Because many people skim along the surface, only long enough to pull the same scriptures as others, whose models they imitate, a variety of interpretations of verses is almost non-extant. This pattern repeats itself with the Land of Nephi being traditionally:
To dispel these notions, we will show:
Is it important? In so far as understanding the geography, it's helpful. In so far as identifying land promises, no. If one locates the following points, then the Land of Nephi can be deduced:
In short, the Lands of Nephi were south and west of the River Sidon (not only south of Zarahemla), between the West Sea and East Sea, without a sea south of it. (The Sea South was only south of the Jaredite Land Northward, a fact 99% of the modelers who recognize the Sea South have wrong. See H38-Virus)