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Traveler’s Map of LANGUAGE A brass and drum saddle band

called the Callithumpians roams the


avenues on a deaf Triceratops who
ANCIENT PARTNERSHIP Acanthus, an
Ankylosaurus, supervises
the construction of
Sima, a
Brachiosaurus,
designs rooftops.
H
umans speak a lingua franca known

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ven before the first humans arrived, together they study a particular habitat of the

DINOTOPIA
only to the island, a blend of the many dinosaurs heard reports from the dolphins island, such as freshwater swamps, arid deserts,
enjoys the vibrations. monuments.
® languages spoken by newcomers. Some
words have a Greek or Latin base, as does cumspiritik
(literally “breathing together”), the Dinotopian
about the existence of a bipedal race of
creatures with a tolerable level of intelligence and,
most interesting of all, a dextrous hand with an
or rain forests. Most prestigious of all are the
skybax riders, who fly on the back of the gigantic
Quetzalcoatlus to survey the island from the air.
word for marriage or close friendship. A common opposable thumb. The first people brought with Not all dinosaurs participate in this harmonious Fleuron, a
salutation is “Breathe deep, seek peace.” them a remarkable knowledge of architecture exchange. The large meat-eaters like Tyrannosaurus
Dinosaurs have languages of their own, often and agriculture, along with other habits like rex live solitary lives in the Rainy Basin. They are Corythosaurus,
Produced by the Bureau of Expeditions
unintelligible to humans. The large sauropods express warfare, which took time to unlearn. A peaceful “hungry by nature, with no love for society and is a master of
GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY their states of feeling through upward and downward interdependence has developed over the centuries. no stomach for green food.” Travel through their
Jaspar Wogtwaddle, President gliding sounds, which can be reproduced by humans Just as the dinosaurs appreciate the skills and territory requires an armored caravan. Even then,
ornamentation.
And High Chairman with thumb pianos and xylophones. Hadrosaurs liveliness of Homo sapiens, the humans benefit vigilance, cunning, and an offering of smoked eels
Sauropolis, 2007 perform music with their human counterparts, who from the wisdom and gentleness of the ancient or shark meat is the price of safe passage.
have fashioned instruments to mimic the haunting beings who have successfully survived on earth for Elaborate masks of fierce tyrannosaurs adorn
Design and Production: Bingo Gwipper
Cartography: Almaron Dorsalplate
sounds. well over 100 million years. the festivals of pod villages like Bonabba and Water cannon mounted
Data Compilation: Enit Sickleclaw The Protoceratops multilinguous, a hog-sized In their early teens, humans may choose Chimeerney, which lie near the terminus of the on top swivel Diluvium Model IV
dinosaur with a beak like a parrot’s, is able to make to become apprenticed to a dinosaur partner; Cross-Basin Trail. Foot operated
Fact-Checker: Inspector Myops
Historical Advisor: Brokehorn the sounds of human speech and has undertaken the
pump Brachio Self Pumper
Art and Text: Judd Fumbleton role of translator and ambassador for humans.
• Aftercastle Fully articulated
• Esplanade heat armor

“A
• Gnomon • Beakhead

ll that once lived, here ever lives,” said a Pelledrine poet of • Widdershins
Estival • Breathing Tubes
Dinotopia’s enduring vitality of creatures and cultures. Sealed off from Azonthus • Osteo •

the rest of the world by a circle of storm-lashed reefs, the island hosts • Camaraton Bricolage

ek Gambrel • Fire Chief
a wide array of dinosaurs, whose ancient wisdom has inspired the Cre Wimple Springs •
Durnsmoor • • Goombadel
Abalonia •
Sparklebrook • at er Mudge Island Igneus Vinco
diverse humans shipwrecked on its shores over the millennia. illw • Diploville • Aliveria Spondylium
• Umbo
St • Gumley • Grindstone
A viewer atop the Tentpole of the Sky, a Tibetan citadel on the central high peak of • Doondawdle • Witheroot •
• Fireside Chipcharool •
the Forbidden Mountains, can survey rain-soaked jungles to the west, sparse plains to • Redwick
• Gullivant
the north, and dry canyons to the east, all fringed with a rugged shoreline averaging
100 miles distant. Hookwood Lacuna • Halcyon •

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• Mollusk Town
• Modular Cab

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This Noah’s Ark menagerie of Mesozoic life broke away from the Asian • Alidade

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Skirlton •
••• Stone Reliefs
• Snickerton
• Irenic •Callicos

