luxury was, oddly enough, an olympic-sized croquet lawn.