[aruanan]

I wonder why they'd name a place Fairyland packed with numerous upright formations that looked as though they were in past hot spouters.

[cogitator]

I wonder why they'd name a place Fairyland packed with numerous upright formations that looked as though they were in past hot spouters.

Chuckle. According to what I gleaned from the Web, the name "Fairyland" comes from GOSA publication (in 1993, I think), and the name came from a fanciful connection of the shape of the features to hobbits, elves, gnomes, etc. Perhaps, given the connotations of "fairy", a better suggestion would have been "Middle Earth Basin"?