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Islandia lay south of the equator. It was the southernmost tip of the Karain Continent. There is even a map of it (see cut). Its seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...
They dispatched several naval ships to Singapore. Dutch submarines harassed the Japanese supply lines for the assault on Malaya. Dutch planes attacked the Japanese attackers of Mindanao, the southernmost major Philippine Island. Dutch planes and submarines played a doomful tune on the hulls of Japanese ships heading for Raja Brooke's Sarawak...
...clock that morning, R.A.F. reconnaissance found the ship lying motionless off Mandal, the southernmost point of Norway. Shepherded by her destroyers, she soon limped away at greatly reduced speed into the safety of the Skagerrak, probably so strongly protected by German land-based fighters that the British bombers-too far from home to bring a fighter escort-did not dare strike again. However, one pocket battleship would not raid for some time to come...
...soon as the hot southerly wind abated, the Germans struck. They struck not in a foolish, perilous, single column near the coast, as the Italians had struck last fall; the wiser Germans drove on a broad front, in first three, then five columns. The southernmost columns were deep in the desert, out of effective naval range. In a few hours the Germans pushed 40 miles, almost as far as Sidi Barrani...
...Punta Arenas, world's southernmost city (pop. 24,307), a sheep ranchers'center, the Antarctic exiles re-entered the green world of vegetables, trees, rocks, beer, money, steaks, French friend potatoes, lettuce-and women. Shaved, dressed in khaki shirts and trousers, with money to spend, the men piled ashore, pushed aside photographers and interviewers as they set out to fulfill long-considered plans. One man had sworn he would get the autograph of the first woman he saw. But she sailed past the wharf in an automobile, would not stop. Their plans were not all alike...