The island

One island, 100 miles long and 50 wide, shaped like a kidney bean round its Gulf, with everything the settlers will ever use somewhere on it. 47 named places, each with its distance from the Landing and the achievements that depend on it.

The island is a painting. The names, the signs, the River and the railway are laid over it from the list below, so the two always agree. Open the map as a picture.

South: the Gulf and the settled country (miles 0 to 46)

Place	What is there	From the Landing	On foot	By boat	What it serves
South Cape	A low rocky point: the southern end of the island	36.2 miles south	3 days	four days by canoe, round the south-west head	—
Cotton Flats	Dry grassland with wild cotton, flax and hemp	15 miles south	a day	—	08.47 Cotton field 03.15 First planted crops
Black Pool	The oil seep, on the south shore of the Gulf: tar pools and hardened sheets, bones in the tar, oil sand beneath	13.1 miles south	a day	a day by canoe along the shore	02.27 Bitumen from the oil seep 11.34 Drilled oil well 11.35 Oil still
Gypsum Beds	White gypsum in low banks behind the salt flats	11.1 miles south	a day	—	04.32 Gypsum plaster
Salt Flats	Tidal pans that dry to a white crust in the warm season	9.7 miles south	a day	half a day south by canoe	03.06 Salt
Cane Swamp	Wet lowland east of the southern hills, with wild sugar cane, bananas and palms	17 miles south-east	3½ days	—	08.39 Sugar cane field
Herd Plain	Open grass with cattle, horses and deer in herds	8.2 miles south	half a day	—	03.18 Animal pens and captured young stock 03.20 Tamed riding and pack horses 08.03 Trained draught animals with yoke, collar, harness and iron shoes
River Mouth	The estuary of the River: reed beds, clay banks, wildfowl	5.9 miles south	half a day	two hours south by canoe	04.02 Clay pit and prepared clay 04.11 Fired bricks and roof tiles
Iron Marsh	Bog iron ore under the peat of the river marsh	4.2 miles south	3 hours	—	06.02 Mined and roasted iron ore
White Dunes	Clean white sand	3 miles south	2 hours	an hour south by canoe	11.01 Glass furnace and melted glass
River Plain	Deep soil between the River and the bay: the first fields	2.6 miles south-east	2 hours	—	03.14 Cleared and hoed garden plots 08.09 Rotating grain fields 08.39 Sugar cane field 08.47 Cotton field
Southside	The second settlement, a mile south of the first	1 miles south	45 minutes	—	03.28 Two settlements and one common ground
Common Ground	The evening fire and the long house, later the store and the offices; the work ground lies beside it, toward the shore	0.5 miles south	20 minutes	—	03.29 The common ground 04.01 The work ground 03.31 Communal long house 07.41 The common store
Landing Bay	A sheltered bay with a stony shore: the tide trap, later the jetty and the harbour	0.5 miles south-west	20 minutes	—	01.17 Tidal stone fish trap 02.26 Dugout canoe and paddles 07.47 Timber jetty
Landing	The first camp: a shelf above a bend in the brook, with a hill at its back	here	—	—	01.01 Base camp site 03.28 Two settlements and one common ground
The Rocks	Reef and skerries off the bay: the best fishing	1.6 miles west	an hour	twenty minutes by canoe	02.14 Bone and shell fish hooks with line
Camp Hill	The wooded hill behind Landing, with the spring that feeds the brook, and the lookout	1 miles north-east	an hour	—	03.35 Spring box and covered water point
Quarry Hill	Limestone in beds, sandstone slabs at its foot, shell banks on the shore below	2.3 miles north-east	2 hours	—	04.14 Lime kiln and quicklime 07.31 Stone quarry and dressed blocks 02.04 Sandstone grinding slab
Flint Cliff	A white chalk cliff with bands of flint, flint cobbles on the beach below, and red and yellow ochre in the bank	2.5 miles north-west	2 hours	half an hour north by canoe	01.03 Sharp stone flake 02.01 Knapping kit 02.28 Resource map of the island
Bat Caves	Limestone caves with deep floors of bat earth	3.8 miles north-east	half a day	—	07.33 Saltpetre
Weed Banks	Kelp and red seaweed on a rocky shore	5.3 miles north	half a day	an hour north by canoe	11.60 Iodine and iodine tincture 13.30 Culture dishes, seaweed jelly and warm cabinet
Oak Woods	Oak, ash and hickory on the hills between the bay and the Falls	6.2 miles north	half a day	—	08.01 Bark-tanned leather 08.35 Iron-gall ink and bound books 07.21 Barrels, buckets and tubs
Coal Ridge	A coal seam in the hillside, with fireclay under it, ironstone in the shale and alum shale above	8.5 miles north-east	a day	—	10.01 Coal mine 10.02 Firebrick 10.03 Coke 10.09 Pig iron 08.27 Dyes and alum mordant
The Falls	The River drops forty metres off the high country: the site of the mills, the furnaces and the power station	8.8 miles north-east	a day	—	09.06 Overshot water wheel 09.10 Water-powered sawmill 10.08 Blast furnace 15.23 Hydro-electric station at the falls

