East Gaeta 5

The Eastern part of Gaeta 5 is a Subcontinent. SLGI team gave it the transitory name **B122**.

## History

Gaeta 5 was built in only 41 dais, at the beginning of 2008. It was the fastest continent built. Initially, it was planned that there will be five continents, merged later into a single Gaeta. This never happened, as, by the time Gaeta 1 was being built, Second Life reached its peak and the demand for land decreased below the speed at which land was set for sale or abandoned.

## Structure

The Linden Officials never divided Gaeta 5 into subcontinents or regions of any kind. SLGI team divided it into an East, a central and a West subcontinent, using only Microsector borders. The three subcontinents have many similar features.

East Gaeta 5 consists of 111 sims and includes all the sims inside microsectors K10 i9 and K10 i10.

## Geography

There are many similarities between all three subcontinents of Gaeta 5.

**Coastal Waterway** surrounds the continent and allows ships to circumnavigate. These waterways are more quiet then those of Nautilus and North Satori. Close to the coastline, water is very shallow. Further from the coast, water is deep enough to allow even large ships to pass through.

**Coastal Plain** is the expensive area close to the shores. Here, a large sandy beach extends deep. Through terraforming, one can change the shoreline, creating gulfs, lakes, islands and peninsulas. Ground texture is of high-quality, fine-grained sand.

**Inland Plain** follows the coastal plain and appears on the map as green. As elevation rises, sand is replaced by grass. Here, Inhabited Land starts to decrease and is gradually replaced by Abandoned Land.

**High Plain** occurs at higher elevation and is visible on the map, as land texture smoothly changes.

There are a few things characteristic only for East Gaeta 5:

**Mountains.** The East Mountains Of Gaeta 5 are located here. Even if they don't come with spectacular mountain ranges and sharp cliffs, they have higher elevations then Mountains Of Corsica, Mountains Of Satori or Mountains Of Nautilus. On the altitude map, they have an *X* shape and are formed by four ridges merging in Ghenyl sim.

**Central Hills.** They continue the mountains towards West. There is a very smooth hill range, extending from the mountains towards West. Measured altitude is over 100 m (for example, there is a peak in Pennyroyal, 110 m high).

**Frostar.** This is a sim located on the East Coast. It is entirely Protected Land. Route 7 goes through its center. The sim has water access and a dock wit ha rezz zone. There are a few wooden buildings close to the shore, suspended on pillars. Water is usually shallow. The sim hosts a large forest of palm trees.

## Land Status

There are 29 sims of Protected Land, 28 of them forming coastal waterways and one hosting the Frostar Forest.

Along the coastal sims, almost all land is Inhabited Land and very expensive. Deeper inside the continent, Abandoned Land is more frequently found.

Some land corporations take advantage of the relatively flat terrain and hold entire sims inland.

## Access

The subcontinent is surrounded by navigable waterways. Coastal waterways are sometimes narrow and pass over 6 sim corners. Inside Sorbet sim, the waterway passage is narrow.

Route 7, the coastal road, encircles the whole continent. However, in certain places, it ends-up and is replaced by navigable canals or it reaches the coastline where one can rezz a boat. There is a branch road (route 7B), which gives access to deeper inland regions.

The YavaScript pods run along the road network. The SLGI Fleet has a ship that conducts scheduled flights along the roads and waterways.

One can venture deep inland along the many parcels of abandoned land from route 7B.

## See Also

* Second Life Geography
* List Of Subcontinents
* Gaeta 5.