Map A.05 - Yukaghir Sea

Incomplete Map. Arctic region reaching from 82.34°N south to 72.51°N, utterly undiscovered by civilisation. Includes the eastern portion of the Samoyad Peninsula and the northern coastline of Sakha, part of Trakkatch Dran, a vast land under the suzerainty of the norker people. The unmapped Islands of Aryania skirt the eastern edge of the map.

Hexes are 20 miles in diameter. Total area depicted equals 366,450 sq.m.

Features

Islands of Buyan

Mythical lands have never been viewed by Europeans; even the inhabitants of the mainland are hardly aware of their existence. According to legend, the Buyan Islands are able to appear and disappear. Three brothers, demi-gods of the northern, western and eastern winds, dwell here. The three largest islands, Bolshe, Nauk and Oktyab, are named for them. The Zoryas, solar demi-goddesses who are the daughters of the solar god Dazhbog, also dwell here.

Pronchis Mountains

An eastern extension of the Byranga Plateau, a mountain knot comprising foothills above a thousand feet and peaks ranging up to 3,000 ft.

Yukaghir Sea

An arm of the Arctic Ocean bounded by Samoyadia on the west and Trakkatch Dran on the south. The sea is shallow, no deeper than 12-13 fathoms as far out as 30 mi. from shore. The Yansk Sea is free of ice and open for navigation from the east during August and most of September, though pack ice and bergs may be carried into it from the frozen west sea. The Yukaghir Sea cannot be entered from the west, as it remains frozen or nearly so the year round.

Provinces

Samoyadia

The Kingdom of Samoyadia is a gnoll realm and homeland of the gnoll people, in the furthest north of Siberia. Temperature ranges from very cold in the winter to chilly in July. The population is largely gnoll in race, but some norker clans can be found along the border with Sakha. Fauna includes reindeer, wolves, polar bears, ermine and migratory birds; transhumance is practiced among copious reindeer herds that move to foothills of the Pronchis Mountains in summer and southwestward in the winter. The immense kingdom has an area of 730.7 hexes and a population of 15,625.

Adjacent Maps

A4: Kara Sea	A5: Yukaghir Sea		A6: Aryania
B6: Tunguska		B7: Verkhoy Range

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