The town of Last Lament is located on the north-western coast of the island, so called because it is the last port of call for Summer Islands before they cross the Summer Sea towards Oldtown and Dorne. Tall Trees Town, home to the largest collection of knowledge in the isles (via the vast grove of Talking Trees, which have the history of the islands carved into their trunks), is located 200 miles to the south, on the south-western coast of the island. Lotus Point, the largest city and main trading hub of the islands, is located on the south-western coast. 500 miles long and over 100 miles wide, the island is sizeable and home to the archipelago’s most notable settlements. The most populous of the Summer Isles, Walano is the northern-most of the three main islands.
The Summer Isles have occasionally banded together as one people, most notably in the Slavers’ Wars when they turned back the pirates of the Stepstones and Basilisk Isles who sought to turn the islands into a source of slaves, but these periods are rare. Instead they engage in ritualised combat resembling Westerosi tourneys, with the losers sent into exile. These rulers sometimes come into conflict with one another, but do not fight wars. The Summer Isles are divided into numerous small kingdoms, each ruled by its own prince or princess. From north to south the archipelago spans just over 1,200 miles and some 1,100 miles from west to east. The coast of Sothoryos lies an unclear distance to the south-east of Jhala. The northern-most island, Stone Head, lies approximately 750 miles south of the south coast of Dorne and about the same south-west of Lys, whilst the island of Naath lies some 500 miles east of Jhala. There are three major islands, (Walano, Omboru and Jhala), over twenty intermediate-sized ones and more than twenty-five which are too small to appear on maps but are large enough to host colonies of birds or small tribes of men. The Summer Isle archipelago consists of over fifty islands.
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