The final two maps in my Timezone ISOT series, UTC-02:00 and UTC-01:00. I decided to post them together as both have very small areas and populations.
This series took longer than I thought to complete, but I've finally got there! Thanks to everyone who's liked the posts and commented on them which has encouraged me to continue with and complete the series. I've uploaded all the previous maps to my DA page.
UTC-02:00
Regions transported: Brazil (Atlantic islands), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
One day the boats and the planes stopped calling at the Brazilian Atlantic island of Fernando de Noronha. For several weeks the island was gripped by confusion, with no contact from the Brazilian mainland or in fact any other country. Then a signal was picked up from the naval base on the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago, several hundred miles away. The small team stationed there had been expecting to be rotated out and back home, but no relief crew had arrived. Similar reports soon followed from the station on Trindade to the south. With the dawning realisation that they were alone in the world, and that the search groups who had departed for the mainland would find nothing, the municipal administration in Vila dos Remédios took the necessary steps to transform itself into a national government. The Brazilian naval bases on the outlying islands were brought under Noronhese control, forming the new nation's military and services previously provided by the federal and state governments were established both in Fernando de Noronha itself and the coastal settlements. Of course the process was not cheap, and with no tourist income, the only option was increased taxation, as well as a reliance on goodwill: something that was not received well by all. While many grumbled and moaned, one man named João Vale took possession of Trindade, declaring himself to be King João I of the Kingdom of South Trinidad. While "King" João's declaration was not recognised by the Noronhese government, they had bigger fish to fry establishing order on the mainland and as such the Kingdom of South Trinidad was tolerated as long as João and his subjects kept themselves on their rock.
Far to the south of South Trinidad, on the island of South Georgia another group were stranded on their rock, only not through choice. When the boats had stopped, the temporary residents of Grytviken had been forced to ration what supplies they had, but even these had long dwindled leaving the island's seal and penguin populations as the only food source. After surviving what they though would surely be their last Antarctic winter, by sheer chance what appeared to be a ship was spotted on the distant horizon and radio contact was established, leading to the mounting of a rescue mission to bring the bedraggled scientists and researchers to Fernando de Noronha. While the South Georgians physically recovered and the station at Grytviken re-manned and re-provisioned by the Noronhese navy, for some of the survivors the psychological trauma would not go away, leading to suicides and a small group, unable to integrate into Fernando de Noronha's Brazilian culture and climate, to establish the settlement of New Georgia on the Rio de la Plata estuary, the ironic significance of the location not escaping those who remembered the world before the Event many long years previously.
UTC-01:00
Regions transported: Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit), Portugal (Azores), Cabo Verde
Clinging to Greenland's east coast, the residents of the small town of Ittoqqortoormiit were already used to isolation: their only link to the outside world being flights to Reykjavík and Akureyri in Iceland, via a helicopter transfer to the even more isolated airport. Then in a flash, their isolation became absolute. Blocked by the ice sheet from exploring the surroundings by land, and having to wait for the brief summer opening in the sea ice to set sail for Iceland and other parts of Greenland, breaking Ittoqqortoormiit's isolation was a slow process. Nevertheless, their perseverance paid off with new settlements appearing around the Icelandic coast and in the Tasiilaq area further south in Greenland. The settlements in Iceland, with access to luxuries such as year-round ice free seas, timber and geothermal springs, began to flourish, establishing the island as the cultural hub of the Inuit world, even if political power remained in Ittoqqortoormiit. Even more distant outposts were established in the Faroe Islands, along the Norwegian fjords and Scotland's Northern and Western Isles and even Ireland. The warmer temperate climate of these lands brought about a shift away from hunting and fishing and towards a lifestyle based upon animal husbandry and agriculture: a shift that some criticised as straying too far from that of their Greenlandic ancestors. The cultural shift in Ittoqqortoormiit's Irish settlements became even pronounced once new settlements began to be established along the southern and east coasts. These were not Greenlandic settlements however, but Azorean ones.
