Geography

The Three-Country Cairn

The Three-Country Cairn Today, let’s travel to a triply intriguing geographic location. Connotatively, we use the term Scandanavia to refer to the Nordic countries. This collection can include Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. Sometimes we even toss in Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Aland, an autonomous region of Finland. However, the strictest definition of Scandanavia includes […]

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Chicxulub

Chicxulub Geologists recognize five major extinction events since life emerged on our planet. Each of these catastrophic periods wiped organisms from Earth, usually to the tune of more than 75% of all living species at the time. One such occasion, the Permian–Triassic extinction event, eliminated between 90-96% of species from existence! The one most people

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The website logo, featuring a string of black mountains, capped in snow, with a setting sun behind the range. The title "The Mountains Are Calling" across the bottom.

Crimea

Crimea Few spots on our blue marble have demonstrated a more important geographical significance than Crimea. Recently in the world consciousness again due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula sits at the confluence of waters, continents, and, seemingly, history. Across the ages, countless nations and peoples have called Crimea home and fought

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Maine

Maine by Deborah Stout As Kyle has mentioned in a few of his articles, we are new parents!  Since he has been working hard on keeping the newsletter going while also learning to be (a great) dad, I thought I would gift him a break by writing a guest article.  I chose the topic to

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Point Nemo

Point Nemo Way back in Episode #32, we explored Poles of Inaccessibility. These geographic curiosities are the spots on continents or countries that are the farthest from some criterion, usually the ocean. In North America, the point farthest from any major sea lies in South Dakota, 1,030 miles from salty water. We can also measure the

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South America

South America A snapshot of Earth today in its tectonic evolution shows seven landmasses known as continents. Though there are no strict criteria for exactly what constitutes a continent, broadly we define them as large bodies of crust that sit on top of plates. Our planet’s upper reaches are comprised of tectonic plates that move

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Poles of Inaccessibility

Poles of Inaccessibility   The place on Earth that’s farthest from an ocean is in what nation? A: Canada B: China C: Central African Republic If you answered with China, give yourself a round of applause. The Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility is in China, near the border with Kazakhstan, and that pole happens to be the continental

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