The Isles Between 8 and 9

by Chris Wayan, 2006

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First-time orientation--strongly advised! Pegasia is weird.

Orbital photo of the Isles Between Continent 8 and Continent 9 on Pegasia, a world-building experiment.

This modest archipelago does not contain, as the map might suggest, 89 islands; the name on the map is just shorthand suggesting their location, and placeholder for a native name that depends on who discovers the place! The chain may be an important bridge between continents--hemispheres, in fact. It's over 900 km from Continent 8, and another 640 south to Continent 9; but it's about the best bridge between them. It may be the way intelligent fliers spread from the main continents of the Inner Hemisphere, to the north, via Continent 9 to the Outer Hemisphere (right half of world map).

But it's almost as plausible that people will spread the other way. Hard to say at this point. Unlike our Old World and the New, these Pegasian hemispheres aren't all that unequal in size or resources... Map of Isles Isles Between Continent 8 and Continent 9 on Pegasia, a world-building experiment.

The islands aren't as small as they look. The largest is about 400 km long (250 mi). Their climate is warm and wet (they're only a few degrees south of the equator). Even the smallest islets are covered with luxuriant rainforest. Equally rich coral reefs surround the islands and extend hundreds of km southeast and west.

These aren't flat coral atolls, however; they're the exposed tops of the ridges flanking a mid-oceanic rift, where new crust is spreading. Land in the making! On Earth, few rift zones emerge onto land, and hot mineral springs and vulcanism happens miles down; but Pegasia's shallower seas often have island chains down the middle, the the spreading process takes place under the sun.

Thus, many of the islands are quite rugged; nearly all have mineral springs, many have hot springs, and some have volcanoes, though hot mud and pillow lava are more common than violent eruptions.

Map of Pegasia, a world-building experiment. Click a feature to go there.
TOUR PEGASIA! Survival tips first, then click on a region to go there! List of the major regions (only numbered now):
Continent 1 - 165 Is. - Continent 2 - Continent 3 - Rift-Junction and Curl 9 Is. - 1-4 Is. - Continent 4 - Continent 5 - Curl 5 Is. - Continent 6 - Continent 7 - Continent 8 - 89 Is. - Continent 9

The gazetteer: will have a full index of native placenames, with descriptions--once the contests's over and we have natives to name them.


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