Creatures Caves

I was looking at the bell tower in C2 earlier and it occurred to me that there's actually a big brass bell in C1, too: it's kind of in the background, next to the Gelsemium plant. I started to notice other similarities, too, some of which seemed very interesting. I've been wondering for a while if there was a way to correlate the geography of the two games, and though other people might find this interesting, as well.

First, look at the big stone structure supporting the bell. It has animal heads all over the top, which was also a feature of the C1 temple with the music player. That could mean the desert is where the jungle used to be, which would make that yellowish dead tree by the ocean the Grendel Tree. I guess it was killed by the eruption.

This makes a lot of sense because right underneath the dead tree, and slightly to the right, is the cave area where the submarine surfaces. Coincidentally, right underneath the C1 Grendel Tree (and slightly to the right) is a cave area where the C1 submarine surfaces.

In C1, the cave area was at ground level, and immediately to the left of it was a stretch of jungle. In C2, immediately to the left of it is the Norn hatchery, which has some very jungle-ish plants. Could this be Albia's old surface? Does the cave area underneath the hatchery, the section with the arches, correspond to the underground passage with the raft?

Assuming the ocean with the submarine in C2 is the same one we see in C1 that has the pirate wreck--interestingly, it looks like a treasure chest survived all this time--that would make the tropical region with the palms, just to the right of the ocean, the tropical island in C1 that had the umbrellas. It looks like the coconuts survived, as did the bubble-dome, which actually forms a terrarrium now (the one with the venus flytrap).

Coincidentally, the ocean to the right of that is where the "Statue of Nornia" used to be in C1, and that long glass tube leading to the lighthouse--the glass tube now forms a bridge leading from the swamp treehouses to the Shee laboratories, although the lighthouse seems to be gone completely.

I have a theory about the Statue of Nornia, by the way. When you think about it, the Shee statue is almost directly underneath the ocean where the Statue of Nornia once stood. Do those glassy eyes and celestial hairdo look familiar, by any chance?

To the left of the lighthouse was Lover's Leap, which had an old well (which is no more) and a wimpy little waterfall emptying into a pond. My but that waterfall has GROWN! There's still a big mountain in the background, but the whole city/incubator area has been reduced to a gaping hole spanned by a wide rope bridge.

Anyway. That's how I see it. Can anyone find any other similarities?