Cartographic Notes

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Basis for latitude: meridian through Observatory Mountain.

Basis for altitude determination:  the Great Bird.

Polar Sink: 500 m. below Bled level.

Tungusk: about 200 km. northeast of Dyunidaam

Cave of Birds:  in Hobbomaeo Ridge.

Great Bled: open, flat desert, as opposed to the erg-dune area. Open desert runs from about 60' north to 70' south.  It is mostly sand and rock, with occasional outcroppings of basement complex.

Great Flat: an open depression of rock blending into erg. It lies about 100 m. above the Bled.  Somewhere in the Flat is the salt pan which Pesnud Holstein (father of Leet-Holstein) discovered.  There are rock outcroppings rising to 200 m. from S'yteche Tobr south to the indicated s'yetche communities.

Hors Pass: the Shrine of Nichoals's skull overlooks this pass.

Old Gap: a crevasse in the Dyuni Shield Wall down to 2240 m.' blasted out by Alexei Niaeb'D'd.

Palmaries of the South: do not appear on this map.  They lie at about 40' south latitude.

Red Chasm: 1582 m. below Bled level.

Rimwall West:  a high scarp (4600 m.) rising out of the Dyuni Shield Wall.

Wind Pass: cliff-walled, this opens into the sink villages.

Wormline: indicating farthest north points where whales have been recorded. (Moisture, not cold, is the determining factor.

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