Spot the difference and some wondering

[Snodge Snoodle]

So after trawling around the map recently I noticed an outcrop of mainland that looks to have once been bigger?

(I circled it in red on the right)



Upon zooming in I noticed that it looked similar to another much bigger part of the mainland on the other side of the map.

(circled in red on the left in the first picture)

 

Spot the difference

Interestingly even though the terrain has be terraformed and built on by their respective owners you can tell they were almost identical before the residents got their hands on the land.





Just a more zoomed out comparison of the two locations



 

So my questions are:

Was this once a bigger continent?

Why would they copy of a section of mainland and paste it over there?

Were those locations special for some reason?

Was it an overflow for busy times?

I know the Linden Homes continents are copies but this just seems odd.

I would love to know the story.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

The smaller land on the 'other side' of the map is the old teen grid.

The area you are wondering about has always been that way since the continent was enlarged to its present size.  That's the first continent.  You'll notice that the land itself is not squared off to the sim line, except where people have placed prims.  It's the water that is part of the sim that is and makes it look from a distance that it's not 'finished'.

[Aethelwine]

Interesting to see how much the sims correspond.

Some more information here:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sharp_Continent