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	Counterweight Continent - Biocrawler
		The Counterweight Continent is a landmass on the Discworld, the fantasy world that is the setting of Terry Pratchett's fantasy novels.
		It is smaller than these other two landmasses but acts as a counterweight because its crust is made up largely of gold and octiron, both dense, heavy metals.
		The Counterweight Continent is home to the large and extremely rich Agatean Empire, which more or less leaves the rest of the Disc alone.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Counterweight_Continent (146 words)

	Counterweight continent - Discworld & Pratchett Wiki
		The entire continent is governed by the Agatean Empire, whose capital city is Hunghung.
		Geographers and philosophers had long inferred the existence of such a continent, as in order to make the Discworld "work", it was taken as given that there must be a more-or-less equal weight on the shoulders of all four elephants.
		However, the Counterweight Continent turned out to be smaller than expected, yet the centre of gravity of the Disc remains constant.
	wiki.lspace.org /wiki/Counterweight_continent (169 words)

	counterweight - OneLook Dictionary Search
		COUNTERWEIGHT : Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
		Phrases that include counterweight: counterweight continent, counterweight fly system
		Words similar to counterweight: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterpose, counterweighted, equaliser, equalizer, counterweighting, tare, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=counterweight&ls=a (162 words)

	Counterweight Continent - The Aurient - "The Place Where The Gold Come From"
		A small, mountainous continent, said to be made of gold.
		Not much trade takes place between the Counterweight Continent and the rest of the Disc.
		The main country on the Counterweight Continent is the Agatean Empire.
	www.angelfire.com /bc2/disc/counter.html (62 words)

	Continent Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first distinction between continents was made by ancient Greek mariners who gave the names Europe and Asia to the lands on either side of the waterways of the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles strait, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus strait and the Black Sea.
		Continents are portions of the Earth's crust characterized by a stable platform of Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rock (typically 1.5 to 3.8 billion years old) largely of granitic composition, called the craton, and a central "shield" where the craton is exposed at the surface.
		The margins of the continents are characterized by currently-active or relatively recently active mobile belts and/or deep troughs of accumulated marine or deltaic sediments.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Continent.html (3761 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Interesting Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Agatean Empire is a fictitous country that occupies the Counterweight Continent of Terry Pratchetts Discworld.
		The Counterweight Continent is a landmass on the Discworld, the fantasy world that is the setting of Terry Pratchetts fantasy novels.
		Upon his arrival on the Counterweight Continent, Rincewind is reunited with a companion of his previous adventures - Cohen the Barbarian.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Interesting-Times (2413 words)

	Two-Wire Transmission
		When a lever is moved, the tension in one wire is made greater than in the other, and the force is transmitted to a wheel at the function, which rotates to carry out the function, after which the tensions in the two wires are again equal.
		The compensator is the mechanism that maintains the tension by means of a heavy counterweight for each wire of the pair.
		This relative motion is stopped by the jaws, which are operated by any relative motion, clamping on the rod, which holds the counterweights fixed as long as the tension is different.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/rail/2wire.htm (2455 words)

	Balancing act (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Counterweight continent rest on the opposite side of the Disc to the larger continent where most of the books are set.
		Much of the continent is under the jurisdiction of the empire.
		Gold is very common on this continent but it is not the Gold which counterbalances the weight of the vastly larger unnamed continent that the circle sea is found near.
	www.geocities.com /ganondorfl/count.html (143 words)

	Region
		World Factbook Entry: The Counterweight Continent is smaller than most other major land-masses but acts as a counterweight because its crust is made up largely of gold and octiron, both dense, heavy metals.
		The Counterweight Continent is home to the large and powerful Rogue Nation of Melmitea, which more or less leaves the rest of civilization alone.
		Counterweight Continent is home to a single nation.
	www.nationstates.net /-1/page=display_region/region=counterweight_continent (199 words)

	Ankh - Morpork Times
		The continents have certainly moved around (possibly on wheels of some kind, if the molten rock theory is discounted).
		Inspection of residual magic in deep sea rocks and very old trolls suggested that it was also around this time that the Discworld changed its direction of spin, a phenomenon that appears to occur every hundred thousand years or so, possibly for the comfort of the elephants.
		However, the appearance of a denizen of the continent at unseen university (unfortunately extremely dead because of the extreme swiftness of the journey and the suddenness of arrival) and the almost as fiery appearance of the wizard Rincewind in a red land of gum trees, suggests that it may also be real
	web.telia.com /~u85614818/discworld.html (2096 words)

	Fantasy-Fan
		Interesting times is a story of the Counterweight Continent Empire.
		The old emperor is dying, five houses stand ready to fight over the succession, great battle hangs in the air.
		The plot of the book is as usual very interesting, characters well know from other Discworld books (Rincewind, Cohen The Barbarian to start with) make an outstanding performance and everything else is just as good as in other DW novels.
	www.fantasy-fan.org /print.php?sid=383 (246 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Interesting Times
		The disc, being a disc needs to be balanced, and to do this job the counterweight continent is around, but it's smaller than the one upon which ankh morpork is situated on...
		There are people who think the peasants are tired of their poverty (not that the peasants were asked they are only peasants after all) so up the revolution, and forwards the red army.
		In response to this the counterweight continent sends a pointless albastross to Vetinari, the Patrician, with a message: Send the great wizzard or else, and rincewind being the only "wizzard" is sent.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A872273 (239 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Last Continent
		Forecks is the 'Last Continent', built after the others by a creator who doesn't like to see vast expanses of ocean.
		Made after the other continents by a creator who likes to come along and fill up large expanses of sea, space and time have been 'twisted to fit'.
		This particular wizard is Rincewind, currently on the continent Fourecks, and constantly falling into waterholes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1122472 (572 words)

