Talk:Islands of Earthsea

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[edit] Island areas

What's the basis for the areas given in square miles/km? How were they calculated? RandomCritic 18:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] square km/mi

I used tracing paper with a millimeter grid to trace the outline of the islands from the maps, then counted the number of squares in each island. Each map has a scale (usually 25 miles per 3 mm) so it was easy to figure out the square miles. Then it's just a question of multiplying by 2.56 to find the square kilometers!89.50.33.208 10:10, 5 November 2006 (UTC)