r/geography

I was looking at Thunder Bay from Apple Maps and I saw this. I assume it’s some sort of sandbar or something but it looks kinda weird. Does anyone know what it is? If it is just sand is there a reason it looks that way?

Mainland Greece is not widely recognised as a peninsula (apart from the peloponnesus) today, and it is often lumped together with the rest of the Balkans (which is not a true peninsula anyway, more of a cultural region).

My POV - Mainland Greece is a peninsula in its own right, extending out from while still belonging to the cultural *region* of the Balkans.

It closely fits the actual definitions of a peninsula, it is surrounded by water on 3 sides and has a relatively small one sided land connection.

It is orientated outwards towards the Mediterranean rather than the continental interior.

Where does it begin? In my opinion from the mouth of the Vjosë river in Albania to the mouth of the Aliakmonas River in Greece (Haliacmon on this map). Shown by this Red Line I have drew.

You could make a claim it starts lower down at the narrowest point or just cut a line across the widest. But I think it’s best to use a geographical feature to define it.

So here’s my submission - The Hellenic Peninsula

~Charles

Defining the boundary of this one seems easy… so shall we just have a discussion about Crimea?

Geographical facts, history, anything.

Boundary clearly at the narrowest point of land between Crimea and Kherson.

Changzhi city is located at the foot of the Taihang Mountains. Whereas Henan province is considered right at the heart of the fertile Central Plains

His Royal Majesty King Charles III acts as monarch for a total of 15 counties, this plus the British Overseas Territories means that the rule of the monarchy extends to all 7 of the Earth's continents, over a region so vast that the Earth can do a full 24-hour rotation with the sun never setting on it.

The last sunset can be traced back to 1608 with the establishment of the first colony in India by the East India Company meaning a continuing 418 years without a sunset for the British Crown!

Long reign Charles III:

King of the United Kingdom

King of Canada

King of Australia

King of New Zealand

King of Belize

King of the Solomon Islands

King of Jamaica

King of the Bahamas

King of Papua New Guinea

King of Saint Kitts and Nevis

King of Grenada

King of Saint Lucia

King of the Scots

King of Gibraltar

King of Jersey

King of Bailiwick

Duke of Lancaster

Duke of Normandy

Lord of the Isle of Mann

Supreme Governor to the Church of England

His Majesty’s Colonies:

Gibraltar – Europe

Akrotiri and Dhekelia – Europe

Bermuda – North America

British Virgin Islands – North America

Cayman Islands – North America

Anguilla – North America

Montserrat – North America

Turks and Caicos Islands – North America

British Antarctic Territories – Antarctica

Falkland Islands – South America

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – South America

Saint Helena – Africa

Ascension Islands – Africa

Tristan da Cunha – South Atlantic

Pitcairn Islands – Oceania

British Indian Ocean Territories – Indian Ocean (On 99-year lease from Mauritius)

King to the Empire upon which the sun never sets

King of the Commonwealth which extends to over 20% of the planet and 35% of all humanity

Head of the admiralty to the world’s second most powerful fleet

November 1^(st), 2028 will mark 420 years and 69 days without a sunset for the crown

Long to reign over us! God save the King!

May the sun never set on the British Crown!

 

 

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Sharing , just in case people still don’t know where this country is located
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I've been exploring ny for the past few hours and I realized nys is pretty not developed when it comes to upstate new york, when I refer to upstate new york, I mean anything within the close border of Canada and new york, withing this region its relatively flatter compared to the rest of ny upstate. For example anything withing this region of Canada has major cities like Ottawa and Montreal while anything within ny im this region tends to have only farmland, again I repeat upstate im talking about is the area/ region that borders between Canada and NY,i know that its two separate countries so thats why integration from the Canadain development makes it harder, but what about San Diego and Tijuana or Vancouver and the American suburbs close to it, Buffalo and Fort erie, or Detroit and Windsor

Anyways this is just a random question that popped up in my mind and im curious i posted this post like few mins ago and a lot of people were mad so I decided to remake it and make it clear what was considered upstate ny

By geography I mean things like climate, fertile land, navigable rivers, access to the sea, natural harbors, natural resources, defensibility, and location for trade. Ignore current politics, institutions, and economic development.

What would be the reason for the formation of this gap?

Feel like the obvious answer is sea depth but I’m usually wrong about these things so wanted to confirm