Bralgu Insulae
What Bralgu Insulae is
Bralgu Insulae is an insula — an island — on Titan, 55 km across, centred at 76.2° N, 108.5° E. It is the 190th largest named feature on Titan and the 8th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Baralku; In Yolngu culture (Arnhem Land, Australia), the island of the dead and the place where the Djanggawul, the three creator siblings, originated. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2015, under the theme it applies to every insula on Titan. Of the 13 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Greek (3), Great Britain (2), Iraq (1), Italy (1).
What it would take to settle Bralgu Insulae
Titan scores 32.6 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 76.2° N, 108.5° E.
What this spot has going for it is water — inside the polar zone where Titan keeps its ice. What works against it is temperature — about -180 °C mean at this latitude.
Computed from Bralgu Insulae's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 74% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Titan (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Titan and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.
What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.
What is next to it
The largest insula features on Titan
All 13 insulae on Titan — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.