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Traversing the North and South islands.
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​Kevan James
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Heading south, the distance from Kingsborough to Bay City is 230 miles; going in the opposite direction to the most northerly city on the North Island is some 220 miles. This northern outpost, appropriately named 'North Deal' (I did think about calling it 'New Deal' but decided against...) is a total distance of 450 miles from the tip of the south to the top of the north.
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You couldn't miss The Kingsborough Islands in reality.
But then this is fiction so use your imagination...
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The maps below might help put things in their place
(more to come soon).
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The Mid Atlantic location
Principal Cities and Towns
Above - The Tectonic Plates
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge forms the division between the North American and European Tectonic Plates. This makes it earthquake territory but curiously the Kingsborough Islands have never suffered any major 'quake disruption. Other than a small part of the south-eastern part of the South Island, which even today is uninhabited, quite wild and unspoilt, although one can 'feel' a major earthquake, none has ever caused major damage.
Minor disturbances usually pass unnoticed.
As a slight side-note, the strongest earthquake in the Atlantic occurred in 1816 on February 2, somewhere between the Azores Islands and Lisbon, Portugal. With an estimated magnitude of 8.3–8.9 the 'quake had an epicentre offshore in the Atlantic Ocean, and was felt in Lisbon at 00:40 local time.
The Kingsborough region
Kevan James
The city of Kingsborough itself lies on the northeast corner of the South island. To the immediate east is Falmouth.
Shown below are the 203 original A3 sheets of my father's map, set inside a wider and basic illustration of the Kingsborough/Jamesbury/Keffield area (drawn by me to provide a location perspective).
The city of Keffield, although not the capital, is the largest urban area on the islands and is now home to the largest and busiest shipping port serving the islands. Originally, the prime port of entry to the islands - for people and cargo - was Kingsborough itself, but traffic quickly outgrew the river and Falmouth become the port area. Once again the shallow inlet where the docks were located became insufficient and a new dock area was built at Victoria, at the mouth of the river on the northern edge of Kingsborough.
This was not considered a long-term solution however and at the other end of the channel separating the north and south islands, the deep water at Keffield and the scope for expansion meant the city was a natural location for the primary port serving the islands.
Taken together, Kingsborough, Keffield, Jamesbury, Terrbridge, Cranmere and Farnhead on the northern edge of the south island, have a population of some 5 million people.
The second busiest port is at the appropriately named city of Port Brooks, to the west of South Bay, on the southern tip of the south island (the third busiest is North Deal, at the very north end of the North Island).
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