It is a map of the possible, a cartography of the places where the human experiment might continue when the laboratories of civilization have burned down. Its location in the Southern Hemisphere places it opposite the primary nuclear targets of the north. The same isolation that made New Zealand a laboratory for bizarre evolutionary experiments—the kiwi, the kakapo, the absence of mammals that allowed birds to rule—now makes it a laboratory for human survival. It is the only continent with no indigenous human population, no history of warfare, no borders to dispute because there is nothing here worth fighting over. The places described here are the places where the carrying might be possible, where the seeds of whatever comes next might find soil deep enough to take root.