I think there should be another event when searching an island - a Transporter/Hurricane.
If you get this, it would say something like:
"As you're searching for gold, the wind picks up and before you know it you're in the eye of a hurricane."
It would be awesome if the entire game window turned into a graphic of hurricane and then it redirected in 5 seconds back to the game window.
At the top, where the status is it would read something like:
"The hurricane carried you a long way, and you were safely dropped at 30 N 48 W"
Basically it could act as a transporter.
It could be a hurricane, tornado, whirlpool, or a tropical storm or something.
I think it would be cool, it would be great if you were running away and you got it.
I think that it should be very rare, and it would help make the game more exciting and event full.
Or if you decided, you could make it fairly common, and this would be a great way to throw off mappers.