Near Dillon (Montana) #1, 1998. Michael Eastman. #photography #landscape #clouds #weather #nature #geography
Near Dillon (Montana) #1, 1998. Michael Eastman. #photography #landscape #clouds #weather #nature #geography
I looked up funny British placenames (most of them are in England). There are some crackers.
Examples:
Bell End
Bitchfield
Butthole Lane
Cockermouth
Cocks
Fanny Hands Lane
Fan Y Bîg
Fingeringhoe
Great Bottom Flash
Great Cockup
Lickey End
Pants
Piddle Valley
Pratts Bottom
Rotten Bottom
Scratch Arse Ware
Sheepy Magna
Shitterton
Slag Lane
Tickle Cock Bridge
Titty Ho
Twatt
Wetwang
BTW every one of these are real placenames.
America of Gulf
#uspol #pol #geopolitics #geography #toponym
Synonyms: Thielland, Trumpistan
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Poland has 150 square km of desert created by medieval deforestation and the authorities can't decide whether to let the ecology recover or preserve it as a curiosity (I can't confirm the story that back in Communist times they filmed an Ancient Egyptian epic there before moving to Kazakhstan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert #geography #geology #reforestation
#Rewilding #Australia #GreenCorridors
"How Australia Is Turning 10,000 km² of Desert Green" [11:05 min]
by TruGeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8L5XUSOGM4
Quote by TG:
"Mar 2, 2025 #australia #geography #reforestation
Australia is home to some of the harshest deserts on Earth—scorching heat, extreme drought, and landscapes that look almost extraterrestrial. But what if these barren lands could be transformed?
In this video, we dive into one of the most ambitious reforestation projects in the world: the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor. Spanning over 10,000 km², this initiative is restoring degraded farmland, planting millions of trees, and bringing life back to one of the driest places on Earth."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 1/n
"To pay or not to pay: the role of fares in public transport"
Join us on March 20th for the final event of our 5-year project on #FareFreePublicTransport (FFPT), at LISER (#Luxembourg).
We'll bring together the state of the art of research into FFPT in Luxembourg, Europe and beyond.
Program & registration: https://www.liser.lu/to-pay-or-not-to-pay
If you’re not around, you can still join the opening and closing keynotes online! (Register to receive the link later)
Maps going cuckoo
Who's Kremlin South Florida
Location is key
#Haiku #MaraLago #Kremlin #Mappinjg #Google #Humor #Cartography #Geography #StateDept #Rubio #MarcoPolo
"Actually Existing Geopolitics of Urban Knowledge Production. Questioning the ‘From Anywhere’ of Urban Theorising"
By F. Governa & C. Iacovone
"the #geography of the places studied contradicts any claims of post/decolonising urban theory, of ‘urban theorising from anywhere’, of Southern, #subaltern, alternative urban perspectives, and so on."
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.70017
[map from the article]
How are vertical flows of commuting governed, planned, shaped?
by D. McNeill and A. Connor
"The article’s contribution is in its conceptual and empirical illustration of how the rhythms of urban crowds are tracked, calculated and structured by a range of experts; in turn, we can see how these experts have emerged as significant agents in maximising the ability to extract value from the built volume of cities."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980241263226
#geography #UrbanStudies
#PhotoOfTheDay is of the marker for Shorty's Grave in Death Valley National Park. Located in Badwater Basin, you can see that the elevation on the handheld GPS shows as -258 feet! Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America. The plaque is one of the two lowest benchmarks in the NGS database, along with the nearby Dayton-Harris disk.
This is why we have internet! A totally awesome #geography post for a completely futile reason. #GIS geek entertainment.
I'm reading this 1956 essay by Carl O Sauer, titled "the education of a geographer". It's a beautiful meditation on the disciplinary incoherence of #geography as a discipline, which was true back then, and is even more true today.
It strikes me is that I only came across the essay a few days ago, and I'm a PhD student in geography.
I feel that every university degree should have a required course about the history of the discipline it studies.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x
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#MapQuest #maps #geography #GulfOfMexico #ILegitCackled
"In a world where Apple Maps, Google Maps, and even Bing (yes, Bing) have bent the knee and rebranded the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, MapQuest has taken a different approach: pure, unfiltered chaos and hilarity. Introducing 'Name Your Own Gulf', the feature nobody asked for but everyone definitely needs."
Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs
"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
→ Mapping the Middles of the United States
https://www.maps.com/mapping-the-middles-geographic-center-us/
“The population center of the US has shifted considerably, moving from the East Coast in 1790 to southern Missouri by 2020.”
“[T]his #map demonstrates how that [middle] concept takes center stage in #geography. Whether by the inescapable march of time or the numerous ways we conceptualize and categorize the #world around us, there’s always more than one way to measure—and map it.”