List Of Continents
The Second Life main grid is composed of isolated sims (islands), groups of sims and continents. A continent is a group of more then 30 sims (see Continent for more details). What doesn't match this definition is a Subcontinent, a Microcontinent or a Sim Cluster. Different autors have found a different number of continents. It is also important to remember that every day about 20 new sims are created, moved or changed their names (see [1] for more info). So, the shapes and even the numbers of continents might change in time. An older map can be found at this link: [2]
Mainland continents
In alphabetic order, the Linden owned continents:
1. Blake Sea
2. Corsica
3. Gaeta 1
4. Gaeta 5
5. Heterocera
6. Jeogeot
7. Nautilus
8. Premium East (see Premium Continents)
9. Premium South 1
10. Premium south 2
11. Premium south 3
12. Sansara
13. Satori
14. Sharp Continent
15. Zindra
Notes:
- Nautilus and Satori are linked together and form a megacontinent (like Euroasia in real world).
- Blake Sea is sometimes considered a continent, sometimes a subcontinent.
- There are private-owned sims in Blake Sea and Eastern Sansara (Islands).
- Many mainland continents are linked with a Transcontinental Channels, like Sansara-Heterocera, Nautilus-Blake Sea, the two Corsica-Nautilus passages and Corsica-Gaeta 1.
Private continents
In alphabetic order, these continents were identified in September 2013:
2. Eden
5. Fairchang
10. Wild West
Notes: Another continent (No Access Continent) existed until July 2013. Private continents sometimes have multiple names, depending on who made their maps.
The private continents can be divided in two main groups: tropical estates (Eden, Estate - only parts of it, Fairchang, Irish-Bonaire, Uhre Continent) and not tropical (part of Estate Continent, Shopping Continent, Wild West). Only Caledon-Winterfell, Estate Continent, Shopping Continent and Wild West have a large piece of dryland, all the others are formed of sea and islands.
Comparation to Earth
The position of Second Life mainland continents is a bit similar to that of the continents onf Earth, but in mirror. The old world (Europe, Asia and Africa) form a group and the new world (the two Americas) form another block. Sansara and Heterocera form together a group and they are linked together with a tiny channel. They are in fact the old world of Second Life. Jeogeot is in South and was the third continent. It might be considered like Africa. The new world might be considered the Gaeta 1, Nautilus, Corsica, Blake Sea and Satori, only that they are in East, not in West. Satori looks a bit like South America and the South islands of Nautilus might look like Central America with its islands.
Oceans
Many private sims are not linked in large groups to form a continent. The majority are isolated sims, while some of them form larger islands, with 2 to 29 sims. Even if they form important features on our map, the oceans containing these sims are not named in an official way. See Oceans for more info.
Groups of sims smaller then a continent are listed in List Of Microcontinents And Sim Clusters.
Additional information can be found at Second Life Geography and Grid Map And Dimensions