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WtV: Name a Continent! Up to the 20th of May by AriesQuitex

Hello everybody!
I do have a set of continents on the World of Midgard which need to be named.
Each continent needs, in a way, two names. One human one, and one of the "native" population.

First, let's introduce you to the contestants:

a) 'Afrasia', the continent where the Amazones and Fennekims live. By size a bit smaller than Asia, its main center regions are a high percentage dry steppes or deserts. There are three major mountain ranges, one running into the coastal regions. The coastal regions are great plains and dense jungles. A few jungles and forests exist in pockets in the deserts and some perch agaisnt spots alongside the mountainranges.
These areas are a lot lower than the main continental area - 20.000 years ago it was the coastal waters near the shoreline, for the most part.

b) 'Ameriopa', the continent on which the Humans landed and where the 4th Reich is growing. The continent is, like the Americas, running from the northpole down to the deep south. Toward the east coast, large mountain ranges shield the contintent. At their feet, large plains cover what was once the coastal shallow waters.
The Reich settled on the western side of the continent. in a huge densely wooden area. This was a former shallow seabed - like a flat version of the gulf of Mexico, but on the other side. This mighty area is surrounded by high plateaus - the former actual landmass - which stretch into large area of forests, plains, rolling hills, steppes, hot and cold deserts. Toward the south the continents area becomes more and more rugged, with old volcanoes and several still visible meteorite craters pitting the landscape. Between wide stretches of deserts, a lot of large valleys rich with jungles and, further south, forests and later taiga hide. Toward the north of the equatorial lowland forests a hot desertcovers the plateau, crisscrossed with wide pathes of jungle along wide rivers. As it gets cooler, the jungles and deserts give way to steppes and forests, then come plains and more forests. Reaching to cold northern areas, taiga and tundra and large swamps and marshes compete with cold deserts. Approaching the polar circle, permafrost tundra runs for hundreds of miles until the polar mountainrange, the "Guardian Ranges" or "The Goddess Abode" - depending if you're ancient Terran or white Tiger - reach for the skies.
There are a few active volcanoes. North of the mountainrange there is only a few hundred miles of badlands where the magnetic northpole is. The ice there is up to one kilometer thick. South of the vast massif there is on average a snow and icecrust of a few dozen meters, seldomly up to a hundred meter. But large areas of the south facing areas of the mountainranges become ice-free in the summer, so that sparse vegetation can exist there, supporting a limited amount of snowrabbits and mountainsheep.

c) 'Austrarktika', the southpolar continent where the failed colony of the snowleopards is located. About as large as Australia and Antarktika combined, there are large areas of Taiga and Tundra type plains at the coastal regions. Several mounainranges run from the coastal regions toward the continents inside. The center of the continent is buried under 4 to 10 kilometers of ice. During the cool summers, many of the coastal regions experience an explosion of both Flora and Fauna. Unfortunately for those weak of heart, parts of the plains turn into festering swamps upon thawing.

a) Needs only one name: The name in the common tongue of Amazones and Fennekim. It will be, too, the name the tigers and the tribes use for it. The name can either be derived from the once-mighty and advanced society of the ancient tigers, or can be a new creation of the amazones. And the fennekim would have adopted it, not having ever thought about anything as big as a continent.

b) Needs a human and an ancient white tigers name. The human name would be something coughs and sticks on a square upper-lip-mustachio that the NSDAP would be proud of. mimicks Hitler A kood, strronk Tshoerman name! takes off mustachio
The ancient white tigers name should imply somehow the mother, the motherland... So maybe something like a dreamy idealization of a feminine concept would be suitable.

c) This continents primarily needs a name used by the snowleopard colonists. Think of buddhists monks, tibetan temples. Add in tribal people living in the nature, feelign one with nature, and being assured of their own physical prowess.
The only spice is , maybe, that that continent which seemed like an amiable spot to settle banged them over the head with an ancient combat virus and made them destroy most of their technology in a frenzy until they managed to control the situation again.
So maybe somethign which could carry some bitter irony would be as suited as a name for a place one is proud to have reached.
For the humans it's most likely "The south Pole" or "Nova Antarktika". But again, a "A kood, strronk Tshoerman name" would be welcome, too.

Sadly there is no prize. All I can offer is that those names that I blink at and fall in love with will be seriously considered and maybe used in the stories.

WtV: Name a Continent! Up to the 20th of May

AriesQuitex

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    Drakthonpa, perhaps? This is a cross post from FA, but oh well!