End of the world - does the Dark One not get a vote?

[hroþila]

A thousand miles is only the difference between Denver, CO and Houston, TX. (Sorry anyone not familiar with US geography). It's not the distance between continents, unless the OOTS world is MUCH smaller than ours.

Of course, it depends on what he means by "more than" a thousand miles. If he means "two thousand miles more than a thousand miles", then yes, he might be from the North, but somehow I don't think that's what he means.

A thousand miles is a significantly larger distance than the 7,7 miles that separate Europe from Africa, or, indeed, the 0 miles that separate Europe from Asia, or Asia from Africa, or North America from South America (in case you don't consider the last two to be a single continent).