El Kadsre (legend)

El Kadsre (or Elkadsre - not related to the Spanish word for “the”) was a legendary island made of gold in Pikelandic Yupik folklore, which spread to Russian and later Japanese folklore. When Japanese colonial explorers first sighted a landmass between Micronesia, Westerly, and North America, they assumed it was the legendary El Kadsre. As a result, a continent became known as El Kadsre, which was later adopted as the name of a country within that continent.