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Yes that would be interesting...how about medieval times, or when colonialism begins will a power wish to take the islands?

I could imagine it being a bit like the Canary Islands, so you could end up with some adventurer claiming to be king for a while!

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Grey Wolf
 
I wouldn't put my money on the Celts or even the Romans knowing about them. But they will definitely be known by the time of the "fishing revolution" in the Late Middle Ages.

Barring butterflies, remember that the Portuguese colonized the Açores and Madeira basically to grow wheat to ship home from there. It didn't quite work IOTL because these places were small, but with this big one instead... well, you do the math.
 
I could imagine it being a bit like the Canary Islands, so you could end up with some adventurer claiming to be king for a while!

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

Yeah say an explorer commissioned by a nation to explore then became king of the islands only to have an angry nation chasing after him.
 
I wouldn't put my money on the Celts or even the Romans knowing about them. But they will definitely be known by the time of the "fishing revolution" in the Late Middle Ages.

Barring butterflies, remember that the Portuguese colonized the Açores and Madeira basically to grow wheat to ship home from there. It didn't quite work IOTL because these places were small, but with this big one instead... well, you do the math.


Yeah maybe.
 
I wouldn't put my money on the Celts or even the Romans knowing about them. But they will definitely be known by the time of the "fishing revolution" in the Late Middle Ages.

I'm not sure the ancient Celts need to know they are there in order to colonise them, they can easily accidentally end up there.

I just liked the idea of the fair land to the West actually having a reality behind the legend, but it could be amusing to have their legends co-exist with the islands, but in a sort of ignorance that it was really there

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Grey Wolf
 
I'm not sure the ancient Celts need to know they are there in order to colonise them, they can easily accidentally end up there.

I just liked the idea of the fair land to the West actually having a reality behind the legend, but it could be amusing to have their legends co-exist with the islands, but in a sort of ignorance that it was really there

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

I wonder if it is a mythical thing would something come from that? Like cult rule or something.
 
Any geological POD is going to have to take place millions of years ago, and will disrupt climate patterns. This archipelago in particular will disrupt climate patterns in Europe, as it's sitting more or less across the Gulf Stream; this will result in great divergences in the history of human settlement and development within Europe. So it's impossible to say who will make it to this archipelago first, as OTL's Vikings and other groups won't exist.

The gulf stream warming up Europe is probably not true, or at the very least the effect of this alone is greatly exaggerated:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030602/2gulfstream.htm
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/4/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate/1
 
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