It would have been easy for Carl Barks to just use real or otherwise 'easy' and uninventive names for the multitude of locations the primary characters saw in his Disney duck stories. But Barks never took the easy way out as did most of his contemporary colleagues. He took the trouble to invent strangely suitable and plausible names for a great number of locations, and the sub-pages will treat you to some of these.
If you are used to reading Barks' stories in the original language you are, of course, familiar with most of the names, but you may not have pondered long about them. In that case you should take a moment to pause at the names presented, and you will very often discover how cleverly Barks chose them. Some pinpoint exactly where you are, others describe the locations, some are pure fun, and some require you to think twice. One example that covers all of the above is
Laguna Mountains. Not spectacular in any way when you see it, but think about it. Geographically the two words are diametrical contrasts, but in some strange way Barks makes the name work and have it sound both attractive and correct!
If you are not used to reading Barks' stories in the original language you are in for a treat. You may be looking at the original location names for the first time, so take your time. The names are not explained (who would attempt to explain a painting by Picasso?), but you are sure to open a door to an exciting new chapter in the stories - Barks' cleverly invented location names.

Notice: As you can deduct from the above, the sub-pages do not by far cover all of the names Barks used in his stories; only the most ingenious. They have been divided into a few main groups and they are all presented in alphabetical order within each group.

 

DUCKBURG
USA
ABROAD

 


http://www.cbarks.dk/THELOCATIONNAMES.htm   Date 2009-09-24