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Where is First Colony?
« Thread Started on Jul 28, 2010, 2:08am »

Please excuse me for a minute while I exhibit my geeky side. I wanted to get an idea of where the events of First Colony were taking place, so I tried to punch in the coordinates shown on one of the Global Conference slides, 33°74’ N, 116°71’ W.

It took me a while to figure out that those coords are no good. The second number is minutes, so it can't be higher than 60.

So the first thing I'm wondering is whether that's a real mistake on the part of Cronin or his publisher, or if he did it on purpose and the people who live 1000 years in the future just use coordinates differently than we do.

But if you re-write the coords as 33.74, -116.71, then you get what looks to be the right location for First Colony. Google Map here.

So the road to the power station is north to Banning, then east 10 klicks to the station itself. The present day wind farms are a little further to the east but Cronin could have played with things a bit.

A pic of what the wind farms would look like as they came down the mountain is on Wikipedia.

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Re: Where is First Colony?
« Reply #1 on Sept 21, 2010, 4:38pm »

HA I love it. I'm a big geography nerd and so I would have done this eventually. Thanks!

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Re: Where is First Colony?
« Reply #2 on Dec 30, 2010, 2:16pm »

This is AWESOME.

Thanks for that Megaton, this seems like the perfect spot described for First Colony. I love having a real world frame of reference for stories set in the future, especially PA.

Does anyone know where there might be a detailed map of First Colony online? My Kindle version's map from the book is hard to read.

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Re: Where is First Colony?
« Reply #3 on Dec 30, 2010, 8:03pm »

This map is mostly readable.

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Re: Where is First Colony?
« Reply #4 on Dec 31, 2010, 10:13am »

Megaton: you rule.

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Re: Where is First Colony?
« Reply #5 on Apr 26, 2011, 3:40pm »

You can Google the exact location after converting them to real LatLong coordinates as: "34.233333 N 117.183333 W". It centers somewhere in the San Bernardino Mountains E-NE of Los Angeles. Coincidentally, this is just about thirty miles from 29 Palms USMC.....

Jul 28, 2010, 2:08am, MEGATØN wrote:

Please excuse me for a minute while I exhibit my geeky side. I wanted to get an idea of where the events of First Colony were taking place, so I tried to punch in the coordinates shown on one of the Global Conference slides, 33°74’ N, 116°71’ W.

It took me a while to figure out that those coords are no good. The second number is minutes, so it can't be higher than 60.

So the first thing I'm wondering is whether that's a real mistake on the part of Cronin or his publisher, or if he did it on purpose and the people who live 1000 years in the future just use coordinates differently than we do.

But if you re-write the coords as 33.74, -116.71, then you get what looks to be the right location for First Colony. Google Map here.

So the road to the power station is north to Banning, then east 10 klicks to the station itself. The present day wind farms are a little further to the east but Cronin could have played with things a bit.

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