Frostlands

The Frostlands are the vast frozen wastelands and primarily dead territories that surround every settlement in Frostpunk. Before a Beacon is built, they are neither visible nor explorable.

While human survival is exceedingly tough and rare in the Frostlands, some Arctic flora and fauna have definitely survived the winter (some of it posing a threat to the few human survivors). Most points of interest are former human locations that either migration or calamities have now left empty.

Scouts can explore the Frostlands and retrieve both resources and people from its many ruins and deserted locations. It is also in the Frostlands that most Steam Cores can be found.

Trivia
One of the locations to explore near Winterhome lists the distance to London as "1,937 miles." This places Winterhome, Tesla City, and New London on the island of Svalbard, north of England and the dividing body between the Barents Sea and Greenland Sea.