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Quick update about my new(and very early, pencil stages) WIP. Obviously, it's New Zealand. A group of islands we sometimes forget about, when we think about the world map. Hell, it has the distinction of being the country that is most often forgotten, in World maps (there's an entire subreddit on the matter).

In any case, I'm going to try putting in the Maori names, along with the English ones. To that end, New Zealand = Aotearoa, North Island = Te Ika-A-Maui (or, the fish that Maui caught), and South Island = Te Waipounamu (or, Maui's canoe). And if anybody's interested, the poem in the bottom right is (mostly) the first stanza of a real poem, titled "New Zealand" by J. Baxter.
(And yes, that is a lot of mountains. I'm aware of it).

As always, it's traditional ink to coffee stained paper, with an atlas used as a reference to create the actual outlines. Criticism is eagerly welcomed.