Small, random questions about RotE that still bother you (spoilers all RotE books)

['thul]

1) Where exactly are the pirate isles? At first I thought that they were the islands along the Cursed Shores, like Last island, Shield Wall island, etc. Then it seemed like they weren't actually on the map as islands, but as a gray area that appeared to be mainland. Which one of these more closely matches the book?

The pirate isles are outside the cursed shore, but not on the outer edges... They're hard to map since they're constantly shifting, so a non-constant count, with irregular sizes... The region they cover is between bingtown and jamilla.

2) Is it at all possible that Gernia and the Six Duchies/Bingtown continents are actually on the same world? Any hints to this or to the contrary?

That thread Farseer linked has proof (somewhere) that they are not on the same world. The level of technology is too high in Gernia... Magic there also has too many things that do not fit into the RotE magic system...

3) Why aren't the OutIslands on the map?

No idea. Perhaps because of that Out Island law on charts and maps? (charts only on sea animal skin, maps only on hide of land creatures) But they would have been placed a good distance out from the near islands.