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When a ''very'' large number of people, a whole fleet, an entire city, or even a whole planet, is sent to another place, another time, or another dimensional plane.
A Mass Teleportation through time is more specifically referred to as an ISOT (acronym for ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'', a novel by [[
The phenomenon may be deliberate, but is usually [[Freak Lab Accident|accidental]], [[Hand Wave|unexplainable]], or the work of an [[Alien Space Bats]]. When an ISOT takes place on a small scale, the victim is [[Trapped in The Past]].
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* In ''[[Dune]]'', the Spacing Guild heighliners are enormous starships that instantly travel anywhere by folding space. They are described as so large that an entire planet's population and all of their equipment will take up only a small portion of the cargo space.
* In the [[Orson Scott Card]] novel ''[[Enchantment]]'', a 747 is magicked in flight back to pre-Medieval Russia.
* Long before the story begins in ''[[
* The ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' novel ''The Ellimist Chronicles'' has [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|the Ellimist]] move the entire Earth halfway around its orbit to keep [[Evil Counterpart|Crayak]] from destroying it.
* The [[Charles Stross]] novella ''Missile Gap'' is about the citizens of Earth dealing with the planet being transported to a flat disk millions of miles across during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Entire planets get teleported around the universe with disturbing regularity in ''[[
** The titular world of the Fourth Doctor adventure "The Pirate Planet" teleports itself around other planets so as to more easily strip-mine them dry, while pretending that the mineral deposits are the world's own mines.
** Earth and several other worlds being stolen by the Daleks at the end of [[Continuity Snarl|thirtieth/fourth]] season.
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* Ben moves the whole island in the fourth season of ''[[Lost]]''.
* ''[[The 4400]]'': people are abducted individually at various times and places throughout the 20th century, but all 4,400 of them get teleported back simultaneously to the same location.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. Although actually an example of an [[Faster
* ''[[Voyager]]'': The entire starship Voyager is transported inside the Voth's city ship in one episode.
** This is also the premise of the series.
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