In Ecuador there is a massive monument on the equator. When modern mapping techniques were developed, they found out that the monument was off by half a km. The real equator is beside this tour-bus parking lot, in a ravine on the other side of the wall. This was as close as I could get without climbing over the wall.
At its narrowest point, it’s only around 20–22 km wide and lies between Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan. Major highways, railways, pipelines, internet infrastructure, and military logistics pass through this corridor.
Its a very strategic corridor in india for trade and defense, why does it exist and how would india defend it at times of crisis ?
FACTS: The archipelago is considered the entrance and exit point of the Persian Gulf. Once a ship has declared a position of "Passed Quoin Inbound" the insurance rates for the ship will increase.
While the islands are currently uninhabited, they were once inhabited by the Bani Shatair.
While playing GeoGuessr, after several completely remote locations, I suddenly landed in Kota Bunga near Jakarta, Indonesia, and honestly got amazed by how beautiful this neighborhood looks.
The streets are full of colorful villas, artistic pavement, statues, perfectly maintained gardens, different kind of statues and rich flora everywhere. The whole place almost feels like a movieset.
Later I realized a much larger area nearby is build in a very similar style.
So now I'm curious is there interesting story behind this place, or this kind of style.
Is it mainly tourist resort area since there is a lot of hotels and rentable villas or do wealthy Indonesians actually live here?
Location: Kota Bunga, Jalan Raya Puncak - Cianjur, Ciloto, Cimacan, Kec. Cipanas, Kabupaten Cianjur, Jawa Barat
I am curious to know why they added virgin in name
OK, I realise "impressive" and "easily accessible" are quite subjective.
Let's say we use quantitative measures such as those based on angle-reduced height (like jut and rut), or on more complex functions like ORS/RORS/DRS. (So no "I'm from this place and my local hill looks really impressive to me".)
And let's define "accessible" as in you don't need to charter a plane/helicopter or mount an expedition to get pretty close: in the base area according to jut or in the peak-rut area, inside the domain with high DRS, or anyway somewhere you could reasonably call the base of the mountain or a similarly impressive close-up viewpoint. Bonus points if you don't need to drive a vehicle (nor have a member of your party drive it).
What comes out on top?
Looking at the list of mountains with the highest jut, there's a bunch of mountains in the Himalaya (and Karakoram and Hindu Kush) and in Alaska that are pretty inaccessible if you want to get up close. Annapurna (Fang) in Nepal and Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, the two highest-jut mountains, and other Himalayan mountains are actually reasonably accessible, in that you can join a guided tour to the base camp with no mountaineering experience, but it's still multi-day hiking and camping at high elevations in a place with limited healthcare access. Denali in Alaska is a national park and relatively accessible, but getting up close requires getting on a flight or mountaineering over glacier, as far as I can tell, and Alaska in general is a bit remote.
Mount Robson in Canada is the first mountain on the list of mountains by descending jut that I could find to be easily reachable: fly (in a developed, peaceful country no less), rent a car, drive to the visitor centre, walk a few km to the base. (But you do need to be able to drive and rent a car, as far as I can tell.)
The Alps (especially the Swiss and Italian Alps) have a lot of quite high-jut mountains that are extremely easy to access, with road and, notably, rail/bus access to the base, which makes them an outstanding destination, but nothing has a similar or higher jut than Robson.
Is there some mountain I'm missing? Is there any place that stands out if you use other objective measures like ORS or DRS?
Before 1990, according to Köppen's climate classification, many parts of the Balkans appeared to have a temperate climate, primarily Dfb.
However, now many areas have become subtropical, or Cfa, like Croatia and Serbia. Their climates have shifted from temperate to subtropical—it's incredible! What happened to cause such a dramatic change in the Balkan climate?
My bet is Erie, Pennsylvania.
This was the town that the Author Marc Brown grew up in. The climate and topography shown in the show match.
There is a lake with beaches in the show that mirrors Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie.
There is a mall called Millcreek Mall in the actual city of Erie.
The setting of the show has 4 seasons and gets snowy, which rules out the American South and much of the American West, leaving only the Midwest or Northeast as possible options.
It is called Ary-Mas and is located in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia.
I've never been to China, but whenever I see images of it, it's either the flashy megacities or the empty ghost-towns in the middle of the semi-desert area. What's in between? European countries have mostly liveable rural areas with temperate forests and farms. If I think of rural Germany or rural France I have a very distinct image in my head. The US midlands is huge farmlands with a well connected road system and small towns.
What is rural China and the Chinese backcountry like? I don't really see any images of it and there are no google street views images. What's life there like, what do people do in smaller towns or villages?
Immediately, I thought the Sea of Azov. It's deepest point is usually regarded to be only 14 meters deep and it's enormous.
I also thought the brazilian coast of Amapa and Pará, that because of the sediment brought down by the amazon river, there's a huge platform of silt and sand north of the amazonian fan, that at some sections is just a couple of meters deep at kilometers from the shore.
Are there any lagoons, lakes, pools, bays, seas, reservoirs or any bodies of water you know of that are also extremely shallow(less than 50 - 100m depth) and extremely large(wide and/or long) at the same time?
that's basically it. i am quite bored and if yall have any questions about anything spain (or not) related i will answer at the best of my ability.
I know mountains are formed at continental boundaries through uplift and folding, or horsts and grabens etc. but how do these wide yet still mountainous and rugged regions form?
The glacier is situated between the Saltoro Ridge to the west and the main Karakoram range to the east, with altitudes ranging from 3,620 m to over 7,720 m. It is often referred to as the "Third Pole" due to its vast ice reserves, and temperatures can drop to -50 °C (-58 °F) in winter, with snowfall exceeding 1,000 cm annually. The melting waters of the glacier form the Nubra River, a key tributary of the Indus River system
I’m curious to hear about the other countries in red as well. I imagine Brazil is losing parts of the rainforest due to wildfires and other issues
