The Ibbenese are an Inuit-like people adapted to the cold, frequently described as hairy and short. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Ibben (also sometimes called Ib) is home to a hardy race of sailors. Adapted to the cold climate, they are very stocky and hairy. Ibbenese whaling ships are found as far away as the Narrow Sea and even the Summer Sea. The Ibbenese are a hardy folk who gain their livelihood from the sea, in large fishing fleets and particularly whaling fleets. Ibbenese sailors carving up a whale carcass on the deck of their ship. The Port of Ibben is on the island's south-eastern coast The island is slightly north of the latitude of White Harbor in the North, but its most northern point does not extend much farther than Skagos island.ĭespite these vast distances, the whale-hunting, Inuit-like Ibbenese travel very far across the world's oceans, trading across much of Essos and sometimes in Westeros as well. Ib is at roughly the same longitude as Vaes Dothrak and Qarth - loosely almost as wide on a map as the Red Waste is. It is irregularly shaped but is more or less longest along a line running from southwest to northeast. The island is very large, apparently near in size to Dorne or the Disputed Lands. The capital and major city of Ib island is the Port of Ibben (also called just "Ibben"). Understandably it has a much colder climate than the Dothraki Sea. Although far away from mainland Essos, Ibben is much too small to be considered a continent in its own right, so it is loosely considered part of Essos.