Talk:Island of the Jewel

Other forms of the name
Don't really belong in the article, but worth mentioning here to help find references. Italian: l'isola delle pietre preziose (ǵazîrat al-ǵawâhir); l'isola dei Giacinti (ǵazîrat al-yâqût). — Llywelyn II   23:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Coördinates
For the curious, 2°N, 173°W would roughly site this island at Charlotte Island in the Gilberts (Kiribati) if it were in any way equivalent to the modern system. It's not, though, and we shouldn't give a coord template for it without some source that goes through the trouble of explicitly adjusting al-Khwārizmī's prime meridian, circumference of the earth, units, and degree length to their modern equivalents. — Llywelyn II   00:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Sri Lanka
is given separately, although this could simply be a phantom duplication along with/instead of a first go at Formosa, Java, &c. This Italian source records "Huen-tsang" (Xuanzang)'s report that "Seilan" (Ceylon) used to be known as "Ratnadvipa", which he glossed as "island of jewels". — Llywelyn II   00:43, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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