Gaeta 5 Road Network

Gaeta 5 has an integrated road-water transport system. The continent can be circumnavigate along its waterway. It has three roads (route 7, route 7A and route 7B). Route 7 encircles the continent along its expensive coastline and it is interrupted in various places, where it is replaced with navigable canals.

## Route 7

* Road length: 12066 m
* Virgin trail: 165 m
* Beach road: 270 m
* Waterway: 6738 m
* Total road: 12336 m
* Total road and virgin trail: 12501 m
* Total including waterways: 19239 m.

Route 7 is the longest road of Gaeta 5 and the only road that encircles its whole continent. For most of its length, it is made of a poor quality asphalt. Still, there are a few small sectors where the road is of better quality. It is interrupted in many places, where it is replaced by waterways.

We will describe this road starting from Squall, the Western sim where Magellan Linden landed on the shores of Gaeta 5, in an anticlockwise direction.

**Water sector 1** - 313 m. In Squall sim, the road is absent. There is no canal. Boats can run along the coastline and people can travel along the shore. There is a narrow waterway (1 m deep) that advances East towards the Helfell Infohub. To North, the road ends in a parking area, which is also a rezz zone. To South, the road starts beneath water.

**Road sector 1** - 1038 m. It connects the sims Einer and Hanaji. In this area, the road is of poor quality and built at low elevation. Many times, through terraforming, parcels near the river had been transformed into ponds.

**Water sector 2** - 867 m. It connects Hanaji and Eddison. The road is replaced with a narrow canal. In some parts, the water is shallow, about 2 m deep. The canal has no connection with coastal waters.

**Beach road** - 270 m. It occurs in Starborn sim. The beach road is made of wood and is built at low elevation. It ends to West with a dock. In East, it is continued with a road. However, there are boulders placed to limit vehicle access.

**Road sector 2** - 3947 m. It is the longest road sector and intersects both route 7A and route 7B. The road has some different textures in this area. While most of it is a poor-quality, narrow asphalt road, in some areas, it is larger and modern. There are a few abandoned working places. Nobody had ever seen the work to resume. Also, there is a small bridge.

It connects Phasic Foo with Plumpton. Intersection with route 7A is in Goldbach and intersection with route 7b is in Japarid. Interestingly, in Starborn and Phasic Foo, the road runs close to the South shores and almost touches the water.

**Water sector 3** - 1694 m. It connects Maclane with Swanbridge. Water has various depths along the way. The canal is terminated at both ends with a dock with rezz zones for boats and cars. There is no one private-owned waterway that allows a connection between the road and the coastal waterway in Sorbet sim.

**Road sector 3** - 1654 m. It connects Swanbridge with Geoffroy. For most of its length, the road is built with poor quality asphalt and at low elevation. One can see that in many parts there are ponds on both sides of the road. While passing Frostar, the road enters a palm forest. To East, there is a dock with a rezz zone for boats.

**Water sector 4** - 1989 m. It is the longest water sector. Also, it is the deepest, with depth of over 10 m. It connects Geoffroy with Wissendon. Along the way, the canal merges with the coastal waterway three times. Even so, one can see that the canal is more shallow or deeper then the surrounding coastal waters. The largest sector spent outside the coast is in Skonber sim.

**Road sector 4** - 2822 m. It connects Skonber with Feoktistov. Route 7 intersects route 7B in Putnam. To East, the road ends and there is a small off-road section leading to a dock. To West, the road ends with a missing bridge. In its central section, the road rises to its highest elevation, 51 m, while crossing an inner plain, where the road is built of high-quality asphalt. There are working signs at the intersection with route 7B.

**Water sector 5** - 429 m. It spans between Feoktistov and Angkaswan sims. To East, there is an unfinished (or collapsed) bridge. To West, the road starts again from the coast. In the middle, the canal reaches coastal waterways and is interrupted by a large dock.

**Road sector 5** - 1580 m. It connects Angkaswan to East and Puccetta to West, where it also intersects route 7A. Along this sector, the road mostly runs at low elevation, on sandy terrain.

**Water sector 6** - 1446 m. From Sunspiral to Rebin, the road is replaced with a navigable waterway. Halfway, in Cliansa, the canal reaches the coast and is connected with the coastal waterway.

**Road sector 6** - 1025 m. It connects Rebin with Squall. The road runs at low elevation, through sandy and swampy terrain.

## Route 7A

* Length: 3013 m, asphalt.

This road runs from the North to the South coast, crossing through the Western inner part of the continent. Its Northern end is in Puccetta and its Southern end is in Goldbach. For its entire length, the road has the same texture. It is a modern road, with yellow road marks, suitable for any kind of vehicles. Unfortunately, there are not many rezz zones along it.

Highest elevation is 68 m. Along the way, the only landscape is that of an endless plain. No hills or waterways exist here.

Second Life Geography Institute branch for Gaeta 5 is located close to the road, in Peeley.

## Route 7B

* Length: 2178 m, asphalt.

It is also a modern road, designed for all vehicles. It runs through the Eastern part of the continent, reaching the coastal road 7 at its both ends: at Putnam in North and at Japarid in South. The road reaches a high elevation of 82 m in the middle of the continent. Altitude difference between parcels is very smooth, so that the road climbs slowly. The landscape is tha of an endless plain.

## Total data

* Roads: 17397 m
* Paths and virgin trails: 435 m
* Total surface transportation: 18232 m
* Canals for route 7: 6738 m
* Total roads and canals: 24970 m.

## See Also

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