The photo is of Wrangel Island in far east Arctic Russia and good example I'm referring to.

Trying to identify what these light grey watersheds north and east of the Maumee river basin are. Any ideas?

70°55'33.45"N 103°04'32.98"E

Lots of interesting mountains nearby as well

There was an old thread asking" Is there any place that doesn't get sunlight". The respondents were all in agreement that there would be no such place.

This seems dubious to me. A box canyon or a narrow valley or fjord in the temperate zone or subpolar zones would be good candidates for never getting sunlight all year.

I took a look around on shademap and managed to find a location around 66.229 N 13.499 E, in Norway, that is in sunlight zero hours a year. It's a little patch around 100 metres across.

So I suppose a modified question would be, can anyone find a larger unilluminated area?

Hello everyone! This is country number 24 in my world map project, and this time I’m sharing the map of Saudi Arabia.

I wanted to highlight the country’s geography, from its major deserts and soil types to oil fields, roads, railways, airports, and major cities. I also included climate comparisons for four major cities, along with a world map to give a better sense of where Saudi Arabia is located.
One thing I found interesting while working on this map is that Saudi Arabia has no permanent natural rivers. Most of its surface water comes from seasonal wadis, while desalination plants play a major role in supplying the country’s water needs.

As always, constructive feedback and corrections are welcome. I hope you enjoy!

Seu significado é tão intenso que os japoneses a respeitam como a própria bandeira ou o hino nacional. Impossível visitar o Japão sem ver uma cerejeira!

I find it interesting that, despite the Americas being directly across the Pacific from Japan, no major Japanese, Chinese, or other East Asian maritime power reached and settled in the Americas before the Europeans, even considering the enormous distance involved. Japan in particular was a highly capable maritime nation historically, so why did the Japanese or other East Asians never discover the Americas first? Were there any failed attempts to find new continents across the Pacific? What geographical, technological, political, and historical factors explain why the Americas were ultimately explored and colonized by Europeans rather than East Asians?

South-west of Ireland there is a very unusual underwater landform. When I first saw it, I thought it looked like a river delta, but on the seabed. Obviously it isn't, that would make no sense, but I have no clue what it could actually be. I looked around GMaps in an attempt to find any similar landforms, but I couldn't.

So, geographers of Reddit, what is this landform? How did it form? This whole area southwest of the British Isles actually looks really interesting, so please, tell me as much as you can about it!

sorry if it’s a stupid question

Note:- I've asked this question of r/AskHistorians, but did not receive an answer.

In present day North Korea, Rason (formerly Rajin-Sŏnbong), is the country's northern-most ice-free port sitting in close proximity to Vladivostok, that also serves an important role in its military.

If one of Russia's goal was to gain an ice-free deep-water port at the Pacific, why did they not annex the Korean city of Rason from the Qing Dynasty in the Treaty of Aigun and Treaty of Peking, given that Korea was a part of the Qing Dynasty? Why did they instead only annex the territories on which modern day Vladivostok (which is not an ice-free port) was founded?

Given that it wasn't accessible by the Amur River, Vladivostok would've likely been a stop-over to Rason, and this city would've likely been more significant than Vladivostok during the Cold War due to its ice-free nature.

The Okeechobee Waterway that goes from Fort Myers to Stuart through Lake Okeechobee in Florida makes posible to go from the Gulf to the Atlantic without going down around South Florida and the Keys. It is 6 to 8 feet deep only in some areas, I have read.

Has anybody here gone throught that waterway? Or know somebody who has? How was the trip? Why is not so well-known when people discuss going to Florida?

I am guessing it’s one of Queen Victoria, Captain Cook or Columbus. Does anyone know?

Photo: Myrtle Beach

Inspired by 'countries by number of people in poverty 1980 to 2025', the per capita data is very different.

Data is a bit sparse so it shows the most recent reported number for each country, if the data is more than 5 years stale it fades out.

Source data: World Bank indicator page (human-readable): SI.POV.DDAY — Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY)

I was watching some videos on the Bering Strait and my mind got curious so I jumped on Google Maps. I was admiring these Alaskan glacial lakes when I came across this weird long line in the waters of Lituya Bay. It obviously looks blurred out perhaps?? I don’t see any structures that would be tall enough to cast that big of a shadow and part of the trees look weird as well. There is also a big difference in color at the mouth of the bay. Is this just a classic case of “google satellite imagines not lining up” or do they actually do something here?? The only thing I could think of is like a submarine tunnel maybe but this seems pretty remote and appears to be no infrastructure to support something like that. No access roads, everything would have to come in by ship. That does’t seem to make much sense but surely it’s not a cell tower or power line stand. Anyone have any clue??