Children are vague on geography and tend to assume that any place they know well is well-known to everyone. They will use obscure place names and get confused when you have never heard of them.
One of the kids I grew up with used to talk about his or her summers at "Haverdal". Neither of us had any idea of where it was on the map. Now I learn that it's a nature reserve in Halland, SW Sweden.
German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer Alexander von Humboldt died #OTD in 1859.
His most significant and famous expedition was to Latin America (1799 to 1804). Accompanied by Aimé Bonpland, he explored vast regions, including the Orinoco River, the Andes, the Amazon River, and even observed the political & social conditions of the Spanish colonies. His journey also included a visit to the United States.
Today I have been dusting off some old code looking at the perennial question of "where is the centre of country x" for a value of x is the UK.
I here are two methods of identifying the centre point, one based on a geographic bounding box centroid for the UK, and a population centroid calculated by slicing the UK into 100m horizontal and vertical rectangles and working out the cumulative centre point using @WorldPopProject data in an EPSG:3034 projection
For the first time, dynamic modelling of terrain at the University of Sydney has helped us better understand how humans first travelled across the combined continent of Sahul - Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania - between 35,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Happy to be presenting my book & comic project tonight at the University of Cagliari, during an interdisciplinary seminar as part of my Visiting Professorship.
As I've been spending the past few days translating the 'comic' section of it into French from the original English, and will be presenting this in Italian, it really makes me think about how language shapes how we think and write about the world, beyond images. #geography#visualMethods#ethnography#history#comics#bandeDessinée
Interesting #Arctic reporting as always from Mia Bennett of Cryopolitics, this time on the temporary Israeli base that was built in US state of #Alaska to test defensive space missiles now being used in the #MiddleEast.
How evolving landscapes impacted First Peoples’ early migration patterns into Australia (www.sydney.edu.au)
For the first time, dynamic modelling of terrain at the University of Sydney has helped us better understand how humans first travelled across the combined continent of Sahul - Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania - between 35,000 and 70,000 years ago.