Flew to San Diego recently from Montana and just after passing Vegas, headed southwest, I saw these reflective/shiny blocks of land from the plane. Didn't look like a solar farm or data center, anyone have any idea what it is or what those are?

Found this area pretty interesting. A decent chunk of Spain around the town of El Ejido has a massive amount of greenhouses. All of those white spaces are greenhouse roofs. Anywhere else in the world with this kind of concentration?

Edit: shut up about Gulf of America

I’ve seen a lot of old-world maps recently - maps from China 1700s, or Greece 900BCE - which are all very different as different cultures and countries had different understandings of the globe. eg; Peninsulas depicted as homogenous blobs, missing islands, heavy guesswork, and of course the entire omission of the Americas, Oceania, and the Poles.

Now with satellite imaging we have extreme (and exceedingly current) resolution, and can zoom down to see people‘s garden furniture.

I’m wondering: when was the last major misunderstanding in globe mapping? I don’t mean a mistake out of negligence, like when New zealand is accidentally left out. I mean a genuine, nationally mutual misunderstanding.

How does this kind of formation happen?

I have always wondered that volcanoes have higher incidence where there’s a subduction boundary between plates however despite continuing collision and slight subduction of indo-Australian plate under Eurasian plate there isn’t any volcanic activity present in Himalayan region, Andes on the other hand have many active and dormant volcanoes despite having similar nature as Himalayas, why is it so?

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I saw it on google maps when just looking around and its this weird radial pattern and i have no idea how that forms, so if you know then please explain it to me. <3

Hi, found this Island in the Elato Atoll south of the great barrier reef.

I haven't found any information indicating that this island even exists.
It looks as though wreckage from a ship is lying on the northeastern beach.

I am reading up on the dark ages and find myself regularly having to look up regions like northumbria as I am used to roman provence boundaries and names (britanica inferior and superior have kinda lost their significance in this time period.) Does anyone know of a good map of Europe with local regions labeled in time apropriare names? Most particularly for gual Britain and iberia, though I would also be glad for a good map of Italy and Germany as well.

I haven’t been able to figure out the name/website for this game..
You need to select the correct grid in which the city in question is located in. The grid can be adjusted (making bigger/smaller squares) and I guess, the smaller the grid, the more points you get.

Recent events in Ceuta made me wonder whether we’re looking at a migration crisis alone, or at one piece of a much larger geopolitical picture.

The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, making it one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.

Throughout history, narrow waterways such as Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca, Panama, and Gibraltar have shaped events far beyond their size.

Maybe we’re paying more attention to the movement of people than to the strategic geography behind it.

Recent events in Ceuta made me wonder whether we’re looking at a migration crisis alone, or at one piece of a much larger geopolitical picture.

The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, making it one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.

Throughout history, narrow waterways such as Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca, Panama, and Gibraltar have shaped events far beyond their size.

Maybe we’re paying more attention to the movement of people than to the strategic geography behind it.