Re: Wild Cat Island


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 30, 2004 at 06:52:22 from 217.137.106.52 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: Wild Cat Island posted by Dan LInd on March 30, 2004 at 03:47:17:

I don't think you get realistic distances by scaling from the very diagrammatic end maps. The Lake is "as big as a small sea", not two miles long.

my own feeling is that you must start from real geography. the Lake is the shape of Coniston but most of the water features fit Windermere and the descriprions of the length of voyages throughout the series also fit Windermere So the Lake is a bit over 10 miles long.

Wild Cat Island fits Peel Island on Coniston in most geographical details but is clearly rather bigger. Peel is about 50 yards long - I suggest that Wild Cat needs to be twice that size to really fit.

If you sail on Coniston and visit Peel Island you get an incredible sense of having been there before - which of course you have, in the books - except that it is not as deserted as in AR's time. Windermere hasn't the same atmosphere because of the omnipresent hordes of speedboats.


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