Editing Tailspins & Tiki Gods:Smoots Guide Ile Trouve (section)

=== Land ===
The out-reefs have mainly palm trees with brushy undergrowth. The hills roll up in lush grassland, until you reach the jungle highlands.
E'snui Werarawa, the volcano at the heart of the island, is slow and inactive. The natives don’t talk much about it. ''[The name is Maori for “That’s much too hot”, but that’s kind of between you & me. Make up a fakey “the Hill of the Earth’s Fury” translation or whatever! --Smoot]''

One of the reasons they don’t go up there is not because of taboo, but because the gases that leak from the caldera could knock a grown man out well before he saw it. And THEN he’d be in trouble.

Ile Trouve is not on Thomas Cook’s tours. It hasn’t been a place tourists sigh over. But the invention of the seaplane is probably going to change this: the lagoon isn’t great for big-tonnage ships, but it’s perfect for outrigger-equipped planes. (It has always been perfect for the Polynesian outrig-catamaran style boat and other light-draft vessels. The biggest ships simply have to stay outside the main lagoon and use lighter boats to get back and forth.)

It also means that everyone who stayed away because it was too far is going to be MUCH more able to get there.

''[NOTE: I’m going to leave it up to you whether it’s a volcanic island or a coral lagoon. My personal notion is that it has a lagoon, but isn’t just a lagoon. It has hills and such. It has a steaming volcano in the background, because why the hell SHOULDN’T it, in a pulp adventure! --Smoot]''