Laputa
（重定向自Laputan）
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![Gulliver discovers Laputa, the flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville)](/Images/godic/202501/23/Laputa_-_Grandville5849.jpg")
![The Queen of Laputa, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s)](/Images/godic/202501/23/Willmann,_Colin,_&_Outhwaite,_the_Queen_of_Laputa,_cph.3b189065850.jpg")
Laputa is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is about 4.5 miles in diameter, with an adamantine base, which its inhabitants can maneuver in any direction using magnetic levitation.