The Cairnsbruck islands are a fictional archipelago, an experiment in world making. They are located 60 miles from the coast of Norway- beyond the remote rocky escarpments of the Hebrides and the Faroes, on the fringes of the Arctic circle, surrounded by the winds and swells of the Norwegian Sea.
They are geographically similar to Iceland and the most southernly parts of Svalbard. They are a cluster of small, steeply cut outcrops of rock, once thought to have been joined as one land mass but separated by volcanic activity and tectonic plate shifts millennia ago. The earliest archaeological evidence suggests that the Cairnsbruck islands were inhabited from around 600 BC.
They are geographically similar to Iceland and the most southernly parts of Svalbard. They are a cluster of small, steeply cut outcrops of rock, once thought to have been joined as one land mass but separated by volcanic activity and tectonic plate shifts millennia ago. The earliest archaeological evidence suggests that the Cairnsbruck islands were inhabited from around 600 BC.
