Category: Places

A top-level category of Obscuripedia. The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

• Agloe, New York – Invented at an empty crossroads to catch mapmakers copying maps. It is said to have become real; the evidence that it did is one postcard.
• Earth – The third planet, and the one thing every other article here is about: an oblate spheroid since antiquity, flattened and taken personally ever since.
• Moon – The Earth's satellite, and its measuring instrument: one face turned to us, and the wrong reading of its density once hollowed out the planet.
• The Mountains of Kong – A range invented in 1798 to rescue a theory about the Niger. It crossed West Africa on forty maps for ninety-four years. Nobody had ever seen it.
• Neith – A moon of Venus, reported some thirty times between 1645 and 1768 by observers including Cassini. Every sighting has since been matched to a star.
• Niederlonn – Unlonn's birthplace – a Bavarian village reliably lower than its own records, and more easily left than found.
• Null Island – 0°N 0°E, where there is no island. It was named, and given a square metre of land, so that data which failed to locate would land somewhere visible.
• The Radian Dyke – Frisian sea-dyke at Harlingen, reckoned the centrepoint of the flat plane, from which van Radewijn rowed one radian towards the rim of the world and did not return.
• Reuelsee – Bavarian lake (Ǔ ≈ 4.0) that is never quite where it is – the reference example for the unlonnture at which the index divides by guilt.
• Sceptre Bay fjord – Ordinary fjord (Ǔ ≈ 1.6) in which Unlonn drowned while measuring it.
• Sun – The nearest star, and the one this encyclopedia keeps calling as a witness: never quite where it is seen, and gone from the horizon before it looks it.
• Vulcan – A planet announced, named, decorated and assigned an orbit to the arcminute, between Mercury and the Sun, that was never there.

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