Nonestica

Nonestic Ocean redirects here.

Nonestica, aka Continent of Imagination
Oz and surrounding countries (note that east and west are reversed on the map)
The Oz series location
Creator	L. Frank Baum
Genre	Children's books
Type	Fairy Continent
Notable locations	Land of Oz, Forest of Burzee, Land of Ev, Ix, Mo, Noland
Notable characters	Wizard of Oz, Princess Ozma, Santa Claus

Nonestica, also known as the Continent of Imagination, is a fictional continent within L. Frank Baum's Oz universe on which the Land of Oz is located.

History

It is located in the fictional Nonestic Ocean and contains the countries of Oz, Ev, Ix, Mo (Phunniland), Noland, the Forest of Burzee, and the Laughing Valley of Hohaho, the unidentified Kingdom of Dreams and many others. Due to the course of Dorothy's shipwreck in Ozma of Oz on her way to Australia, it has been speculated that Nonestica might be imagined to be located in the Pacific Ocean between California and Australia in geographical position, but this is impossible to verify. It does, however, appear to be in the same hemisphere as Kansas.

The name "Nonestica" derives from the Latin phrase "non est," meaning "it does not exist." The name does not appear in any canonical Oz book; however, "Nonestic Ocean" does. The name "Nonestica" was proposed by Robert R. Pattrick for the name of the continental mainland. He proposed "Ozeria" as the name of the entire continent, including its islands.

David Hardenbrook's The Unknown Witches of Oz contains one of the most ambitious cosmographies of Nonestica and Baum's Oz universe yet attempted.

References

• Hardenbrook, David. The Unknown Witches of Oz: Locasta and the Three Adepts. Lakeville, MN, Galde Press, 2000.
• Moore, Raylyn. Wonderful Wizard, Marvelous Land. Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974.
• Pattrick, Robert R. "Oz Geography." The Baum Bugle, Vol. 3 No. 1 (May 1959) to Vol. 4 No. 1 (May 1960).