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Designing the Islands; I need your sweet, sweet ideas.
Topic Started: Sep 29 2014, 04:26 PM (2,034 Views)
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This is what the islands currently look like, there are three main ones with the largest on top and two smaller ones underneath. A healthy sprinkling of much smaller islands surround them.

This the thread where we shall:

- Decide the placement of the biomes and overall climate of the archipelago (within reason).

- The exact appearance of the islands (their shape, position and number of them).

- Points of interest for the islands.

- Their names (the three (or more depending on what we decide) main ones require names now, smaller ones can be maintained on a need-to-know basis). One word names are strongly suggested.

- Anything else you want to suggest.




Currently what has been strongly suggested for the islands:

- A subtropical climate from the top to a temperate climate at the bottom (an average cold of -10c was suggested by me).

- A maximum of 4 main islands (main island on top).

- A combined area just over Hateg Island (I'm thinking of raising the total area to 85 000 square kilometres to maybe allow for animals reaching 1.5 tonnes).

Please comment on as much as you can below.
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Please no human introduced species.
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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High mountains would be nice. Then you could get cloud forests. And pseudo-gorillas.
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So how long until we fully formulate the island? I can't wait to get working on some of the creatures.
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After this we only have one more pre-development thread to go (deciding on the vertebrate fauna) and then we can get this shindig started.

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So.... when would be a good time to end this thread? Should 4:00pm EST (approximately 18.5 hours from now) tomorrow be a good time? (If no one says no then I'll assume it's a good time)
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A nice large lake, like Monster said, would be nice. Maybe it has connection to the sea.
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I don't really know about the drier/wetter biomes on the sides thing entirely, but I'll still factor it in as much as possible.


It is pretty simple. If you have a mountain chain, you can have a side in the rain shadow and a side with much higher precipitation. So if the mountains run north -south, the western side will be much wetter and more humid . This doesn't mean that the dry side is necessarily going to be a desert, however. This is the case for the UK actually - the west coast is much wetter, more humid, has a form of temperate rainforest present, but the east coast is pretty far from being arid!
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I'm honestly not a great fan of islands with volcanic origins, as they generally don't last long and their geography is constantly changing. Moreover, only a hot spot could create an island which got close to land three times, as opposed to "regular" volcanism between two plate borders.
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I don't really know about the drier/wetter biomes on the sides thing entirely, but I'll still factor it in as much as possible.


It is pretty simple. If you have a mountain chain, you can have a side in the rain shadow and a side with much higher precipitation. So if the mountains run north -south, the western side will be much wetter and more humid . This doesn't mean that the dry side is necessarily going to be a desert, however. This is the case for the UK actually - the west coast is much wetter, more humid, has a form of temperate rainforest present, but the east coast is pretty far from being arid!

Yeah, that was pretty much my reasoning for that.
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Just suggest stuff. There's no thread for a list of contributing members. Everyone can do it.
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Maybe there could be a large non-active volcano in the north of Isa, with a huge crater that has it's own microclimate and even some endemic species, like some volcanoes in Papua/New Guinea.
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Would there be low lying areas of the island close to the sea? Those could harbor very interesting mangrove swamp ecosystems.
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Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
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Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Mangroves would have to be on the northern coasts of Isa, because it wouldn't be warm enough elsewhere.

EDIT: There could still be some estuaries in more southern regions, though. Just no mangroves.
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For me everything in terms of climate is okay. I'll change my animals to the climate you create though some sort of misty forest would be nice to have
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Mangroves would be nice, yes.
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