As I said, there's no need to take your physical location into account. In theory everyone on those islands could just create a channel to ACINQ (or any other node) and things should be fine.

C_Otto

Ok. I understand. You don’t need 58 nodes you say? Only 1 node and all the wallets on the islands connect to that node?

So you don’t need a node on an island to connect that island?

Aren’t the islands then vulnerable that they can be disconnected?

Can all the people on all these islands just use the existing nodes?

Storyteller

bitcoin

Are current lightning nodes killing new small nodes?

I don't see the advantage of having many nodes. Why don't you create a single node that can be used from all islands? The internet doesn't really care about your physical location, and with international payments (or, at least, routes through international nodes) it doesn't really make a difference to have the first/last hop close to your physical location.