"The island continent lies in the water hemisphere...
The other world-
the old world,
the land hemisphere-is far above her...

From that world...the people came to a new beach to find a new culture,
all by steam;
or their parents, all by sail...there is

nothing

in the interior, so people look toward the water,
and above to the fixed stars and constellations...
the skies are sub-tropical,
crusted with suns and spirals,
as if a reflection of the crowded Pacific Ocean, with its
reefs,
atolls
and archipelagos."
Stead, quoted in Huntsman.