Friends, help me expand my geographic knowledge.
Tell me a fact about your geographic sub-region of your country. (Not the country, please. I’m looking for ways to associate map places.) This can be a state, province, county, prefecture, city, barangay, barrio.
Tell me a fact about your geographic sub-region of your country. (Not the country, please. I’m looking for ways to associate map places.) This can be a state, province, county, prefecture, city, barangay, barrio.
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Or if you were from Singapore, you might explain where that house from Crazy Rich Asians was.
This doesn’t need to be where you live now & it can be as general as you feel comfortable with.
Our most famous ex Mormon women are Eliza Dushku and Roseanne Barr.
Pictures and maps welcome. :)
Story link: https://reactormag.com/blue-morphos-in-the-garden-lis-mitchell/
Art:
- I have lived in a fair number of places in NA: Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Alberta, California (Sandy Eggo & SF), North Carolina, Massachusetts, & Washington.
- my dad used to toss me a globe & tell me to find places like S. Georgia Island
- I like to draw and paint maps.
But my primary reason for not abandoning Twitter is the robust epidemiology Twitter community there & the covid conscious folks. It replaced my CDC needs.
The not-grown-in-yet grass looks like hair plugs 😂
I believe in building a better future, but you’ve got to know your past first.
Geography is influenced by so many made structures that need interrogation.
It lies on the Hudson River, bordering The Bronx to the south.
Yonkers is one of two municipalities in Westchester County that opted not to become incorporated into the City of New York in 1898.
That said, we have more national forests than any other state and a canyon deeper than the grand.
Oh and we trained astronauts to be ready to walk on the moon.
* not sure how to pronounce the 'ce' in Worcestershire? The answer is at the end of sauce.
Some places are flag places. Others are not.
Flag places: US, Switzerland, Indonesia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden
The UK is a medium-low flag place now (which is funny given Eddie Izzard’s but): flags on occasions but not nearly as much as some.
Please note I did *not* say tropical rainforests.
Some of the giant sequoias of Northern California sprouted before the Roman Empire was founded. They depend on forest fire for propagation.
They can often be seen in aerial imagery, but also jump out in LiDAR-derived topographic models, which recently revealed a previously unknown one in a residential neighborhood in the middle of Columbia SC
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter_Buttes
As you enter the town from the freeway there is a 90 ft/30 meter tall cross on the roadside. It's an eyesore of a territorial marking for a horrible town full of horrible people.
The Hoboken Historical Museum used to sell t-shirts with that saying. I wore one when traveling home after cons.
"Stringing along the North Carolina coast ... the Outer Banks holds a special place in North Carolina’s history and geography. As barrier islands, they protect the mainland from the brunt of storms..."
( SW Washington)underwent a catastrophic & deadly eruption, triggering the largest landslide ever recorded. Earlier that year, 1000s of small earthquakes, venting steam,& a growing bulge protruding 450 feet (137 m) indicated that magma was rising in the volcano.
Above average wet.
Mostly mild winters.
Factoid learned in junior high: finally deployed in relevant context!
If you live in Michigan, you're 85 miles away from a great lake, except for Ontario. Ontario is further away.
(We are not the *coldest* by far! Fairbanks and some North Dakota universities are much colder. Lake effect moderates temperature as well as providing snow.)
https://www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/countryside/finder/danebury
The area also has very similar soil to Champagne so we can make very similar wine.
The mountains to the east have a "bench" that was the beach of an inland sea, lake Bonneville.
The climate in the valley is arid. In the mountains (north facing) it's alpine, several feet of snow each winter. Drive for an hour in any direction, be in a completely different ecosystem.
It has, of course, many karst features, including caves & sinkholes. 1/
There are also huge springs like this one—the average discharge is 4.3 cubic meters/second. It’s not the largest spring in the region:
Lots of wetland, cattails growing in ditches alongside the road.
Brick tends to be a brownish red, not a RED red, altho some buildings have yellow brick (usually but not always w/tiled roofs). Limestone tends to be grey, not yellow.
Chicago has trains that are elevated, under ground, and a few at street level.
Streets are laid out mostly on a grid pattern with a few diagonals and some streets that curve due to the river. If the city looks old AND has streets in a grid AND has a river? Could be us!
Hills are man made, of construction debris or garbage.
(Probably a different experience actually driving tho.)
If you see a gorgeous limestone building that has a cream or yellow cast to it then it could be Chicago.
Chicago bricks are a whole thing. When old brick buildings get knocked down, people will be paid to collect the old bricks (knocking off old mortar) for resale & reuse.
A local ice cream company used to sell a mix called Chicago brick, with orange sherbet, vanilla, and caramel. Still available a few years ago
Chicago has TIGHT electric codes. Very restrictive.
https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1833297
It’s mostly suburbs now.
My sister in law says that when it was orchards in the 60’s and fuzzy sweaters were the fashion, the freeze warning was the sign to NOT WEAR the fuzzy sweaters.
I do know about the Saskatchewan jokes, as I spent some formative years in the province next door. :)
Were you east or west?