Perhaps even more geographically isolated than Ittoqqortoormiit, the residents of the Azores, along with foreign tourists who found themselves stuck on holiday, had also had to adapt to their enforced independence. Also like their northern neighbours, the Azoreans had looked outwards to the ocean, soon establishing new villages and towns on Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Portuguese mainland. The islands fishermen also headed west to the riches of the restocked Newfoundland Grand Banks, with some staying for longer and longer periods of time, camping out on the Avalon Peninsular and Cape Breton Island. Over time, the camps evolved into permanent villages as the fishermen were joined by their families and people working in associated service industries, with towns to rival their European counterparts. Such was the success of the Azoreans' colonisation efforts that Ponta Delgada's "Atlantic Empire" grew to stretch 3000 miles from west to east and 1700 miles north to south, built on booming agricultural, marine and service sectors and enriched by the communities descended from stranded tourists, primarily Irish, English and Scottish. This wasn't enough though, with many of the country's rich and powerful casting a prospecting eye both north and south at the potential resources and markets controlled by Ittoqqortoormiit and Cabo Verde. In order to realise their aims, the Azorean elite encouraged the nascent separatism of Ittoqqortoormiit's Irish settlements, generously supporting their efforts to establish the new nation of Irland, as well as Azoro-British nations around the Bristol Channel and Firth of Clyde.
Cabo Verde, which had enjoyed a productive relationship with their fellow lusophone neighbours, also established settlements on the mainland, around the Senegal and Gambia rivers before moving south along the coast with the furthest outposts around the mouths of the Volta and Ouémé Rivers. Relations between Ponta Delgada and Praia though became strained by emigration of Europeans and even native Cabo Verdeans to the Azoreans, and the return influx of Azorean business interests which Cabo Verde felt contributed little to their local economies and shipped their profits back to Ponta Delgada. In an effort to secure an outpost which would be sufficiently far from the Azores to remain free from their interests, the colony of Cabralia was founded along the Suriname River. The colony took its name from the leaders of Cabo Verde's independence struggles, and was so named in the hope that it would safeguard that independence and prevent the country from again becoming a Portuguese colony. Unfortunately for Praia, Cabralia's remoteness proved logistically troublesome and with the distraction of further Azorean acquisitions of Cabo Verdean assets, the development of the colony was neglected. Taking inspiration from their namesakes, Cabralians started to push for their own independence from Praia, however they retained the initial settlers' desire to free the world from the Azorean yoke. Therefore the skills and techniques employed in the campaign for Cabralian independence were also employed in persuading the people of Irland, Newfoundland and even the Costa do Sol that they could prosper free from Ponta Delgada.
This series took longer than I thought to complete, but I've finally got there! Thanks to everyone who's liked the posts and commented on them which has encouraged me to continue with and complete the series. I've uploaded all the previous maps to my DA page.
UTC-02:00
Regions transported: Brazil (Atlantic islands), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
One day the boats and the planes stopped calling at the Brazilian Atlantic island of Fernando de Noronha. For several weeks the island was gripped by confusion, with no contact from the Brazilian mainland or in fact any other country. Then a signal was picked up from the naval base on the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago, several hundred miles away. The small team stationed there had been expecting to be rotated out and back home, but no relief crew had arrived. Similar reports soon followed from the station on Trindade to the south. With the dawning realisation that they were alone in the world, and that the search groups who had departed for the mainland would find nothing, the municipal administration in Vila dos Remédios took the necessary steps to transform itself into a national government. The Brazilian naval bases on the outlying islands were brought under Noronhese control, forming the new nation's military and services previously provided by the federal and state governments were established both in Fernando de Noronha itself and the coastal settlements. Of course the process was not cheap, and with no tourist income, the only option was increased taxation, as well as a reliance on goodwill: something that was not received well by all. While many grumbled and moaned, one man named João Vale took possession of Trindade, declaring himself to be King João I of the Kingdom of South Trinidad. While "King" João's declaration was not recognised by the Noronhese government, they had bigger fish to fry establishing order on the mainland and as such the Kingdom of South Trinidad was tolerated as long as João and his subjects kept themselves on their rock.
Far to the south of South Trinidad, on the island of South Georgia another group were stranded on their rock, only not through choice. When the boats had stopped, the temporary residents of Grytviken had been forced to ration what supplies they had, but even these had long dwindled leaving the island's seal and penguin populations as the only food source. After surviving what they though would surely be their last Antarctic winter, by sheer chance what appeared to be a ship was spotted on the distant horizon and radio contact was established, leading to the mounting of a rescue mission to bring the bedraggled scientists and researchers to Fernando de Noronha. While the South Georgians physically recovered and the station at Grytviken re-manned and re-provisioned by the Noronhese navy, for some of the survivors the psychological trauma would not go away, leading to suicides and a small group, unable to integrate into Fernando de Noronha's Brazilian culture and climate, to establish the settlement of New Georgia on the Rio de la Plata estuary, the ironic significance of the location not escaping those who remembered the world before the Event many long years previously.
