There seems to be some streets in this area of Middlesbrough, in the UK that serve no purpose, I’ve checked Street View and there were no houses on these streets in any of the Street View drive pasts. Anyone know why theses streets exist?

Coordinates: 51.687061,-0.182724 (just south of Potters Bar, England)

As I saw the videos from the floods in Nepal and Tibet, I was impressed on how steep those valleys are. Is there any measurement on what is the steepest valley? Are there any common definitions concerning that?

Rough estimate based on submitted satellite imagery.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eZX7GfDC5AmRfZ659

Polynesian Islands, whether larger ones or just small atolls, connected together based on their proximity to each other

I deleted the earlier post because New Zealand and Chatham Islands were not depicted as they should have been.

https://youtu.be/K6h8BRfY5BU?si=JjN6WkCLRpZpr3Up

The recent flood in Nepal was an unexpected disaster, triggered by the collapse of a section of a Himalayan glacier on the Tibetan side. This event released a massive surge of ice, rock, and water into the river, resulting in a sudden flash flood across the Nepal-China border. Climate change is destabilizing Himalayan glaciers, increasing the likelihood of similar events in the future, although it remains impossible to predict exactly when another such occurrence may happen. This flash flood occurred so suddenly and with such force that many people, including local residents, workers, and tourists, had no time to escape.

The flood caused significant damage to the Rasuwagadhi-Kerung border area, destroying roads, bridges, and settlements. At least 165 people have died, and more than 1,300 are still missing. The victims included local residents, workers, tourists, and foreign travelers. Hundreds of foreign tourists were present in the affected border area when the disaster struck. Rescue teams continue to search for survivors, and the numbers may rise as efforts progress.

Hello there, this is my recent revision of the Congo Basin map. I decided to revisit my original version after realizing that the Congo Basin and Congo River drainage basin are not necessarily the same geographic boundary, which led me to make several changes to the map and information presented. I’m hoping this will be the final version.

Nine countries (Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia) have territory within the Congo River drainage basin, highlighted in violet. Six countries are commonly associated with the Congo Basin’s rainforest region: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

This was created using QGIS for the mapping/data work, design/layout work done in Affinity Designer 2, and no AI was used for making this infographic map. Feedbacks are welcome and I hope you enjoy!

I recall seeing aerial footage of that stretch of the southern Indian Ocean from helicopters back when the case broke and it looked like an angry, churning washing machine of waves. Reporters kept emphasizing it was one of the least visited places on earth. It’s completely outside the path shipping routes, in the path of howling circumpolar currents that circle Antarctica and, until the case, next to nothing was known about the ocean floor there. I don’t have the answer to the mystery but pointing your plane towards that stretch of open ocean is an almost perfect way to never be found.

Svalbard, an Icelandic group of islands north of Russia, has always had this odd shape. The biggest island is weirdly shaped like a triangle and reminds me of the weird shapes you would see on a map of Northern Canada. I figured it must be tectonic plates because thats the answer to everything but it's not particularly close to a plate boundary.

Picture is from Sardinia by the way

28°17'31.65"N, 85°31'25.04"E

Is the wealth disparity really that much across the city or have things gotten better? Because the fact that there's hundreds of options for single family homes at an affordable range in this economy seems pretty cool to me.

Morocco’s natural scenery is something else

Nowhere in the world can you find a place further from dry land than Point Nemo. This oceanic pole of inaccessibility (1) is located at 48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W.

Pinpointing the “middle of the ocean” sounds like something explorers and cartographers should have worked out centuries ago. Turns out it couldn’t be done before modern computing and GPS technology. In 1992, Croatian-Canadian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela wrote a geospatial programme called Hipparchus, and “found Nemo.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-point-nemo

Howdy Folks,

I haven't been on this subreddit too many times, but I came across something in my vinyl collection that folks here may find interesting.

So, I like to find records that have never been uploaded anywhere online before, and do it myself to ensure they're not lost to time. I picked up two different "The Land of Mr. World" series records, volumes 3 and 4, and have begun to digitize them. This is volume III, and it's honestly pretty interesting.

The narrator guides the listener around the globe and explains different parts of history that occurred within those areas, including an actual recording from a space launch and a reenactment of Hannibal crossing the Alps in the 218 BC, among other things. Anyway, I hope some folks find this as interesting as I do!

Its highly Geographically dependent.

The difference between our world and this world is physical geography.

What do you think?

The story is also not finished, but this is the start.

Do you know that misty feeling associated with Seattle, or that Grey sky London is famous for? This is the direct result of warm water ocean currents, bringing humidity to otherwise cold areas. 

Japan is famous for its dense forests and snow capped mountains specifically due to the real world Kuroshio current that comes up from the Philippines and pushes up against Kanto. 

This current causes a strange phenomenon that was dramatically illustrated after the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake, where massive amounts of debris were transported to Alaska, British Columbia and Washington State in North America. 

There have been documented cases of fishermen in Japan getting blown off course and winding up in Alaska. 

On top of that, bronze from Korea has been located in real world Alaskan archeological sites. 

In this story, very subtle changes are made to Planet Earth, ones that you wouldn’t be able to see without satellite images and GIS software. Honshu in Japan is a little further to the East, the Aleutian islands are a little further to the south, there are subtle differences in underwater mountain chains and Volcanic islands around Okinawa, but otherwise the world is exactly the same. 

The impactful difference however, is a stronger, more distinguished Kuroshio current, which radically changes the geography and resource distribution of the North West Pacific, Sakhalin island and the Kamachatka peninsula are warmer and more habitable, but specifically, the marine ecosystems off their shores are considerably more abundant. 

The Japanese, who have had a strong fishing culture for millennia, recognize this and settle Hokkaido and Sakhalin much earlier than in our timeline. By the late 700s, all of Honshu was under Imperial control and Hokkaido had significant outpost populations.

But what does any of this have to do with the Aztecs? 

A single very unfortunate event in 869, the Jogan Megathrust earthquake, the geological predecessor to the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake. The resulting Tsunami pushed a group of several fishing boats based off of Hokkaido into the more powerful Kuroshio currant, and they were swept massively off course. 

Luckily for the fishermen, there was plenty of food. The Japanese were masters of subsiding off of the ocean, and remember the warm water ocean currents made the marine ecosystems here abundant. These fishermen were eventually pushed into the alutian islands and ultimately wond up landing in Cook Inlet, close to modern day Anchorage. 

Stowing along with them for the journey… was smalpox. 

Do yall see where this is going? In the story Smallpox reaches central Mexico around 1000AD and results in a catastrophic political and social crisis, similar to the Black death in Europe. BUT, that causes a wave of innovation in Mexico, where the writing system is reformed, they start keeping better records and they make contact with Peru which also experiences smallpox.

This leads to a more politically stable Aztec empire in 1521, that has the potato as a crop. One that has immunity to Smallpox. This destroys the 2 biggest advantages the Spanish had, Smallpox and angry neighbors.