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Designing the Islands; I need your sweet, sweet ideas.
Topic Started: Sep 29 2014, 04:26 PM (2,030 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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Galopagos has many people on it, and a sizable amount of invasive species. That won't be a good thing for the Anisian islands imo
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Yeah, I think it being owned by France or England until some time when they are declared international territory, with the only permanent residents being scientists.
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Can I name the islands north of Isa the Lahud Island Chain as well? I came up with a species native to those islands.

Also, Lahud means seaward in Proto-Austronesian.
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As I said in the Skype chat I actually like the idea of France and the UK having claim over different parts of the archipelago, so we could have French and British place names, with a few others (Dutch? Maori?) sprinkled around too...
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Oct 14 2014, 04:56 PM
Can I name the islands north of Isa the Lahud Island Chain as well? I came up with a species native to those islands.
We do have to name them all eventually, I guess.
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So here is the near-finished biome map of the archipelago:

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If any of you wish for any changes say so now or it'll stay the same.
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Oct 15 2014, 03:15 PM
So here is the near-finished biome map of the archipelago:

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If any of you wish for any changes say so now or it'll stay the same.
Make a distinction between the various rainforests, such as temperate and subtropical.
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Here is the archipelago altitude map:

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The white dot at the top is that extinct caldera and the cracks on Dusa is the ravine/canyon.

Same thing; if you want changes, tell now.
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I named all the islands in the Lahud Island Chain.

Moana (northmost island, means ocean in tahitian, and is named so for it being the northmost island in the archipelago)

Māfatu (south of moana, means heart in tahitian, and is named so for being near the middle of this chain of islands)

Fatata (south of Māfatu, and is the closest island to Isa, this word means near in tahitian, and is of course, named so for being one of the closest islands to Isa)

'Atatu (East of Fatata, and means right in Tahitian. It is named so for being the most eastward island in this chain)
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I probably shouldn't double post, but, how deep is the deepest lake in the archipelago?
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