Headscratchers / Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

• Between the fact that there's apparently a category 5 hurricane just hanging around somewhere off the coast of Palau (and nobody on the island seems to care too much about that,) and the fact that there's all sorts of satellites overhead that might be interested in taking a look at what's going on in there, it doesn't seem like the Mysterious Island would stay mysterious for all that long, would it? Oh, and you'd also think one or two of those satellites would be equipped with spectrometers that might take notice of a giant gold-spewing volcano...
• Conventional ham radio does not use satellites; signals may however be skipped off the ionosphere.
• How does one steer a giant untrained bee?
• Maps are optional features in most books.
• Verne's Nautilus did not have torpedoes (Nemo sinks his shipping by ramming), and Professor Arronaux was light on the details of the submarine's controls. And batteries do not work like that.
• Sean is in high school, and clams to have straight A's. Why doesn't he know about latitude and longitude cordinates, then?
• How are there living land-animals on an island that spends long stretches of time underwater?
  • The mid-credits Stinger answers this one by revealing that the tiny elephants (and presumably, every other animal on the island) possess gills for breathing underwater.