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Geography

by Jerry Coffey on September 6, 2008

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Geography

A new NASA image of Earth, by Robert Simmon and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on MODIS data.

Geography is not just the boring facts that you are spoon fed in middle school. It is more than tall mountains, continents, and rock formation. It is magnetic poles, hot spots, volcanoes, fault lines, and deep trenches underneath Earth’s seas. It is massive islands, long rivers, and deep canyons. It has caused wars and hatred since the beginning of recorded history. There is so much to research that no one person can ever think to conquer the entire field.

Universe Today has hundreds of articles on various aspects of geography. Many could be hard to root our without knowing exactly what you are looking for, so we have assembled a page full of links to that information. It can be intimidating to look at a page of links. To help with that, here are a few of the facts that you will find in the articles listed below.

The wettest place on Earth receives 12 meters of rainfall each year. Talk about having a mold problem.

The geographic North Pole is not the same as the magnetic North Pole. The same is true about the South Pole.

If you live in North America, you are taught that there are seven continents. That is not true anywhere else in the world.

The Earth’s geography was not only shaped by plate tectonics but by other solar system objects as well.

Nearly every place on our planet is 48 hours foot travel from a city. Do you know what the most isolated place on Earth is?

The world’s longest river is not its widest.

These and many other geography facts are easily accessible in the links below. We hope that you are able to improve your grades or sate your interest by reading many of the articles below.

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