Sources

Citations on the map are Part.Chapter — I.3 is Part One, Chapter 3 of the novel.

The novel

• Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (McGraw-Hill, 1969) — overview

Annotations and scholarship

• Brian Boyd, Ada Online — chapter annotations: I.1, I.2, I.3, I.5, I.42, III.8
• The Nabokovian — Estoty & Canady, Amerussia of Abraham Milton, Lute, Altar & Palermontovia
• History of Nabokov’s Antiterra — discussion thread, used only for cross-checking

Geography

• Natural Earth — the coastlines, rivers and lakes, unaltered

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