Re: Con-geography question: can anyone help?

Thomas Leigh wrote:

I'd envisioned a north Atlantic island (which mysteriously
> does not seem to appear on any of our maps! :-) as the Rozhen homeland,
> and according to the notes I found it lies between Iceland and the
> Azores, somewhere between 40°-50° north latitude, and between 20°-30°
> west longitude, and its size is "around half the size of Iceland", which
> would make it around 50,000 square km.
In that particular Lat/Long. "square", the Mid-Atlantic ridge runs N-S
approx. in the western one-third (looks like between 46-50°W), so if you
located the island along the ridge, it could well be volcanic. My map is not
a really detailed map of the ocean*, but it does note a point, approx. 43N,
28+W, where the depth is marked "51" (whether fathoms or meters I can't
determine.) Perhaps that's where your island is or was or will be.....

(Azores, of course, are approx. 37N, 28W; not directly on the Mid-Atl.
Ridge, but slightly to the east on top of a subsidiary ridge). I think the
Azores benefit from a southern branch of the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic
current-- the northern branch benefits Iceland, England/Ireland and
Scandinavia IIRC**-- so it's possible that your island could too, and have a
climate not unlike that of the Azores.

I think volcanic soils are supposed to be quite fertile, especially if
there's a warmish climate. Too many active volcanoes might put a crimp in
things, however.

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*In: Rand McNally's "The International Atlas", 1969
**Google isn't very helpful concerning exactly where the Gulf Stream goes
after it turns into the N. Atlantic.
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