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.
Geography
The continent is placed between Sansara and Jeogeot, close to the grid center.
The vrious 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.
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.
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.