"Fancy a world with pink clouds! I wonder what there is on the other side." The next moment they saw.

Just below them at a distance of about five earth-miles lay an irregularly triangular island, a detached portion of the Continent of Huygens almost equally divided by the Martian Equator, and lying with another almost similarly shaped island between the fortieth and the fiftieth meridians of west longitude.

The two islands were divided by a broad, straight stretch of water about the width of the English Channel between Folkestone and Boulogne.

Instead of the bright blue-green of terrestrial seas, this connecting link between the great Northern and Southern Martian oceans had an orange tinge.
The land immediately beneath them was of a gently undulating character, something like the Downs of South-Eastern England.

No mountains were visible in any direction.