Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley route map

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus map, route, chapters, and distances

This page collects the full Mapped Fiction route for Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The interactive map follows the journey from St. Petersburg to Arctic ice pack, while the notes below make the route crawlable and easy to audit.

Chapters 1-28

Route segments 7

Mapped distance 8,604 km

Travel media 4

Route overview

The mapped route uses Sea voyage, Road and coach, Mountain foot travel, European travel. Distances are either explicit in the source, geodesic between known locations, or estimated from the route notes where the title gives a fictional or approximate path.

Walton toward the Arctic: St. Petersburg to Arkhangelsk, 733 km by Sea voyage.
Victor leaves Geneva for Ingolstadt: Geneva to Ingolstadt, 488 km by Road and coach.
Return from Ingolstadt to Geneva: Ingolstadt to Geneva, 488 km by Road and coach.
Alpine confrontation: Geneva to Chamonix and Mont Blanc, 64 km by Mountain foot travel.
Companion-making journey: Geneva to Orkney laboratory, 1,599 km by European travel.
From Orkney to the Irish coast: Orkney laboratory to Irish coast, 739 km by Sea voyage.
Creature pursuit to the north: Geneva to Arctic ice pack, 4,493 km by Road and coach.

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Chapter maps

Primary source

The map is grounded in Project Gutenberg #84. Source links on route and chapter pages point to the relevant chapters or scenes where available.