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    Helevos (also known as Vos, or Veeos) is a temperate terrestrial world, fourth planet of the star Cordes in the greenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreen

South Pole

The South Pole region consists of a permanent cap of ice covering sea, numerous islands and one large island continent, mostly concealed within a pack of sea ice which encompasses latitudes from roughly 75°C to the pole. The ice also encompasses the southern tip of the continent of Vuliméplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVulimé

Vulimé, or Voulimay (in Mayápo), is an island continent far to the south and east of Anásthias, more than 10,000km distant. The continent stretches 8400km from 25°S to 75°S , from subtropical forest in the north to icey tundra in the south.

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Historic Miyarrainplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMiyarrain People

The Miyarrain were the inhabitants of ancient Miyarris, famed as the most advanced civilisation of the Celadon Epoch. The Miyarrain were the progenitors of all modern Eloyoun peoples throughout eastern Anásthias.

Ancient Miyarris

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accounts refer to the southern continent, as Dahroshahp or Dahro, meaning “cutting cold”. This name probably only referred to the areas of tundra not covered by ice.

The polar continent is° 9600 km on its longest axis, with hundreds of smaller islands enclosed within a continuous ice shelf that extends over the South Polar Sea. The land is rugged and mountainous, with peaks reaching 7000 m. The coastline has precipitous cliffs and deep fjords gouged by the ice of colder epochsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigWorld History

Helevos has eight thousand years of recorded history, with archeology, artefacts and myth stretching back much further. There are two dominant views of human history: the theological view that the whole world and humanity were created some thousands of years ago in one instant of creation; the second, that all humanity descends from a race of fallen demigods called the viridEmerald EpochBMEgreenBMEAnásthiasAnásthiasBMEAnásthiasfolkloreMiyarrisGodmenBMEMEOrorrHartheraMEviridAnásthi…
. Consequently the treacherous northern coast with its icy cliffs and mountainous icebergs is more commonly called The Icehorns. South Poleplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAtlas: South Pole

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South Pole

The South Pole region consists of a permanent cap of ice covering sea, numerous islands and one large island continent, mostly concealed within a pack of sea ice which encompasses latitudes from roughly 75°C to the pole. The ice also encompasses the southern tip of the continent of

Geography

The polar continent has been rarely visited, since its rugged icebound coast is riddled with icebergs and fjords of precipitous rock with nothing of use or interest to explorers. The interior is high and mountainous, with plateaux up to five thousand metres high, covered with permanent snow and ice, its glaciers creeping slowly down to the sea. Only the far northern peninsula has any life. At 45°S its latitude is sufficient for temperate viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life.
forest to thrive around the far north coast, but the interior is limited to viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life.
shrubland and tundra, where life struggles to survive in the thin soil, blasted by glacial wind.

The polar sea is covered by a permanent ice sheet which varies with the seasons, being larger in winter and smallest in late summer. The sea ice ranges from 73°S to sometimes 80°S in warmer summers.

In previous cooler epochs the polar sea was permanently frozen, the ice pack covering virtually the whole island as well as southern reaches of Voulimayplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVoulimay

Alternate spelling for the island continent of Vulimé.
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maps/south_pole.txt · Last modified: 2021/09/25 06:08 by Robert How · []