Estate Continent
Estate Continent is the result of some private estates' growing. They grow in the last years until they united into a large group of sims. The sea nearby is the Estate Sea.
Geography
The continent is placed between Sansara and Jeogeot, close to the grid center.
The various sims are full region and homestead. The geographic features vary form oceanic plains and islands to hills and small mountains. They are usually connected by a large network of road. The cosmic sims have the only highway in Second Life. Also, there are many internal seas, channels and other navigable routes. Almost all the sims work on Second Life Server channel.
Estate Continent is linked to a Sim Cluster.
Statistic Data
Main continent:
Size in sims: 147 sims (North-South19, East-West24)
Size in km: 9.63 square km (4.86/6.14 km)
Sea sims (complete flooded): 0
Coast sims (water access): 115
Land sims (no water): 32
Sims with road access: 76
Sims without direct access: 1
Continent + connected islands:147+96=243 sims = 15.92 square km
Population density: med-high
Subdivisions
Some of the sims are grouped and share a common name: Miriam (North-West), Lorena (North-Midwest), Surreal (North). The sims in South share a cosmic names: Alpha Centauri, Triangulum or Titania. Central sims are united in a compact large island. Eastern sims are composed of islands (many of them are homestads), while the sims in South-East are dryland.
There are a lot of islands in south, linked to the continent only on diagonal. From a geographic point of view, they are not part of the continent, but their economy is usually linked to that of the continent. Together, these islands form a sim cluster.
Coordinates
The coordinates are in sims, the same way they can be obtained from Gridsurvey [1] for every sim. The coordinates are made to read this way: longitude (min - max) / latitude (min - max).
Overall coordinates: 974-1009/944-975
- Continent: 974-997/957-975
- Miriam: 974-977/962-966
- Surreal: 977-981/964-968
- Cosmic Sims (on the highway): 981-990/963-965
- Cosmic Sims (South-West): 978-982/959-963
- South-Est Sims: 985-992/957-962
- Cosmic Sims (South-East group): 990-994/963-964
- East Homesteads: 991-997/965-968
- Central Land: 984-991/966-970
- Lorena: 984-988/971-975
- Connected islands:980-1009/944-964
- Cosmic Sims: 995-1003/957-962
- South Islands: 980-989/948-958
- South-East Islands: 990-1004/944-956
- Staging sims (no access): 1006-1009/960-964
Economy
There is a vast diversity of places. Roads and waters are protected land, while on land there are both residential parcels and shops.
The Estate Continent is developing fast. The number of sims has grown since 2010 and is still growing. A new sim was added from July 1st to July 30th, 2013.