Nonestica

Nonestica, aka Continent of Imagination

Oz and surrounding countries (note that east and west are reversed on the map)

Continent of Imagination, as mapped by John Drury Clark and John Burton Hatcher
The Oz series location
Creator L. Frank Baum
Genre Children's books
Type fairy continent
Notable locations Land of Oz, Forest of Burzee, Land of Ev, Ix, Merryland, Mo, Noland, Nome Kingdom
Notable characters Wizard of Oz, Princess Ozma, Santa Claus

Nonestica (also known as the Continent of Imagination) is a fictional continent within L. Frank Baum's Oz universe on which the Land of Oz and its neighboring countries are located.

History

It is located in the fictional Nonestic Ocean and contains the countries of Oz, Ev, Ix, Mo (Phunniland), Noland, the Forest of Burzee, Merryland, the unidentified Kingdom of Dreams, and many others. The Land of Oz is separated from the other lands by the Deadly Desert.

Due to the course of Dorothy's shipwreck in Ozma of Oz on her way to Australia, it has been speculated that Nonestica might be imagined to be located in the Pacific Ocean between California and Australia in geographical position, but this is impossible to verify. It does, however, appear to be in the same hemisphere as Kansas.

The name "Nonestica" derives from the Latin phrase "non est," meaning "it does not exist." The name does not appear in any canonical Oz book; however, "Nonestic Ocean" does. The name "Nonestica" was proposed by Robert R. Pattrick for the name of the continental mainland. He proposed "Ozeria" as the name of the entire continent, including its islands.

David Hardenbrook's The Unknown Witches of Oz contains one of the most ambitious cosmographies of Nonestica and Baum's Oz universe yet attempted.

List of places

Nonestic Ocean

The Nonestic Ocean is an ocean that surrounds Nonestica. Besides surrounding Nonestica, the Nonestic Ocean contains a variety of islands including:

There were also exotic and undersea locations in the Nonestic Ocean:

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