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Bonabba •
subcontinent and was carried into isolation by continental drift. The dinosaurs

ia
• Strunius Krachong Island
THE CHANDARAN EMPIRE

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Pumice Town • • Chimeerney Sharpclaw Territory • Pogonip ••• Trogloton Caves

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survived the killing clouds from the meteor impact 65 million years ago by seeking • Gundagi • Nagwan
IR • Haemal Arch

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shelter in the vast caverns of The World Beneath. During the Ice Ages, a land bridge • Brumalia M Island
••• O RA TES
Buckram • Mount • C AS Cape Banamba

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invited mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other mammals to spread to the island’s Palace of Kings handara is the capital city of Dinotopia’s Within its city limits, Chandara has Dinotopia’s
Nephridium

Naranda
••• Omphalos Spiketail W
Marmor southeastern quadrant, and the seat of an largest population of both humans and saurians,
• Nidus
uplands, which were inhospitable to the saurians. • •
Raptortown Probosca Quarries Ko Veng
Pionaspsis ancient empire of the same name. By the including many of the exotic feathered maniraptors like
el Island
Nearly 6,000 years ago, when human beings first arrived, the stage was set for nE • Highnest

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• Therapsid e e r time of Arthur Denison’s arrival in 1862, Chandara Caudipteryx and Microraptor. Concentric canals and
Gr Rive Gulf Haraz

UL
• Carnassus • Farak Bima
one of the most remarkable civilizations on Earth to begin its glorious ascent. had fallen out of contact with the west. Leaders in broad avenues radiate like spokes around the central hub

SG
Kyun •
• • Skybax Camp Sauropolis, deploring Chandara’s lack of a democratic of the Imperial Palace. The exterior of this remarkable
Horsetail Grove

GI
Gammawamma • Sweetwater Lake Moss Valley
Bodu Kyun round table, officially closed the Belt Road to trade edifice is carved from white marble, while the interior

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Ahimsa •
Kuskonak • Gulf caravans, thus dooming cities like Ruhmsburg that had is lavishly painted with mythological scenes and exotic
Tarabi
• Vespertine thrived on the flow of goods. Desert guards on giant forms of calligraphy. In this remote and lofty height lives
••• Gorgonia
alls Edax
dell F
The village of Bilgewater • Burbleville
Gran Feeding
Grounds
• Slugmire Zygodact •
• Farrago Ruins flightless birds called Diatrymas patrolled the western the beloved and elusive emperor Hugo Khan.
• Family Tree
Trilobite Towers
fringes of the empire to evict strangers.
• Macula Gol Jafari • •
Greenglen • The city’s origins go back
•••
Jamborine • Mont Joliette •
• Amberclime •
Wild Canyon Gardens to 3855 BC, when it began
• Chester’s Hatchery
••• • Hardshell as a fortified palisade on the
Arboria • Scutemus
• Churmley • Diluvialis Powdertop• • Kangduk
Arduon • promontory above the Zhengtao
Dinglecreek •
River. An era of monument
Chapman’s Isle
• ••• Ahmet-Padon Ruins • building began a few centuries
• Snailshanks Valley Tutak Abad
Bilgewater • n
g
• Kleptodon Clan
later, culminating in masterworks
Jaggertooth Coast
• Wescott Sima ••• Gopuram Gate Serpentine
like the Temple of Ballakaloosh
Brinkman
Cliffs
Snug Cove
• • Whitestone Quarries ••• Ebulon •••Tomb of Mujo Doon Cathedral and the Dengahari Gates, designed
• Belluna Vagar Wastes • Inselberg
Baru • by the saurian architect-scribe
Shortstump Thanatolian Plateau Djhuty, who escaped Dinotopia in
Paleopolis• • Tokta Range • Dribbling Springs
• Jupe • Khasra
Neopylos 3107 and retired to Egypt, where
• Honely Hall • • Samarlak • Vorshatas
Advance † • Black Fish Tavern he became known as “Thoth.”
Palace of • Spiker • Ruhmsburg Mandapa •
the Winds er Rockslides • • Bogapur Several times in Chandara’s history,
Prince of the Seas † Riv
il a
the belt road
•Teleost waves of invaders have tried to
Royal Vanguard † Jub ••• Colossus of Zagur • Aleppo •• Neoknossos plunder its riches, but each group

