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I thought The Island of the Blue Dolphins was a WARM island!?

~☆~Autumn♥♥☔ wrote: "I thought The Island of the Blue Dolphins was a WARM island!?"


I just looked it up - it was set on San Nicolas Island, which is off the coast of Los Angeles, California.

So you're right! it must be fairly warm there. I am the creator of this list, but Goodreads, in their infinite wisdom, has repeatedly refused to give me "librarian" status, so I do not have the ability to delete books from a Listopia, or I'd take this book off. Maybe someone else can do it.

Nadine wrote: "Maybe someone else can do it..."

Removed.

BookLovingLady wrote: "Nadine wrote: "Maybe someone else can do it..."

Removed."


Thanks! :-)

I've removed The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland as it is not a novel.

Where should the cut off be between cold weather and tropical?

Island of the Blue Dolphins is not a tropical island, although it is more cool weather than cold weather. Do you want to cut off islands below a certain latitude, or should it go more by climate?

I added lots of books with islands in Canada, Oregon, Washington, Northern California, New England, and northern Europe. But what about islands as you get a little further south, like Shuttered Windows in South Carolina? Not tropical, but not cold either.

South Carolina gets colder in the winter than I'd like! Haha.
I'd say the 38th parallel in each hemisphere could be the cutoff, unless someone wants to research the temperature variations and climate. It doesn't have to be exact.

Rainbowheart wrote: "Where should the cut off be between cold weather and tropical?

Island of the Blue Dolphins is not a tropical island, although it is more cool weather than cold weather. Do you want to cut off isla..."



My original intent was that a "cool weather island" is any island that is NOT a "tropical island" or a "subtropical island." South Carolina is right on that line. When I look up a world map, it looks like the sub-tropics start at the bottom of North Carolina. So Bermuda, the Bahamas, islands off of the coast of Southern California and Baja California are all sub-tropical. Vancouver Island, PEI, Nantucket, Long Island, and barrier islands along New Jersey & Deleware are NOT sub-tropical, so they would count as "cool weather."

This was just meant to be a fun list of islands that are NOT tropical islands. Depending on where someone is from will change how that person defines "cool" and "warm" weather.

Yes, I agree it's just a fun list so I don't think it matters much.

Thanks! Just wanted to double check. :)