Re: Con-geography question: can anyone help?

Thomas Leigh:
> Greetings,
>
> There are such knowledgeable people on this list, I figured maybe
> someone here could help me. I was cleaning out a box of old papers and
> found some notes from a good ten years ago relating to my conlang
> Rozhendi. 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.
>
> So my question is: what sort of climate would a place like this have? I
> had completely forgotten having come up with these figures, and I'd like
> to explore where this might lead my conculturally, and the sort of
> landscape and climate the people live is obviously a major factor. Also,
> realistically speaking, if such an island existed, would it most likely
> be volcanic like Iceland and the Azores? How fertile or arable would it
> likely be? I think when I was younger I'd envisioned a magically green
> and fertile place, but now I think I'd rather leave the whole fantasy
> and magic thing behind and explore things from a more real-world point
> of view.
>
> Any advice or ideas welcome!
This is pretty much exactly where Livagia is, though Livagia is
about 25,000 square km. So I too have wondered exactly the same
thing about the climate at that region. From the maps I've seen,
it is bang on the edge of the gulf stream, so it is quite
perplexing to fathom whether or not it would be warm for its
latitude. I find that atlases tend to be very landocentric,
alas.

(Livagia is not volcanic. Rather, it got left behind in the
middle when the Atlantic opened up on either side of it; it is
a little fragment of the Laurasian mountain range that runs from
eastern North America, across Scotland, and into Scandinavia.)

--And.