Also, I recently discovered (from a SK mapmaker based out of Val Marie) that we have 3 impact craters in SK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Springfield,_Massachusetts#/media/File:Storrowton_Green,_Eastern_States_Exposition,_West_Springfield_MA.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchfield_(borough),_Connecticut#/media/File:First_Congregational_Church,_Litchfield,_CT.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold,_Connecticut#/media/File:First_Congregational_Church_of_Griswold_CT.JPG
https://patch.com/ohio/twinsburg/ev--first-congregational-church-of-twinsburgs-190th-a3be592b0e1
But when we lost the top spot for Least Friendly City, people were absolutely outraged and vowed to try harder.
My body loves more temperate climes but apparently my personality loves warmer ones.
Within Arizona one can drive I-10 and I-17 and observe the west, north, and east boundaries of its habitat. In spite of environmental similarity, they refused to cross the Colorado River to eastern California.
But it’s gonna be nothing compared to climate change felling them in high heat droughts. :(
They rely upon nocturnal temps to be low enough to perform certain metabolic processes and it never cools off enough so they basically suffocate.
The riders met at Midway, FL
It became Tallahassee either because of the Cascades or because of a tavern.
It’s cursed
The city center of Rio de Janeiro used to be under the shadow of a low hill, on top of which it’d been founded. The hill was torn down in the 1920s-30s and became part of the landfill of Flamengo, which is a park reclaimed from the sea.
It was also built roughly at the farthest southern extent of the glaciers in the last ice age.
(vocab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle) [2/2]
They're found east of Buffalo, north of Binghamton + Elmira (inclusive), west of Utica (inclusive), and south of Watertown (invlusive)
Iowa, Ohio, and NC tend to have pockets of more orthodoz Quakers
SE Pennsylvania still has a substantially-higher-than-US-average Jewish population, and this also drove early Amish + Mennonite settlement (most famously in Lancaster county)
"Ah," says I, "that's because the entrance is halfway up the building and you were at the bottom."
and found that the road intersection I'd planned to turn at
was vertically separated by about 50'.
Side note - the ideal time of year to visit is late April to June, before peak tourist season. And the weather is usually better too :)
(I live in Seattle—grey does not bother me.)
Fortresses there had to be able to defend the "nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie", a series of fortresses and flood able areas intended to protect Holland in war.
That kind of geographical fact.
Thank you for the links.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane%27s_Tracts
The mill is gone now, but the ex-company town remains.
The story of Sumas Lake
Home to 4 volcanoes, 3 active.
Where the beginning and the end of the LOTR saga was filmed + some in between.
Vertical habited range from 150-1100m. Highest village, school, fire brigade in NZ.
~50% national park or other protected land.
Home to our 2 biggest ski fields.
The longest continuous bridge in the world is here. The Lake Ponchartrain Causeway, built in 1956, clocks in at just over 23 miles across the lake, and you can see the curvature of the earth as you drive the span.
The architecture of the French Quarter isn't French at all, but Spanish. Most of the wooden French buildings were burnt to the ground in the Great Fire of 1788.
The Tremé is the US's oldest Black neighbourhood. Congo Square is its public space, now part of Armstrong Park, and Storyville was carved out of it from 1897-1917. It's where jazz, Mardi Gras Indians, and the second line were born.
(The area is also one of a very few places in the US where a drinking fountain is called a bubbler.)
Through an art project to celebrate the turn of the century and their newly acquired city status, they decided to paint many of the buildings in the city blue. They even trademarked the nickname "The blue city".
Erie's deepest point is still above sea level.
My town is also known for being the birthplace of bubble wrap.
Beyond SA, Bolivia, & the Netherlands, we also have: Sri Lanka, Benin, Chile, Cote d’Ivory, Georgia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Swaziland/Eswatini, Yemen, & Tanazania.
This… may or may not be true
It also has a cemetery containing 2.5 dead presidents.
Now, it is part of the Hudson River, even thought its geology and orogeny is completely different than the river that rises from Henderson Lake in Essex County, NY.
Bringing things back around: Tucson's dark skies also benefit the local wildlife, including the nectar-feeding bats who pollinate saguaros.
There's another one under Portland, Oregon, but it has stopped volcanoing
It's be The Weakest Linmk for real for Auckland...
But I'm happy to start with Tahoma and removing the colonizer name first, then figuring out a mutually agreed one later.
For some reason, I believed her when she said the trail at MOUNT Tabor would be flat. It was not 😝
Huntington was founded in the early English colonial period. The population boomed in the late 1960s, as people moved out from NYC.
Geology shapes a lot of geography. ;)
https://bsky.app/profile/spavel.bsky.social/post/3kkd6evhtmd2i
Montgomery County has a permanent Renaissance festival village, open 9 weekends each autumn.
Gaithersburg, MD, has a neighborhood with Star Trek street names: Tribble, Reliant, Intrepid, etc.
Not a Man, or the Man.
Just a Geoguessr geography loving nerd. :)
And in some places the clay soil is so red, that when cut, it looks like the flesh of the earth is cut, running red in the rain.
(This article has a ton of great pics for brick lovers: https://www.stltoday.com/life-entertainment/local/home-gardening/beautiful-crazy-brick-designs-in-st-louis-are-worth-a-closer-look/article_246ebebd-e808-5a4a-a6ab-94c1cfe3549f.html)
https://bsky.app/profile/cpgorski.bsky.social/post/3l3qfhkh25c2m
I used to live in Raleigh and Durham. :)
The biome of my state is called Cerrado and it has the funny quirk that during dry season, the vegetation sets itself on fire
But funnily enough, those fires are very low flames and you can actually see native tree burning just the outer bark layer during them