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Great Kirav is an island continent located in the upper temperate latitudes of Ixnay. {{wp|Temperate mixed forest}} and {{wp|Coniferous forest}} are the native vegetation across most of the landmass, though extensive areas have been cleared for cultivation over the centuries.
Great Kirav is an island continent located in the upper temperate latitudes of Ixnay. {{wp|Temperate mixed forest}} and {{wp|Coniferous forest}} are the native vegetation across most of the landmass, though extensive areas have been cleared for cultivation over the centuries.


===Topography===
Topographically, key features of Great Kirav include...
Topographically, key features of Great Kirav include...


The upper interior plateau of Great Kirav was heavily glaciated during the last glacial maximum, with the retreating glaciers leaving an abundance of lakes in their wake. The largest of these lakes form an arc across the upper-middle latitudes of the continent between the Eastern and Western Highlands, known internationally as the Great Kiravian Lake Belt and domestically as the Fresh Seas (''Miśnafara'').  
The upper interior plateau of Great Kirav was heavily glaciated during the last glacial maximum, with the retreating glaciers leaving an abundance of lakes in their wake. The largest of these lakes form an arc across the upper-middle latitudes of the continent between the Eastern and Western Highlands, known internationally as the Great Kiravian Lake Belt and domestically as the Fresh Seas (''Miśnafara'').  
===Climate===
Great Kirav has a varied but thoroughly temperate climate ranging from submediterranean to subarctic. In terms of thermal belts, the warmest areas of the continent are the thermotemperate and thermo-submediterranean southerly parts of [[Argévia]] and [[South Kirav]], while the coldest are high-altitude areas in the northerly reaches of the Western Highlands, which experience oroboreal climates, pushing into cryoboreal at the highest peaks. In lowland areas the coldest climates are found in supraboreal pockests of the inland Far Northwest and parts of the Northern Isles.


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