Royalty income is usually the real profit center for a franchisor because of the leveraging ability. For example, imagine a franchise company owns 100 franchised outlets, and each outlet does $30,000 in monthly sales and pays a 5% royalty to the franchise company. That means $1,500 is paid by each franchisee, resulting in $150,000 paid to the franchisor each month (or 100 outlets x $1,500).
Whangara, setting of Whale Rider (film & novel), is located on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Whitireia = the Maori meeting house built at Whangara in 1939. Pai names Whitireia in her Paikea chant in the Whale Rider film.
Assateague Island is an Atlantic coastal island which straddles the Maryland / Virginia line. Its halves are separated by a fence which runs along the state boundaries. The island is inhabited by two herds of Chincoteague horses. The herd on the Maryland side of the island is managed by the National Park Service. The herd on the Virginia side is owned by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company which has a grazing permit for the animals.