Planetary Series - Places

Places

• Aquia — Carl Kent's trading station on Ganymede. (Tidal Moon)
• Ascanius — "Canal" connecting Mare Cimmerium and Mare Chronium. (Valley of Dreams)
• Cool Country — The cooler regions of Venus' twilight zone. (Parasite Planet)
• Dutch Alps — Mountains on Venus, in the section allotted to the Netherlands. Emeralds are mined there. (The Red Peri)
• Erotia — American settlement in the Cool Country of Venus, named for the god Eros. (Parasite Planet)
• Fever Sea — sea on Io. (The Mad Moon)
• Herapolis — Human settlement at the south pole of Io. (The Mad Moon)
• Hotlands — The hotter regions of Venus' twilight zone. (Parasite Planet)
• Hydropole — City built at the south pole of Ganymede. (Tidal Moon)
• Idiots' Hills — Hills on Io, in which are found evidences of a past civilization of loonies. (The Mad Moon)
• Junopolis — Human settlement at the north pole of Io. (The Mad Moon, Redemption Cairn)
• Madman's Pass — 25,000-foot pass in the Greater Mountains of Eternity. (Parasite Planet)
• Mare Australe — "Southern Sea", area at the southern pole of Mars. (Valley of Dreams)
• Mare Cimmerium — "Cimmerian Sea", dark area in the southern hemisphere of Mars between 10° and 40° S; a grey plain covered with biopods. Landing site of the Ares. (A Martian Odyssey)
• Mare Chronium — "Enduring Sea", dark area in the southern hemisphere of Mars between 50° and 60° S. (A Martian Odyssey)
• Mountains of the Damned — mountains on Titan bordering Nivia (Flight on Titan)
• Mountains of Eternity — mountains on Venus, up to 20 miles tall, running roughly east-to-west in Venus' western twilight zone. There are two parallel ranges, the "Lesser Eternities" to the north and the "Greater Eternities" to the south; the Lesser Eternities separate the American zone of settlement on Venus from the British zone to the south. (Parasite Planet)
• Nivia — "City of Snows" (from Latin nix "snow"). First and principal settlement on Titan. (Flight on Titan, The Red Peri)
• Patrick's Peak — One of the Mountains of Eternity on Venus. A solar analysis station is located there. (The Red Peri)
• Phlegethon — River flowing through Venus' twilight zone. (Parasite Planet)
• Thyle — Orange desert region on Mars south of 60° S; divided into Thyle I (east) and Thyle II (west). An orange desert. (A Martian Odyssey)
• Venoble — British settlement in the cool country of Venus, founded by Patrick Burlingame, south of the Greater Mountains of Eternity. (Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters, The Planet of Doubt)
• White Desert — Desert on Io. (The Mad Moon)
• Young's Field — A rocket port in Long Island, New York, where the Hera crashed in 2110. Possibly named for the explorer Young. (Redemption Cairn)
• Xanthus — Orange desert on Mars between Mare Cimmerium and Mare Chronium. (Corresponds on albedo maps of Mars to Eridania; on those maps, Xanthus is a "canal" west of Eridania.) (A Martian Odyssey)