The islands are mainly low-lying except for some sharply rising sandstone mountains in the centre of the island and rugged cliffs on some western coasts. Nearly all parts of the island have lochs, but the watercourses are merely streams draining the high land. The coastlines are indented, and the island themself is divided from each other by straits generally called "sounds" or "firths".
The tidal currents, or "roosts" as some of them are called locally, off many of the isles are swift, with frequent whirlpools. The islands are notable for the absence of trees, which is partly accounted for by the amount of wind.
Gotkolh is filled was once filled with many species of unique plants and creatures, from wich nowadays most of them are extinct and all endangered. Still, on the human occupied area of the island there are still hundreds of unique species found.
Gotkolh has an abundant supply of accessible mineral and silver supplies. The historic and archaeological record of the island demonstrates a history of mining dating back at least till 70 AAA, making the island one of the earliest non-elvish civilasations making use of steel.
Fishing was always a great part of all people's of Gotkolh since agricultural land is scarse and often then not unfertile for planth growth. That's why almost all civilisations on the island are on the shore. The gnomes of the Gotkohl City have even gone the extra mile with fishing, devicing special nets, called Elevator Nets. . These are shore operated lift nets. Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets with diameters of twenty metres or more. The nets are dipped into the water and raised again, but otherwise cannot be moved.
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