Oneiros •
Blarney • Great Oasis has been converted and absorbed
Brackmaw
• Scuto’s Mill Swamp Pennacia Mearamy by the magic of the city. A group
Bow of ship • of giant carnivorous warrior-
• Pungdok
• Clockwork world map demonstrates monks lives in a monastery on
Struthius
• Jorotongo (1869) Pungdok and Shaoling Islands.
Silver Bay
Marlinspike’s Shaoling • a vision of Earth with continents
• Furble
cabin Atrox Clan floating apart like rafts.
SHIPWRECKED SURVIVORS Sleeping
• Middle
Wallop Grounds
• Fimli Baryonyx is proud of his teeth, which are well
cabin suited for catching fish. He insists on a careful

“H
sur

eavy seas, typhoons all day, Few have succeeded in escaping the island’s • Spindrift
brushing from his dental assistant.
d el

breakers all around,” gasped the treacherous ring of reefs, except for the Chinese Library Foremast platform Turtleback orrery models
• Bluebottle
sierra

logbook of the galleon Margaret sailor Qui Nong, who managed to thread
before she struck and sank on Dark Coral Point his improvised junk through the Whirlpool
• Tuckford the relative motions of
in 1641. She is one of over 450 shipwrecks Straits—one of the only exits—and bring his
Temple of the
Sun, Earth, and Moon.
known to litter the coastline of Dinotopia tales of giant reptiles to his people, who spun Swing
Dining Room ••• Demisaurians
since the first Abyssinian reed boats, Polynesian them into a rich dragon lore. • Caudalis
catamarans, and Mesopotamian quffas began Salvaged ships provide the building Telson •
venturing into its waters. material for villages like Bilgewater, Stufanto, Workshop Press down on a hand and the face
Ships’ logbooks frequently refer to the and Dinglecreek. In Neopylos, the main street
appearance of dolphins near Dinotopia, some is arched with figureheads. Black Fish Tavern spins around to frown or smile. A planispheric astrolabe
say beckoning the ships toward—other say harbors a tough crew of treasure hunters who for desert navigation
warning them away from—impending doom. scour the sea floor in submersibles. The richest
But the survivors of the wrecks agree on one region for shipwrecks lies beneath Dolphin Bay,
point: that the dolphins took great care to lift where Spanish galleons in search of El Dorado
them to the surface and guide them safely to were lost in 1572. But today these royal wrecks Four story slide
shore. Shipwrecked immigrants are called are well-guarded by bone-plated giant fish like
Galley (kitchen)
“dolphinbacks”; the first group was lost on a Dunkleosteus. Pedometers count the strides Telescopes made especially for butterflies A cylindrical speaking device with
spice voyage in 3874 BC. Meeting Room
of walking giants. and moths allow them to see across the room. an ammonoid amplifying horn
Twin stepped pyramids from AD 862 are the oldest Visitors from northern points of entry usually arrive on
Library
remaining structures of the city. A collaboration between barges crossing Sweetwater Lake to Mosasaur Harbor, whose Inspiration Tower
Egyptian, Mayan, and Javanese builders, they celebrate entry is flanked by two 30-foot-tall gold-covered statues. Banquet Hall
SAUROPOD Hide-and-Seek Gardens Upper Slide Pool
the knowledge of the Sun and the mystery of the Moon. In addition to the heavy barges carrying food, building DWELLING Little-Snake
supplies, and 50-ton sauropods, a variety of smaller canal Guardians of the Grand Big-Snake Slide
boats stand ready near Jugglers’ Plaza. Watery Way Fountain Water Slide
w at e r L a k e
eet Scribe HAVEN OF
Sw Arthur’s Sandboxes THE MUSES
Celestial Dome Laboratory M (inside) 30-Foot Wing Ambassadors (for visitors and students)
Shrine of Mystery OS Fireworks
The Code of Dinotopia, engraved on a tablet Quiet Jetty AS Doors
beneath the Celestial Dome, offers among Figures of Wisdom AU Poets’
R Dorms
its eleven gentle suggestions: Observe, listen, HA
Tower of Reason RB Pterosaurs Bridge of
and learn; Do one thing at a time; Sing Cargo Ship Water
Steep OR the Winds
every day; and Exercise imagination. Oriana’s Arena
Tower of Peace Street
Home Musicians’ Concert Hall (with “Dolphinbacks”
ARBOR Inn Jugglers’ Plaza Guest
H underwater windows) Flight
T ER Registry Platform
Serenade Bridge AQUA ST
Code of Dinotopia (inside) OU Dragon Horn Boat ADIU M Zig-Zag Path
Harper’s Barge
Sweetheart Gondola Dolphin
Point of Tour Boat Slide G AT E WAY Platform of the
Twelve Veils
No Return Masks Toys FA L L S

promenade
Puppets
Textile Arts

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Hadrosaurs Unreachable except by air until the Bridge of the

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AL Winds was completed in 1382, the Haven of the
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CANAL

CA
CA Ceratopsians
Muses is now a beloved retreat of poets, students, and
R Continuation newcomers to Dinotopia. The Banquet Hall, designed
Three Dimensional U
Labyrinth (inside) SA Shellis
of Cargo in 1645 by avian architect Miltweeber, features indoor

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YO Seed Bank Chute trees, laurel gardens, and hundreds of colorful birds.

