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Re: how big is the Isle of Mist?
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Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:00:13 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, James Howse writes:
> And the isle, (assuming most of the bits under fog are isle) is somewhere
> around 550 km across. Which makes it compareable to New Zealand's South
> island. (Except South island isn't round, more a diagonal line, tIoM has a
> larger area). Or to put it another way, about half the size of Madagascar,
> the island off the east coast of Africa.
Hmm, wow, that's quite large, but actually I thought it was bigger! Hmm.
Interesting.
> Assuming tIoM is on an earth sized planet, 550km, would be enough to give
> the East-West coast about an 10 minutes difference in sunrise (i.e
> approximatly one-sixth of a time zone across).
Well.... do you even know that Castle World is round? Who knows? It may be
flat... in fact I think it would even be fair to assume it is, since it has
no limits. But I am only making a guess - with no more info to base it on
than you have.
<snip>
> James (who enjoyed geography at school)
<grin> I can tell!!
-Shiri
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| (...) Bigger? If one were to grab baseplates and make tIoM in real life it'd be over sixteen and a half kilometers across! Even a acre is pretty large, clocking up 32 metres across. (For the series, a realm is around a kilometre and a bit)(1) Even (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| (...) And the isle, (assuming most of the bits under fog are isle) is somewhere around 550 km across. Which makes it compareable to New Zealand's South island. (Except South island isn't round, more a diagonal line, tIoM has a larger area). Or to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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