Thanks everyone for the kind words.

To answer the questions though:

I figured the snowy wastes looked a little boring so I threw a volcano there, a dormant one though of course. Because it is so close to the ocean, like Earth I figure it might form from the plates pushing up against one another.

For the compass rose I planned to make a more elaborate one but it was taking longer than the map to design so I scrapped it for now. I plan to change up the scale line too to make it a little more ornate and even the title.

And the alignment for the compass is more of a story issue than anything else.