WI Iceland farther south?
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Depends. Are you talking just Iceland or Iceland plus boundary between and placement of the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates?
It's not that simple
Different ocean currents, different climate, different race distribution, different civilizations
Making geographical changes is just too complex
Different ocean currents, different climate, different race distribution, different civilizations
Making geographical changes is just too complex
To a degree. But you usually only wanna change a millenia max. Not the coarse of evolution.Sigged.
Isn't that what AH is all about?
You want an answer that will make you happy don't you?
Here's one
The Vikings got lost, no Greenland
But then again there might not be any vikings around
Instead the Scots took Iceland, sending them to Canada or something
If there were any Scots
Here's one
The Vikings got lost, no Greenland
But then again there might not be any vikings around
Instead the Scots took Iceland, sending them to Canada or something
If there were any Scots
Michael Busch
I do not think it works that way.
Regardless, echoing everyone else: the butterflies will eat you now.
Well, assuming Iceland itself just formed further South and the tectonic plates are the same..
In terms of climate their may or may not be that much difference.
I'm not sure it would interfere with the Thermohaline Circulation, but I suspect it's just out of its way.
Culturally, well the Vikings may find it, I mean it's not like it's really that far from OTL, though their may be more immigration from Caledonia and Ireland if its discovered earlier and a good travel route is found.
Iceland would be warmer and thus may have a higher population and would probably be much more important in Trans-Atlantic travel.
In terms of climate their may or may not be that much difference.
I'm not sure it would interfere with the Thermohaline Circulation, but I suspect it's just out of its way.
Culturally, well the Vikings may find it, I mean it's not like it's really that far from OTL, though their may be more immigration from Caledonia and Ireland if its discovered earlier and a good travel route is found.
Iceland would be warmer and thus may have a higher population and would probably be much more important in Trans-Atlantic travel.
Stephen
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200 miles south gives it a slightly warmer climate on par with the Faroes islands. As the Irish Monks only built monastries on the faroes Iceland still gets no breedng pairs of humans till the Norse. Iceland will grow a larger population and the sailing distance to Britain and Ireland will be a bit shorter. The sailing distance to the Greenland settlements will be the same. The higher Icelandic population might produce more setlers for Vinland but probly not enough to make much diference.
Just Iceland. Everything else is the same as possible.
How? Does this allow the "unnamed sea mammal" to happen?
As Iceland contains no continental crust, only oceanic crust, and is entirely volcanic, putting it further south wouldn't really cause any major geologic butterflies. It would cause huge climactic ones.
It couldn't be located directly to the south however, as it formed as part of the Mid Atlantic Ridge. So it would be further to the west as well. Meaning it will be slightly harder for the Norse (assuming butterfly nets) to find, but I'm guessing they will anyway.
Would be much more interesting to make it substantially further south though. If you placed it midway between Galicia and Newfoundland you'd probably end up with the Portuguese settling it - and quite likely dominating North America.
It couldn't be located directly to the south however, as it formed as part of the Mid Atlantic Ridge. So it would be further to the west as well. Meaning it will be slightly harder for the Norse (assuming butterfly nets) to find, but I'm guessing they will anyway.
Would be much more interesting to make it substantially further south though. If you placed it midway between Galicia and Newfoundland you'd probably end up with the Portuguese settling it - and quite likely dominating North America.
Through Godwin's Law of Time Travel of course.
On a more serious note, I like the idea of placing it midway between Galicia and Newfoundland. Could make the Basques and Galicians discover it instead of the Norse or Irish. Possibly a Catholic Spanish (or Basque, I hope it's Basque
) flight there when the Moors come knocking?Doesn't this affect the Gulf Stream? You've just put a big island in between it and the Brit isles, I'd think you'd push it north and west. Maybe you've made Greenland warmer now, and the BI colder.
He's being a wise-ass. I know, it happens so rarely here on AH.com.
He's being a wise-ass. I know, it happens so rarely here on AH.com.
Through Godwin's Law of Time Travel of course.
On a more serious note, I like the idea of placing it midway between Galicia and Newfoundland. Could make the Basques and Galicians discover it instead of the Norse or Irish. Possibly a Catholic Spanish (or Basque, I hope it's Basque
That is absolutely the funniest thing I'm going to see all day.
Doesn't this affect the Gulf Stream? You've just put a big island in between it and the Brit isles, I'd think you'd push it north and west. Maybe you've made Greenland warmer now, and the BI colder.
He's being a wise-ass. I know, it happens so rarely here on AH.com.
Well obviously Iceland is going to have a better climate, and I could see the British Isles having much colder winters. I wonder if the changed gulf stream would make John Cabot land somewhere else along the North American coast. As to the matter of me being a "wise-ass", I plead the 5th.
I blame TV Tropes for my wiseassitude.He's being a wise-ass. I know, it happens so rarely here on AH.com.