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Daredevil Rock Hedge Maze

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House Tunnel Arcade GE s
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Microscopic
THUNDER Parade Plaza Dance and B OT c ur
Life Dining Commons
FA L L S
Mechanical Fitness UD i te
L O h
Good Fortune Bridge Marvels C w
Sculpture
During peak spring runoff, the
total volume of water passing down
the falls reaches 16,992 m3/sec Hot
(600,000 cfs), approximately four Baths
The Cargo Chute allows unpiloted rafts
times that of Niagara. Cargo Chute to move quickly downstream with their
rosy
supplies of trade goods. A few brave
Painting souls ride it from time to time, never
Gallery Round Cargo forgetting the feeling of dodging behind
Table Chute the curtain of Lower Thunder Falls.
Tröodon Hall Hall
Seedpod (Malik’s home) Observatory
Carved from massive blocks Street
One-Earth
of red granite, the twin lion
statues are the masterworks of GRA
Booraza Café
Wading Pool Fountain Museum of Clocks
Globe
parades and festivals
Chandaran sculptor Elmanazzar, ND P
RO M Avenue and Sundials
honoring the saber-toothed cats ENAD

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Saber Tooth E usy with leisure and leisurely with remind themselves that the idea, not the work,
that occupied the rocky island Cascades business, inhabitants of Waterfall City is to be cherished.
17,000 years ago. plan industriously for the celebration The Sun’s Hatchday on September 20 brings
(Water Tunnel Helicoid
The Hall of Microscopic underneath) of each new holiday. At the Lantern Festival a unique ordeal for teenagers initiated into the
Geochronograph
the lure of water Life contains four antique
“travelscopes,” large microscopes Overflow Drains
(inside)
on February 28, children and hatchlings are
allowed to stay up past their nest-time to light
way of knowledge: a 24-hour-long journey into
the Three-Dimensional Labyrinth beneath the
equipped with seats to take Originally built as a defense against Guardian of the a joyful array of candles with the help of their Pyramid of the Sun before emerging again into
Aerial Way

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ushing, roaring, gurgling: The spray of the waterworks on Fountain Avenue. scientists on micro-tours of the Frieze of parents, while their uncles, aunts, and care- the light of day.
high water after the devastating flood POLO
sound of water never completely Every evening the Aqua Stadium features a show worlds of phytoplankton and of AD 934, the Grand Promenade NGO Reconciliation creatures serenade them from the streets below. Of all holidays, none surpasses the Water
escapes the hearing of a citizen of performed by sea creatures and their riders, who zooplankton. is a favorite place for evening strolls.
RIVER Gilded Globe On the Day of Deep Rivers, wood-carvers Festival, which celebrates life’s debt to water.
Waterfall City. Three broad canals are named often make spectacular entrances to the Water whittle toy boats to send down the Cargo People, dinosaurs, and other land creatures
after the marine reptiles who assist the tour Arena on the Big-Snake Water Slide. Elaborate Chute on a symbolic journey of return to the dress in fish costumes and parade through the
boats and ferry visitors from the Mosasaur waterwheels in many households operate Window of the sea. To honor the inspirational muse on June streets, ending with a plunge off the Old Bridge
L OW E R
Harbor to outlying neighborhoods. A
network of subterranean waterways built
whimsical dishwashing mechanisms, designed
more with the intent of impressing dinner guests ARTS AND LETTERS Ever-Changing Vista
THUNDER
FA L L S
14, artists cover the promenades with intricate
chalk murals and then invite the rain, to
into Kronosaur Canal, where dolphins help
them back to land.
into the basement of the city once provided than cleaning plates.
a sophisticated water taxi service on seashell Even the city’s slang has evolved along a IMPORTANT HOLIDAYS
P
raised as the “jewel of the the Toy Museum contains several working Covered with a skin of silver and gold, the
gondolas, but it fell into disuse after some watery course: a dull fellow is said to have “silted polongo,” Waterfall City is phonographs from as early as 1654, the One-Earth Globe depicts the earth as it looked
difficulty with cave-ins. up”; an artist receiving inspiration has “hit the January April July October
Dinotopia’s western center of learning inhabitants of Waterfall City have little 120 million years ago, during the reign of 1 Celebration of the Fates 10 Day of Arthropods 4 Interdependence Day 2 Day of the Guardian Spirits
Hatchlings and toddlers frolic in the Wading green geysers”; and a self-taught student has and the arts, with ample provision for use for recorded music, instead enjoying the dinosaurs, and symbolizes the unity of 14 Blessing of the Vines 14 Dolphin Day 6 Water Festival 18 Day of the Horned Creatures
Pool near the Booraza Café or splash in the “filled his own basin.” visiting students and masters. It is the home live performances from a harper’s barge or all living things. Inside the dome, a gigantic
16 Hot Springs Thaw 24 Treecircle Day 14 Sun and Shadow Day 24 Festival of Air Creatures
23 Festival of Peace 27 Habitat Conference 29 Bonfire Night
August
of the immense central library, whose scroll- a dragon horn boat. At the Concert Hall water-powered cog mechanism slowly turns February May 11 Night of Falling Stars November
shaped books are written in the ancient alongside the Mosasaur Harbor, the seats the globe throughout the day and powers a 5 Feast of the Unveiling 4 Day of Sacred Wells 23 Cumspiritik Day 13 Fool’s Day

