The Magic of Oz™

Nonestic Ocean

The Nonestic Ocean is the sea that borders Rinkitink and Pingaree.

First named in Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 1

Nonestic Ocean washes the shores of the Kingdom of Rinkitink, between which and the Land of Oz lies a strip of the country of the Nome King and a Sandy Desert.

Where this is

  • placed Beyond the desert 1 chapter

    stated in The Gnome King of Oz, ch. 4

    As for Oz, you are in the very middle of the Nonestic Ocean and about as far from Oz as you could possibly be.” “You mean to say you’ve been here five years?” gasped Peter incredulously, “and nothing has happened in all that time?” “Nothing--but you,” answered the Gnome King.

What the books say it is

  • region far to the Northwest 1 chapter
    • This great body of water lies far to the Northwest and mighty few Ozites have ever reached its shores.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 11
  • region outside-oz 1 chapter
  • size great 2 chapters
    • If you have a map of the Land of Oz handy, you will find that the great Nonestic Ocean washes the shores of the Kingdom of Rinkitink, between which and the Land of Oz lies a strip of the country of the Nome King and a Sandy Desert.
      Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 1
    • This great body of water lies far to the Northwest and mighty few Ozites have ever reached its shores.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 11
  • colour purple 1 chapter
    • The canopy of leaves, high overhead, formed a shelter from sun and rain, and the dwellers in the grove could all look past the straight tree-trunks and across the grassy slopes to the purple waters of the Nonestic Ocean.
      Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 1

Appearances

Rinkitink in Oz (6 of 24 chapters)
Kabumpo in Oz (3 of 22 chapters)
Grampa in Oz (3 of 22 chapters)
The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1 of 20 chapters)
The Gnome King of Oz (5 of 20 chapters)

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