Jeogeot

Jeogeot map in 2013

Jeogeot is one of the mainland continents. It was first made as a Corean continent. However, today the population comes from worldwide and the most spoken language is English. Coastal regions are more populated, while in other, central regions (mostly in sims without road and water access) there are many abandoned parcels. In the North-East corner, two sims are missing. They existed in early maps.

Jeogeot is a transition continent. It is the third historical mainland continint. The first two, that can be also called The Old World, Sansara and Heterocera, have a high Geographic diversity, many types of ground textures and a complex transportation system. The continents built after Jeogeot, that might be called The New World, have a much lower Geographic diversity (a tendince for plains and low plateaus), less complex ground textures and a less developed trnsportation system. Jeogeot is somewhere between these two groups. The presence of some large plains in South make it look closer th the second group of continents and the percent of abandoned land is similar to that of the new world. The lack of geographic and historical data might also place Jeogeot into the second group. On the other hand, the isolated mountains in sims like Somerset and Gorbash and the Ichelus volcano make at least parts of the continent look similar to the old world continents.

History

First sims of this continent were built in december 20th, 2005. The first part was the Northern island, then the continent expanded to South. The construction halted for a few months (spring 2006), until the South-Western part was started. In that peroid of time, the Eastern part of Sansara was built. A second stop was in spring 2007, when the continent still had the central sims unfinished (in this time, Nautilus and Satori were built. The last sims were added in march 19th, 2008. It is unknown when Jeogeot lost the two sims in North. A timeline evolution of the continent is available here: [1]

Geography

Jeogeot Geography

Jeogeot has hills, plains and mountains. Also, the shores are of two types.

Plains are common along the coast. They are usually low altitude plains (up to 20 meters above sea level). Unlike the plains in Gaeta 1 and Gaeta 5, the altitude grows slowly from coast to continental center. Usually, the shores are smooth, with many polders (artificial islands). The low altitude helps the residents on the coast to terraform their land and build islands or channels. Many parcels are abandoned. The ex-owners used to terraform their land and still the terraforming gives obstacle (like walls and holes) to a trveler.

Hills are common in the center of the landmass. The islands in North and West have sills in their center. The hills are low, they are not an obstacle for a traveller. The main obstacle remains the old terraforming on abandoned land. Many abandoned parcels are in an advanced state of degradation. When the declivity is high, the abandoned land is made of small terraces. Usually, the hills have lightly greener ground texture then the plains. Also, sometimes the separation line between hills and plain is marked by some abrupt hills. The Rason Lake is a canyon fill with a lake. A road passes just on the bottom of the lake, through a glass tunnel.

Mountains are usually isolated. The continent has some isolated peaks, easy to be climbed. Usually, the texture is similar to that of the hills. The declivity is usually of 30% and the mountains (except Ichelus-Zebrasil) are not protected land. Zebrasil-Ichelus is the only exception. The Ichelus volcano is probably the highest peak in Jeogeot, even if it is close to the sea. The nearby sims have the most spectacular landscape in the whole continent.

Ocean floor is covered with sand and small slops. Oceanic vegetation is also present. The water is not deep. Inner lakes are at the same level with the sea.

Geographic features are not worked with so much attention to details like in Sansara and Heterocera, but they are more carefully worked then those in later continents.

The coordinates are shown in sims, in the same way they can be found for every sim from Gridsurvey [2]. The numbers are in this format: longitude (min - max) / latitude (min - max). Unfortunately, even if Jeogeot is the 3rd continent built, there is not a description with its geographic subdivisions. The Second Life Wikia (see link below) only describes 3 very small regions (Kantvanochtend, Baiivanochtend and Sleutelvankerk), in the North-East corner of the continent, leaving about 80% of the continent undivided. For Geographic reasons, the continental surface is split into some subdivisions, as seen below:

Continent: 1007-1039/897-938

Central Sea (Zebrasil): 1018-1023/908-917

North-West Island: 1014-1021/915-922

North Island: 1030-1038/933-938

Northern Peninsula: 1025-1039/922-932

Northern Sea Channel: 1022-1023/917-921

East Landmass: 1024-1036/910-921

South-East Landmass: 1024-1035/897-909

South Landmass: 1018-1023/898-907

South-West Landmass: 1007-1017/898-915

Statistics

Size in sims:775 (North-South 43, East-West 36)

Size in meters: 50.79 square km (167.97/9.22 km)

Maritime sims (complete flooded): 36

Coast sims (water access): 308

Dryland sims (no water): 431

Sims with road access: 251

Sims without direct access: 205

Population density: med-low

Transportation

Jeogeot has some roads that form a continental network. Navigation is also possible along the coast and also air transport is possible. However, 26% of the sims have no road or sea access and those sims are the most uninhabitated. A second way of ground access is by walking on abandoned land parcels.

Useful links

http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Jeogeot - Second Life Wikia about Jaeogeot

Jeogeot Network

[3] - pictures

[4] - airports

[5] - Ichelus volcano

List Of Continents

Second Life Geography