Continuing with the speculation of hypothetical locations for Lilliput and Brobdingnag, the location of Lugnagg described in the book as located about 100 leagues southwest of Japan. However, as opposed to finding the precise location of entities in the previous two sections, "southwest of Japan" encompasses a huge area within the Micronesian islands, a group of approximately 2100 islands over an area 7.4 million square kilometers. This makes the search for a precisely matching island extremely difficult. In addition, many of the Micronesian islands were not known to the European realm until the journeys of Cook. However, the Magellan encountered the Marianas during his circumnavigation around the world, suggesting one of the Marianas islands as the location for Lugnagg.
The location for Lagado on Balnibarbi is obscure, however; a general region cannot even be inferred.
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