Brobdingnag

BROBDINGNAG, the imaginary kingdom of giants in Jonathan Swift's classic Gulliver's Travels (1726), appears to be situated along the BC coast. Gulliver is travelling in the S Pacific when his ship is blown off course by a storm and ends up far to the east "so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of the world we were." The map accompanying the story indicates that Brobdingnag is north and west of Francis DRAKE's supposed landfall, which may well put it off the north coast...

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