Middle: the high country (miles 46 to 76)

Place	What is there	From the Landing	On foot	By boat	What it serves
Glass Rock	An old lava flow at the shore, with black volcanic glass and basalt boulders	11.7 miles north	a day	a day north by canoe	02.03 Stone knives, scrapers and engraving points 02.07 Ground stone axe head
Pine Slopes	Pine and cedar on the west range	13.1 miles north	2½ days	—	04.20 Wood tar and pitch 11.11 Turpentine and rosin
Slate Gap	Roofing slate, and black manganese ore in the same pass	13.4 miles north-east	2½ days	—	14.19 Switchboard 14.32 Dry cell 15.01 Bulk steel converter
Tea Slopes	Wet eastern slopes with wild tea, coffee and hops	26.5 miles north-east	5½ days	—	08.20 Tea garden, coffee bushes and hop yard
Copper Hill	Green and blue copper ore at the surface, brassy pyrites below	16.8 miles north-east	3 days	—	05.03 Fire-set open-cut mine 05.05 Smelted copper 08.35 Iron-gall ink and bound books
Iron Mountain	Red iron ore, and black lodestone that pulls a needle	17.8 miles north	3 days	—	07.09 Lodestone and magnetic compass 06.02 Mined and roasted iron ore
Rubber Coast	The rain forest of the wet east: rubber trees, bamboo, hardwoods	35.9 miles north-east	7½ days	four days round South Cape under sail	08.38 Raw rubber sheet 01.12 Bamboo cups and water tubes
Tin Stream	Heavy black tin gravel in the stream bed, with grains of native platinum	23.6 miles north-east	4 days	—	05.08 Smelted tin 14.24 Incandescent lamp
Granite Tor	Granite with white clay, quartz and feldspar, and veins of tungsten ore	25.6 miles north-east	4½ days	—	11.08 Porcelain 10.28 Tungsten tool steel 14.45 Tungsten metal
Grey Vein	Lead ore that carries silver	24.2 miles north	4½ days	—	05.25 Smelted lead 05.26 Silver
Calamine Bank	Zinc ore beside the lead	26.4 miles north	4½ days	—	10.25 Brass 11.26 Zinc metal
Antimony Lode	Grey needle ore of antimony	28.9 miles north	5 days	—	11.47 Antimony
Wheat Uplands	Cool open slopes of the west range: wheat, barley, potatoes, apples	27.1 miles north	3½ days	—	08.09 Rotating grain fields 08.19 Orchards, vines and grafted fruit trees
Red Earth	Red clay ore of aluminium on the wet eastern foothills	36.7 miles north-east	7½ days	—	15.46 Aluminium by electric current
Snow Peak	The highest point of the island, with snow in the cool season	32.4 miles north-east	6 days	—	—
Serpentine Ridge	Green rock with nickel ore, asbestos and emery	34.1 miles north	6 days	—	11.48 Nickel and resistance alloy 11.43 Asbestos and mica insulation 11.42 Graded abrasive powders
Mica Crags	Sheets of mica, and graphite in the schist	38 miles north	7 days	—	14.43 Varnished cloth and pressed mica sheet 11.46 Graphite products
River Head	The springs of the River, in the long valley between the two ranges	37.8 miles north	6½ days	—	—

North: the fire country (miles 76 to 100)

Place	What is there	From the Landing	On foot	By boat	What it serves
Dry Lake	A basin in the rain shadow, with a white crust of soda	47.2 miles north	4 days	three days by canoe, then three miles inland	11.21 Soda ash
Red Rock	Hot springs, and red mercury ore in the rock beside them	51.2 miles north	6½ days	—	11.14 Mercury
Sulphur Vents	Steaming vents crusted with yellow sulphur	51.1 miles north	9 days	—	07.32 Refined sulphur
Burnt Mountain	The quiet volcano	52.3 miles north	9½ days	—	—
North Cape	The far end of the island	63.3 miles north	a fortnight	five days by canoe	15.30 Radio receiver