Thanks for the feedback, gang.

These islands are about the same size as England and Ireland, Japan or New Zealand. This was a test to see if I liked the scale and the level of weathering, and to see if I could create decent-looking mountains without using triangles.

The smoke plumes do look silly going in different directions, but I had something in mind for that at the time. I intended for this part of the world to be very windy and stormy. Some of the plumes follow eddies where warm winds from the southwest collide with cold winds from the northeast. I wanted to reinforce the idea that the weather can change without warning. Shy of including wind-direction arrows, I decided to install some active volcanoes and use their smoke to suggest that sailing around this island would be a real challenge.

Notice how I avoid any comments about rivers by not including any? More maps to come.