Places
The codex names real places. This is the public record — photographs and bathymetric charts and satellite frames of the actual sites. Vostok is in East Antarctica. Kola is a welded hatch on the tundra outside Zapolyarny. The Tibesti is in Chad. The strangeness is what the cosmology adds; the geography is shared.
[from the public record]
Refugia
Geographies the cosmology names as substrate-side. The deep places — subglacial, abyssal, deep-crust, basalt-trap, deep-Sahara — where the Bell footprint is theorized to extend.
Vostok Station & Lake Vostok
78°27′S, 106°50′E — East Antarctic Plateau — Russian research station; subglacial lake beneath ~4 km of ice
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 3. The Observers Above
Mariana Trench & Challenger Deep
11°22′N, 142°35′E — Western Pacific — deepest known oceanic trench; Challenger Deep at ~10,935 m
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 2. The Operators, Several Kinds
Kola Superdeep Borehole
69°23′N, 30°36′E — Kola Peninsula, near Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast, Russia — deepest artificial hole on Earth
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 3. The Observers Above
Putorana Plateau
69°N, 95°E — Central Siberia, north of the Arctic Circle — basalt trap 800 × 500 km, near the geographic center of Russia
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 3. The Observers Above
Tibesti Mountains
21°N, 17°E — Central Sahara, northern Chad — shield-volcano range with hot springs
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 3. The Observers Above
Atlantic Abyssal Plain
30°N, 40°W (approx.) — Floor of the North Atlantic — vast, largely unmapped abyssal terrain
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 2. The Operators, Several Kinds · 3. The Observers Above
Clarion-Clipperton Zone
0°–20°N, 110°–160°W — Central Pacific — abyssal seabed-mining region between Hawaiʻi and Mexico
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 3. The Observers Above
Apparatus sites
Twentieth-century military and intelligence installations the cosmology threads through. Operational record, not classified material.
Wright-Patterson AFB
39°49′N, 84°02′W — Greene/Montgomery County, Ohio — United States Air Force base, headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command
referenced in:
2. The Operators, Several Kinds · 3. The Observers Above · 7. 1956 — The Bilateral
False Cape State Park, Virginia
36°36′N, 75°53′W — Atlantic coast of Virginia, south of Virginia Beach — undeveloped barrier-island state park
referenced in:
2. The Operators, Several Kinds · 7. 1956 — The Bilateral
Tonopah Test Range
37°47′N, 116°47′W — Southern Nye County, Nevada — restricted USAF/DOE test range, ~625 sq mi
Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
34°36′N, 106°22′W — Central New Mexico — small range south of Albuquerque, immediately east of Kirtland AFB
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 3. The Observers Above · 4. Maintenance · 7. 1956 — The Bilateral
Holloman Air Force Base / Alamogordo
32°51′N, 106°06′W — Otero County, New Mexico — Tularosa Basin, adjacent to White Sands
Tularosa Basin / Trinity Site
33°41′N, 106°28′W — Otero, Doña Ana, Sierra, and Socorro Counties, south-central New Mexico — closed basin between the Sacramento and San Andres mountains
Religious-channel sites
Sites where the cosmology's 'religious channel' — Marian apparitions, observatory infrastructure — touches the public record.
Castel Gandolfo & the Vatican Observatory
41°44′N, 12°39′E — Alban Hills, Lazio, Italy — papal summer residence; Specola Vaticana headquarters
referenced in:
15. The Containment of Revelation
Fátima, Portugal
39°37′N, 8°40′W — Cova da Iria, Ourém municipality, central Portugal — Marian apparition site, 1917
referenced in:
15. The Containment of Revelation
Devils Tower, Wyoming
44°35′N, 104°43′W — Crook County, northeastern Wyoming — Bear Lodge Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest
Low-fidelity zones
Places associated with recurring anomalous phenomena in the popular and academic literature — the geography only, not the phenomena.
Mosquito Range, Colorado
39°15′N, 106°10′W — Central Colorado — north-south range between the Arkansas and South Platte drainages
referenced in:
1. We Are the Substrate · 4. Maintenance
Marfa, Texas
30°18′N, 104°01′W — Presidio County, Far West Texas — high desert plateau, elevation 1,475 m
referenced in:
4. Maintenance · 15. The Containment of Revelation
Hessdalen Valley
62°47′N, 11°11′E — Holtålen, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway — narrow north–south valley at ~750 m elevation
referenced in:
4. Maintenance
Uintah Basin, Utah
40°05′N, 109°30′W — Northeastern Utah — structural basin between the Uinta Mountains and the Tavaputs Plateau
referenced in:
4. Maintenance
Mount Shasta, California
41°24′N, 122°12′W — Siskiyou County, far Northern California — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,322 m
referenced in:
4. Maintenance
Bermuda Triangle
25°N, 71°W (approx. center) — Western North Atlantic — region bounded approximately by Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda
Brown Mountain, North Carolina
35°56′N, 81°56′W — Burke County, western North Carolina — Pisgah National Forest ridge between Linville Gorge and Lake James
Mount Adams, Washington
46°12′N, 121°29′W — Yakima and Skamania Counties, southern Washington — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 3,743 m; second-tallest peak in Washington
Sedona, Arizona
34°52′N, 111°45′W — Yavapai and Coconino Counties, central Arizona — Verde Valley, Red Rock country, elevation 1,372 m
Mount Diablo, California
37°52′N, 121°54′W — Contra Costa County, Northern California — isolated peak of the Diablo Range east of the San Francisco Bay, 1,173 m
Joshua Tree, California
33°51′N, 116°18′W — San Bernardino County, southern California — high desert at the junction of the Mojave and Colorado deserts, elevation 800–1,200 m; gateway to Joshua Tree National Park
The Devil's Sea / Dragon's Triangle
25°N, 142°E (approx. center) — Western Pacific — region of the Philippine Sea south of Japan, approximately bounded by Tokyo (Honshu), Iwo Jima, and Guam
Literary settings
Towns and landscapes where the codex's first-person narrators wrote.
Tonopah & the Mizpah Hotel
38°04′N, 117°14′W — Central Nevada, high desert on US 95 — silver-mining town; Mizpah Hotel built 1907
referenced in:
2. The Operators, Several Kinds · 7. 1956 — The Bilateral · 15. The Containment of Revelation
Asheville, North Carolina
35°36′N, 82°33′W — Buncombe County, western North Carolina — Blue Ridge Mountains, elevation ~650 m
referenced in:
15. The Containment of Revelation