Completing rows/columns with the abyss

[koningco]

In my game there are points for every full row or column. Does anyone know we can complete the middle rows/colums where there is an abyss in the middle of the map?

[Ingoschi]

These are wasteland spaces, that are counted already as filled spaces like mountains.

[friendofblahaj]

Worth noting that although they count as filled spaces, they do not count as a terrain type for the goal which requires red cities to border three other colors. For the purposes of that goal, bordering a wasteland is like bordering the edge of the map.