UTC-01:00
Regions transported: Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit), Portugal (Azores), Cabo Verde
Clinging to Greenland's east coast, the residents of the small town of Ittoqqortoormiit were already used to isolation: their only link to the outside world being flights to Reykjavík and Akureyri in Iceland, via a helicopter transfer to the even more isolated airport. Then in a flash, their isolation became absolute. Blocked by the ice sheet from exploring the surroundings by land, and having to wait for the brief summer opening in the sea ice to set sail for Iceland and other parts of Greenland, breaking Ittoqqortoormiit's isolation was a slow process. Nevertheless, their perseverance paid off with new settlements appearing around the Icelandic coast and in the Tasiilaq area further south in Greenland. The settlements in Iceland, with access to luxuries such as year-round ice free seas, timber and geothermal springs, began to flourish, establishing the island as the cultural hub of the Inuit world, even if political power remained in Ittoqqortoormiit. Even more distant outposts were established in the Faroe Islands, along the Norwegian fjords and Scotland's Northern and Western Isles and even Ireland. The warmer temperate climate of these lands brought about a shift away from hunting and fishing and towards a lifestyle based upon animal husbandry and agriculture: a shift that some criticised as straying too far from that of their Greenlandic ancestors. The cultural shift in Ittoqqortoormiit's Irish settlements became even pronounced once new settlements began to be established along the southern and east coasts. These were not Greenlandic settlements however, but Azorean ones.
Perhaps even more geographically isolated than Ittoqqortoormiit, the residents of the Azores, along with foreign tourists who found themselves stuck on holiday, had also had to adapt to their enforced independence. Also like their northern neighbours, the Azoreans had looked outwards to the ocean, soon establishing new villages and towns on Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Portuguese mainland. The islands fishermen also headed west to the riches of the restocked Newfoundland Grand Banks, with some staying for longer and longer periods of time, camping out on the Avalon Peninsular and Cape Breton Island. Over time, the camps evolved into permanent villages as the fishermen were joined by their families and people working in associated service industries, with towns to rival their European counterparts. Such was the success of the Azoreans' colonisation efforts that Ponta Delgada's "Atlantic Empire" grew to stretch 3000 miles from west to east and 1700 miles north to south, built on booming agricultural, marine and service sectors and enriched by the communities descended from stranded tourists, primarily Irish, English and Scottish. This wasn't enough though, with many of the country's rich and powerful casting a prospecting eye both north and south at the potential resources and markets controlled by Ittoqqortoormiit and Cabo Verde. In order to realise their aims, the Azorean elite encouraged the nascent separatism of Ittoqqortoormiit's Irish settlements, generously supporting their efforts to establish the new nation of Irland, as well as Azoro-British nations around the Bristol Channel and Firth of Clyde.
Cabo Verde, which had enjoyed a productive relationship with their fellow lusophone neighbours, also established settlements on the mainland, around the Senegal and Gambia rivers before moving south along the coast with the furthest outposts around the mouths of the Volta and Ouémé Rivers. Relations between Ponta Delgada and Praia though became strained by emigration of Europeans and even native Cabo Verdeans to the Azoreans, and the return influx of Azorean business interests which Cabo Verde felt contributed little to their local economies and shipped their profits back to Ponta Delgada. In an effort to secure an outpost which would be sufficiently far from the Azores to remain free from their interests, the colony of Cabralia was founded along the Suriname River. The colony took its name from the leaders of Cabo Verde's independence struggles, and was so named in the hope that it would safeguard that independence and prevent the country from again becoming a Portuguese colony. Unfortunately for Praia, Cabralia's remoteness proved logistically troublesome and with the distraction of further Azorean acquisitions of Cabo Verdean assets, the development of the colony was neglected. Taking inspiration from their namesakes, Cabralians started to push for their own independence from Praia, however they retained the initial settlers' desire to free the world from the Azorean yoke. Therefore the skills and techniques employed in the campaign for Cabralian independence were also employed in persuading the people of Irland, Newfoundland and even the Costa do Sol that they could prosper free from Ponta Delgada.
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