Not only is it a chunk of Europe the size of the British Isles, shallowly submerged to the point where only three bits of its ever break the waves, but it has a strange geological history and a stranger folk history.

Rockall was apparently known to people by 1200 AD, and probably earlier, considering the vikings were running all over the north atlantic and reaching America. It's not a far stretch to say that one of their voyages may have gone off course in a storm and they wrecked on or saw Rockall Island. It was rediscovered (despite being on maps, few people really knew it existed) in the 1600s by a fishing boat, and was later used as a survey point for the Translatlantic telegraph cables. The Irish and Scottish fables both tell of one Rockabarra that will appear three times, the third of which will signal the end of the world. It "appeared" twice now, but now that it is on a map I doubt the fables will mean much now.

But if we look at it on google earth (assuming [they] are not lying about the existence of this thing) it looks like an island that should have been. Almost like a Middle Earth. A far-off place impossible to reach but still igniting the imagination by the very thought of it's existence.

Comms, perhaps? White or black hat? Just my autism?