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Descartes Isle
Descartes Isle on the Sage Ocean
Large island in the Pelican Archipelago
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Information
Controlled by	Narya
Governed by	Prometheus
Navy color	Violet
Pets
Information about this island's pets is currently unknown.
Location
Kashgar Island (Tern Archipelago) Descartes Isle Cook Island
Outpost Medium Large Colonized Uncolonized Purchaseable chart Unpurchaseable chart
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Descartes Isle is a large island located in the Pelican Archipelago. There are two known routes from the island: Cook Island and an inter-archipelago route to Kashgar Island in the Tern Archipelago.

Contents 1 Natural Resources 2 Buildings 3 Government 4 History

Natural Resources

This island spawns stone and sugar cane. These resources can be bid on at the market

Buildings

Apothecary 

Quadratic Formula (bazaar)

Bank 

Absolute Value

Commodities market 

Des Shopping Cartes

Distillery 

One Fifty One Proofs (bazaar)

Brimstone Brewery

Estate agent 

Distributive Property (upgraded)

Furnisher 

Derivative Interiors (bazaar)

House

Rho House (left-facing row house)

Riemann Slums (right-facing shack)

Inn 

Multiplicative Tables

Iron monger 

Distinguished Points (bazaar)

Palace 

Rule of Signs (upgraded)

Shipyard 

Convex Hulls (bazaar)

Wave Forms

Tailor 

Taylor Series (bazaar)

Weavery 

Haarrr Weavelet (bazaar)

Government

Descartes Isle is currently controlled by Narya.

History

Descartes Isle is named for French mathematician René Descartes.

On a stone to the east of the market reads, "This island were fashioned by Mnemosyne".

The Descartes Isle navy was initially named "Somerset Navy" rather than "Descartes Navy". The name was changed in the first few days of the ocean.

Along with Lincoln Island, Greenwich Island, and Wensleydale, Descartes was one of the original four colonized Sage islands.

When Sage originally opened, there was no direct route from Descartes Isle to Kashgar Island (the route was from Cook instead). This was changed around March 7, 2006.

Descartes was transferred from Narya to Death's Banner on September 15, 2006 in preparation for the "Who wants to be Hades' Governor?" event.^[1]