User:ChrisL123/Sandbox

A sandbox for possible new articles/changes.

=Atlantic Islands=

Television

 * The  series was originally going to be set in the Atlantic Islands, but the producers thought the Atlantic Islands were too populated to have a deserted island in it.

Other

 * The wikia Wikination revolves around a fictitious country, Lovia, that is situated in the Atlantic Ocean. (heh.)

Overall Contributors

 * 71.197.149.61 - Original creator


 * AirshipArmada - Initiator


 * Owen1983 - First adopter


 * Alexanders - Second and current adopter


 * ChrisL123 - Mapmaker


 * Granero - Contributed to and
 * Yankovic270 - Contributed to

Map Game

 * Denmark - Mister Sheen


 * England (UK) - ChrisL123


 * France - Granero


 * Italian States - CrimsonAssassin


 * Morocco - Benkarnell


 * Netherlands - Crystalbeastdeck09


 * Portugal - Parsifal br


 * Spain - BlackSkyEmpire


 * Sweden - Fedelede

History
The area was originally discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon. A legend, unlikely to be true, says he discovered it while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Although it is often stated that he sighted the peninsula for the first time on March 27, 1513, and thought it was an island, he probably saw one of the Bahama islands.

The land was unclaimed until June 1520, when Portuguese explorers, sailing through the Atlantic Islands looking for new islands, found Florida by accident. They claimed the land for Portugal and had brief battle with the natives living there.

Ponce de León returned with equipment and settlers to start a colony in 1521, but they were driven off by Portuguese and the native population.