Map A.02 - East Spitsbergen

Click to enlarge. Shows latitude 72.51 to 82.34 north, including the islands of Svalbard, Bear Island and the edges of Troms and Finnemar. The wide Barents Sea, sometimes called the Devil's Dance Floor or the Devil's Jaw, dominates the map.

The County of Troms is part of Denmark & Norway, and is inhabited by humans, but the Thann of Finnemar is elvish and part of the Principality of Ulthua. An important elvish trading town, Hammerhearth, is a gateway to the Arctic. It was settled in 747 A.D.

I'd be most likely to employ the map as a pathway to Svalbard, towards which the party would venture in search of obscure wisdom or perhaps seeking the wreck of a lost ship. Details of the residents on those islands are being withheld for the day when my players find a reason to go here. I've not yet had any party who spent any time on this map.

The orange line, showing at the center bottom and top right, gives the line of hexes that indicates 30°E. Hexes are 20 miles in diameter. Numbers at the right indicate distance from the north pole in hexes; the direction of north is at the top right, so it must be noted the direction on the map turns 60° at the 30th meridian.

See Also,
Sheet Maps

East: Jotunheim

West: Greenland Sea

And from Wikipedia:

Spitsbergen