Insider’s Guide to dinosaur footprint alphabet. Most writing


is not even copied onto the scrolls, but
rather jotted in sandboxes by high-stepping
and stage can be lowered below the level
of the water, where visible through thick
glass windows, plesiosaur ballets accompany
timepiece called the Helicoid Geochronograph. 13
16
20
28
Day of Ancestors
Storyhearth Day
Day of Purification
Lantern Festival
9
15
19
28
Floral Parades
March of the Stegosaurs
Celebration of the Hatchlings
Honoring the Departed
25
27

2
Festival of Abundance
Bix’s Hatchday
September
Harvest Festival
14 Safe Harbor Day
22 Puppet Festival
December
10 Festival of Reason
ornithomimid scribes. specially composed aquatic suites. March June 8 Return to the Sea 15 Day of Compassion
In the midst of lighthearted homes of Human and saurian dancers from all 3
6
Doll Festival
Feast of the Centenarians
1
12
Children’s Day
Feast of the Wind
20
23
Sun’s Hatchday
Dinosaur Olympics begin
21 Candlelight Carnival

puppeteers and toymakers stands a sober across Dinotopia practice their art in a 17 Day of Deep Rivers 14 Honoring the Muse
temple that houses the Guest Registry, a scroll spacious palazzo overlooking Pliosaur Canal. 23 Friendship Day 20 Triceratops Day

where newcomers record their names and So lively are the Jamborini Assistant librarian Nallab, 25 Festival of Laughter

special gifts. Students in training to become Jigs that the ground-shaking one of the High Chairmen This map was inspired by:
habitat partners study the Demisaurian Epics, vibrations kick up waves in the ®

Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara


larger-than-life tales of half-human, half- Hot Baths next door. Quieter Written and illustrated by James Gurney
saurian heros. Deeds of the demisaurians pose dancing has evolved into
adorn the Uzgol Tapestries, removed to
Sauropolis in 1713 to protect them from
a rich vocabulary of gestures
performed by a human/saurian
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mildew. Renowned musicians, from pair to express the many moods

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ray heads gather at the Round Table Hall, where matters Hardcover: 101/4 x 95/8, 160 pages
the great Oombajeeva of nature. of official business are taken up for debate. Believing that the Publication: October 2007
stylist Gizelda Pepper to At the end of the day, power of suggestion is more enduring than the force of law,
the Turfwallow Tubamen of citizens may gather at the members of the esteemed assembly often say that a fool can manage
Gammawamma, got their start Dining Commons, where tables his own affairs better than a sage can manage the affairs of others. But
at the informal Musicians’ are set at three different levels the management of the city itself requires unending vigilance. The
Inn on Steep Street, and above the floor—the highest 4520 Main St.
force of the water undercutting the limestone foundation layer leads to
later performed under at 25 feet—and where musical Kansas City MO 64111

Waterfall city
frequent collapses, most recently in 1744, when the well-known Blue
Cornelius Mazurka in belching is encouraged as a 1-800-851-8923
Ruhmsburg. Though compliment to the chef.
Footprint Amphitheater Mist Ballroom slumped into Cloudbottom Gorge, fortunately without
loss of life. Dinotopia® is a registered trademark of BDSP, Inc. © 2007 James Gurney. For information about Dinotopia please visit www.dinotopia.com.

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