User blog comment:Multimate pnd/Why does everyone take the long way?/@comment-3119203-20120229032709

Well, if you look at the map of Reverse Mountain, there are four routes (one from each Blue) going up, and only one coming down. Unless you can somehow stop your ship at the top and slide the whole thing down the mountain, lower it to the ocean from the Red Line, and then sail across the oceans of the New World, then you won't be able to do that.

I personally wondered about the Marines wanting to get there with their own ships. My best guess is that they simply can't find it, or they can't land there. It might be an island with NO magnetic field at all, or the currents around it are so difficult to maneuver or so dangerous it is impossible to land.

There probably have been people crazy enough to do this. There are probably a lot of dead people at the bottom of the New World or at the top of Reverse Mountain now.