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Topography Report - Planet Oceania Filed 1-19-2003 Filed by Starla Williams, Expedition Team Leader, Team 3C |
| This planet's surface consists of approximately seventy-five (75) percent water to twenty-five (25) percent landmass. There are two (2) major continents and sixteen (16) large islands. The two continents appear to have been at one time joined together. Five (5) of the main islands seem to be pieces that have split off of the continents, possibly at the same time as the two (2) continents split apart. Just to the East of the two (2) continents is a ring of ten (10) islands surrounding a empty space. Fathometers have determined that the depth in the center of this ring is over two thousand (2000) feet below sea level. Our astronomer believes that an asteroid may have struck the planet, causing a crater, and forming the island ring. The last island is south and slightly east of the island ring. This island is still sort of a mystery. It isn't in a position to have split off of one of the continents, and it doesn't appear to be magmatic in nature. We were unable to examine this island more closely. Apparently the Alqui queen claims the island as her own and no other being is permitted on the island. There are three (3) mountain chains, one (1) on the north continent and two (2) on the south. There is also a basin in the ocean, just southeast of the southern continent which drops to over three thousand (3000) feet below sea level. Elise believes that the basin was formed when the continents split. One unusual thing - this planet seems sort of one-sided. Both continents are on the same side of the globe. I know that they are large enough that they wrap around, but still. We checked the orbital calculations to be safe - the difference isn't large enough to affect the planet's axis or orbital path. |
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