Timeline for What natural phenomena could make an island unreachable?
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| Oct 5, 2018 at 21:15 | comment | added | chiggsy | @kojiro I would say the most significant of the factors you mentioned was not the kamikaze, but rather the Chinese boat builders who, having great knowledge of the weather patterns in that area, made ships that would be capsized by waves offshore. | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 13:09 | comment | added | Weckar E. | @AlexHintermann You say 17th century seafaring technology is available. How are the other tech levels? | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 11:30 | answer | added | apetit | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 11:08 | comment | added | kojiro | When the Mongols under Kublai Kahn tried to invade Japan by sea, they were defeated by a variety of factors, including typhoons. The storms became known as the Kamikaze (神風) or Divine Wind. Strictly speaking the storms alone didn't prevent the Mongols landing, but they are an interesting historical real world example of a relevant meteorological event. | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | David42 | Unreachable is a question of degree. Just how motivated and well-financed are the people trying to reach this island? Do they have just one ship with ordinary equipment, or is this a major expedition sent by a world power to take the island at all cost? | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | The One | Put it in the center of a permanent hexagonal storm, like the one in saturn | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 1:43 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Lousy cellphone reception. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 22:13 | vote | accept | Alex Hintermann | ||
| Jun 13, 2017 at 22:13 | vote | accept | Alex Hintermann | ||
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| Jun 13, 2017 at 17:28 | answer | added | Angelo Fuchs | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 16:47 | answer | added | Jammin4CO | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | John | @AlexHintermann, feel free to add new information to your question just mark it as such. Just start the new information with a bolded "edit" title, to keep once valid answers from getting downvoted. Helping you to refine the question is part of why comments exist. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 9:25 | answer | added | Denis de Bernardy | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 6:52 | comment | added | Alex Hintermann | @John The island is large, about 50 square km. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 6:52 | answer | added | Anixx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 4:44 | comment | added | John | How big an island, some of small high cliffed ones are unreachable by anything but helicopter. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 4:14 | answer | added | Nathan | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 21:03 | answer | added | tj1000 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 20:28 | answer | added | jaam | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:34 | comment | added | Alex Hintermann | @WesSayeed The residents of the empire have descended from the people on the island, but too many generations have passed for them to remember. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:27 | comment | added | Alex Hintermann | ADDITIONAL INFO: For my purposes, the island should be unreachable for a meteorological reason. Something to keep its ecosystem isolated and a sea-faring empire out. The island itself is quite large and habitable, with jungle, volcanic mountains, and desert. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:27 | comment | added | Alex Hintermann | Indeed, I do not want to invalidate the other answers, as many of them are awesome. Where can I put a refinement of the question then? In this comments strand? (Noob. Sorry.) | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:24 | history | edited | Alex Hintermann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed additional info b/c it negated many of the answers.
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:16 | comment | added | JDługosz | Don’t edit the question in a way that invalidates existing answers! | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:12 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 8:11 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | Do the inhabitants of this world know the island exists? Like there are legends about it but no one can get there? | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 7:39 | vote | accept | Alex Hintermann | ||
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 7:39 | comment | added | Alex Hintermann | I added more details above, as to why the island is unreachable. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 7:38 | history | edited | Alex Hintermann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added specifics to the question.
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 7:06 | comment | added | xDaizu | Piranha ring. Extreme radioactivity. Supervolcano. Extreme evaporation of all the oceans on the planet. A less-than-nice sea "dinosaur". Uninhabited planet (can't be reached if there's no one to reach it). Huge meteor impacting the island and destroying it. Huge meteor impacting the planet and destroying it. Options galore! | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 3:42 | answer | added | Wes Sayeed | timeline score: 38 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 3:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 2:52 | comment | added | Vylix | does unreachable means no written record of it being available? There could be island where people already went there, but just didn't live to tell others. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 2:50 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 1:48 | answer | added | JustSnilloc | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 0:38 | answer | added | cybernard | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 23:14 | answer | added | Mazura | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 22:53 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | Supernovas. A nearby supernova could kill off all life on the planet, which would make the island unreachable to people with 17th century technology. | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 22:06 | answer | added | Count Iblis | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 19:16 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 15:39 | answer | added | Thorsten S. | timeline score: 57 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 14:51 | comment | added | Ludi | You should further elaborate o why you want it unreachable. For example, an island that is submerged for most of the time is reachable, but none goes there. A good place to hide things. | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 14:10 | answer | added | pablodf76 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 14:09 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 13:33 | comment | added | Z.Schroeder | I suggest checking out the novel Fragment. Hender's Island is a great example of an isolated and unreachable ecosystem (that the book proves should definitely, DEFINITELY stay that way xD). | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 12:53 | answer | added | Robert Columbia | timeline score: 43 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 11:57 | answer | added | Varad Mahashabde | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 10:22 | comment | added | Mormacil | Unreachable for what reason? There is no sub tropical place on Earth humans hadn't reached in the 17th century. So why can't it be reachable? Or must it merely be undiscovered? | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 10:19 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 10:19 | history | asked | Alex Hintermann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