	TerryPratchettBooks.com
		A mysterious place to be certain, but some of its secrets have since spilled forth in the novel The Last Continent (by the way, "XXXX" is the manner in which it's written on the maps, since no one knew what it was supposed to be called).
		A vast dry red continent, where water is so scarce everyone has to drink beer.
		Once inside, gaze in wild wonder at its violation of physics with seemingly endless rows and shelves of tomes magical and otherwise—theoretically all of the books in existence, as well as those that were never written.
	www.terrypratchettbooks.com /discworld/dollar.html (660 words)

	Giant Desktop Globe - TheKolWiki
		Certain continents look much more threatening than others, but the overall effect is startling.
		It rolls forward and crushes you under one of its larger continents.
		It rolls forward under the counterweight of its counterweight continent and smashes you up against the wall.
	kol.coldfront.net /thekolwiki/index.php/Giant_Desktop_Globe (511 words)

	Terry Pratchett Message Board: Discworld Quiz Show 2!!
		Hex has a small miscalculation when he is bringing Rincewind back from the COunterweight Continent.
		It is caused by the Lady and her butterflys.
		So, the cannon is sent to the Counterweight continent, Rincewind is sent to XXXX and a Kangaroo is sent to UU.
	www.terrypratchettbooks.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000060;p=2 (320 words)

	Excerpts from the Discworld Roleplaying Game
		He became guide to the Disc's first serious tourist, fell off the edge of the Disc, discovered that the great spell was actually using his brain as a hiding-place, assisted in the defeat of a Sourcerer, travelled to the Dungeon Dimensions, through time, and to Hell, and went cheerfully insane on a desert island.
		The closest thing he has to a truly useful supernatural ability is a sense of danger, coupled with long enough legs to try and put it behind him.(1) Unfortunately, the metaphysics of the Discworld guarantee that someone with so little interest in crisis situations will find himself endlessly at the centre of them.
		For some time, he owned (or at least, was accompanied by) the most lethally malicious Sapient Pearwood Luggage in the history of Agatean carpentry; it is unclear whether it is still following him, or whether it has settled down romantically since it got back to the Counterweight Continent.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/books/Discworld/excerpts.html (1776 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Last Continent
		Terry Pratchett lives in Somerset, England, where he spends all his time, and more, writing his rigorously naturalistic, curiously entertaining, shamelessly popular Discworld novels which have earned him extravagant acclaim and puzzled stares from millions of readers around the world.
		Terry Pratchett's latest novel, The Last Continent, is not about Australia.
		No simple task when you consider that some of the books in UU's library literally have a life of their own.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/last56.htm (763 words)

	Review of INTERESTING TIMES by Terry Pratchett
		Content, that is, until the wizards of the Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork send him to the Counterweight Continent where his presence has been urgently demanded.
		The Counterweight Continent is in the midst of a crisis.
		Rincewind is something of an everyman--wanting only to stay alive and certain that any good luck he manages to hit can only foretell disaster.
	www.booksforabuck.com /sfpages/sf_06/interesting_times.html (340 words)

	The Discworld Compendium: the Books
		The Discworld cycle is a creation of Terry Pratchett and is copyrighted by him (I'm using the names and all only to make people buy the books, honest!).
		It describes the Discworld (as if you couldn't guess), concentrating in most books on Ankh-Morpork, the Lancre kingdom in the Ramtop mountains and the country of Death.There are also one-book excursions to places like Klatch, Sto Helit, Tsort, the Counterweight continent and so on.
		Meanwhile the Quisition plans to conquer the continent and stamp out those that think that The Turtle Moves.
	www.extenuation.net /disc/books.html (3456 words)

	Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
		Interesting Times treats readers to another encounter with Rincewind, the Discworld's not-terribly-good-at-wizardry wizard, Cohen the Barbarian (Gehnghiz to his friends), and Twoflower, the tourist from the Agatean Empire on the Counterweight Continent -- to say nothing of the Luggage.
		Readers of the first book will recognize all of these characters, but not too much will be lost to those
		This is probably not the best book to start your exploration of the Discworld, but readers familiar with the series will find it interesting indeed.
	www.rambles.net /pratchett_times.html (397 words)

	Ex Libris Archives: Terry Pratchett
		The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic concern Rincewind's travails while guiding Twoflower and his Luggage about the Discworld.
		Twoflower is the Disc's first tourist, a native of the Counterweight Continent; his Luggage is simply unspeakable.
		These two books mostly poke fun at the sword-and-sorcery genre of fantasy, and are widely regarded as the weakest books in the series; Pratchett gets much better as he goes on.
	www.wjduquette.com /authors/tpratchett.html (995 words)

	Discworld MUD - Creator domains
		forests blanket the continent, and octiron is found not too far from
		It is definitely not the place for a tourist.
		Empire's only coastal city), the Counterweight Continent is waiting for
	discworld.atuin.net /lpc/creating/domains.c?domain=cwc (243 words)

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