Competitive collaborative conworld - CONTINENTS BY MON 27

[Zju]

Most rivers are added, but the islands are missing and the coast is not terribly detailed either.
More details are to be added if the continent is of some significance.

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

My interpretation of Antarctica:

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[Matrix]

[Pressed Bunson]

My interpretation of Antarctica:

That really looks more like Australia.

[HandsomeRob]

This planet is going to have a lot of continents...

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Most of those will probably be big islands rather than real continents.

[communistplot]

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[Lyra]

Re-submitting my Antarctica. Now with heights:

FULL SIZE IMAGE: http://i.imgur.com/5nvWVB5.png

Lettuce.


~Lyra

[Cedh]

Played around with Wilbur a bit, and got this. Shouldn't have been drawing maps late on a Sunday night, but oh well...

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[zompist]

It's officially Monday, so you have officially 24 hours left!

[communistplot]

Here's a less lazy version since I had the day off.

[Haplogy]

Right in time, I hope.

[KathTheDragon]

By my reckoning, there's still about 7 hours.

[ObsequiousNewt]

A little something I drew up in math class. I think it would be cool to have an archipelago as the main continent.

Also, per Ars Lande, ignore the rivers.

[Salmoneus]

Didn't think I was going to do this, but what the hell. Haven't made a continent in ages.



Please excuse the impressionistic design, and sorry, I forgot there'd be that whitespace there.

I've tried for something both interesting and realistic. As you can see, it's a merger of three plates, in the process of colliding - a small subcontinent on the bottom left (I've no attachment re: north and south, east/west), a big continent in the centre, and a little ribbon of a subcontinent at the top. There are three major orogenies going on here (the paler orange is just 'uplands' and hill country, the darker puce is serious mountains, the red is really serious mountains, and the thin pale line is the really, really serious mountains):
- the huge mountain chain in the bottom left, with the ridge of really high mountains, caused by the arrival of the subcontinent (see India)
- the mountains either side of the juncture between the main and the topmost landmasses. There was a sea here, but it's almost entirely been eaten up...
- the mountains right at the top (and at the top left), standard mountains caused by the ocean plate hitting the continental margin

Apart from that, I'd mention two things:
a) the large shallow sea at right (pale blue, turns out it looks a bit too green, sorry about that), probably has a lot of little islands in
b) where the main and top plates are colliding, there are a number of trapped seabasins. These, inevitably, have dried up (like the old mediterranean). The grey areas were shallow seas (or at least were once the mountainbuilding had a go at them) - these areas are below sea level but not much, and dry. Think dead sea. The white area is exposed deep seabed, again like the old mediterranean - long way down, hot as hell, thick air, all salt flat.

The dry seas/lakes may appear weird, but they're a perfectly natural phenomenon that has occured on earth within the very recent (i.e. thousands, not millions, of years) past. We just happen not to have them at the moment. If we looked at this continent a ten million years earlier, we'd probably just see a mediterranean-like sea; if we looked ten million years later, I guess it would all just look like the Rockies. This is what you get in between...

Anyway, the idea is that this continent would offer plenty of diversity: you've got multiple open flat areas that early on would be mostly independent from one another, you've got possibilities for seafaring at the right there (both the shallow sea and the peninsulars around it) (there's also a couple of places where you could reasonably stick on some archipelagos about the place if you wanted), and you've got something weird going on up at the top.

Hope you like.

[Torco]

Soo, I ended up getting a bit carried away. But here's me continent. I just have to say, I had much fun doing it. Found it kind of therapeutic.
The general shape is inspired by the britain and chiloé, except mixed together and rotated and kind of kneaded around so I don't think its very recognizable. The main idea in my mind as I did it was that rivers shape geography, you know, erosion and stuff, so it didn't feel comfy making a riverless continent: plenty of valleys and basins and so on. Also, plenty of little islands so that there can be
reduced image size.


full sized versions [kind of big, 4k by 2k pixels or somesuch]
outline

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moar rivers

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elevation map

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And a mosaic version, just because.

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naturally, i posted this like two hours before deadline. ah! reminds me of university.

[alassion]

Here's my submission. I like how the shape of the continent turned out, but I don't really know how to mountain. Sorry.

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