Coland Image Archive

This page contains many out-of-date images that once graced Coland's main page.

    This panorama of Coland was taken on the river as it flows southward out of the city.  The date is late April, 2003, and the image is quite possibly the most well-composed and beautiful image ever taken of the city.  Enquiries from post card companies are welcome.  In the foreground you can see Coland Harbor, the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, the Coland Police Station, the Bank of Diking branch office, and the New Iowa Engineering Company.  The airport runway is on the far right, and, in the distance, you can see Coland Palace.

20 April, 2003.  Buildings on the northern portion portion of the air force base.  (You can just see the edge of the runway in the bottom of the photograph.)  In the right foreground and working counterclockwise:  Coland Palace, the Tea House, the National Defense Office, the Irregular Pentagon, and Coland Gardens (which were just completed the day before).

20 April, 2003.  Here is southern Coland, seen from above.  The Parliament building is in the center of the picture.  The red building on the right (which sits just to the left of the Irregular Pentagon) houses the Supreme Court.  Continuing to the left, you will see the Infirmary, the Viceroyalty of Corey Sheriff's Office,  the Viceroyalty Militia Colonel and personnel wagon, the transporter room, and support vehicles.  The Coland Police Second Precinct is located behind the Parliament building.  On the far left is downtown Coland and Coland Harbor.

    30 December 2001.  This photograph from the river shows the Police out in force to provide security for the Parliament meeting.  As is often the case, dignitaries from Octan were present, and their aircraft can be seen parked on the tarmac to the right of the runway.

    30 December 2001.  An aerial photograph reveals full Houses of Parliament and the police lines.

    2004, late January.  One of the few aerial photographs of the entire air force base.  The big news at this time was the completion of the Executive Office Building, nestled in between the Supreme Court to its left and the National Defense Office to the right.  You will recognize most of the other buildings from the captions of the photographs at the top of the page (from April 2003).  You can also see that the Irregular Pentagon has been moved from its previous position (the position now occupied by the EOB) by Dikanian engineers using graviton-cable cranes and plopped in the middle of the street.  This feat of engineering allowed the IP to be fully functioning right up to the commissioning of the EOB and then to be saved for recycling.  You have likely noticed that the first half of 2004 was a cluttered time in Coland, as the engineers had not yet gotten around to another badly-needed feat of engineering known as 'paving an off-site parking lot.'  [For a history of the Executive Office Building and the Irregular Pentagon, see the bottom part of this page.]

2004, late January.  An unusual overhead photograph of the just-finished EOB construction site reveals its interior and that of some neighboring buildings.  The right side of the Irregular Pentagon is nearly bare; the Cabinet secretaries having moved out and taken their office furniture into the EOB.

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