Want to see atmospheric yet often really mundane border photos? My online 🇨🇭🇫🇷 walking journal is moving here, as I’m enjoying this new online atmosphere. (I’m freezing new posts on Twatter & just ‘name-holding’ my account.)
Link to last post on one of the longer earlier threads: https://twitter.com/julietjfall/status/1571476764269871104?s=46&t=9RfIT2qARWZk8ZBEIES9Vw
Australia is bigger than some people overseas imagine.
So here's a quick comparison of Australian states to their US counterparts.
Tasmania is Australia's smallest state, with a total area of 68,401 square kilometres.
That's bigger than West Virginia, Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, or Rhode Island.
Australia's second smallest state is Victoria, at 227, 444km2.
It's larger than Minnesota, Utah, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine, Florida, or Pennsylvania.
Fun fact: Victoria is larger in area than Indiana and South Carolina combined.
Now on to the ones that might surprise you.
You know how Texans love talking up how big Texas is?
New South Wales is bigger than Texas.
And by quite a margin. NSW is 801, 150 sq km compared to 696,241 sq km for Texas.
South Australia is bigger than Texas, and Michigan. Combined.
SA is 984, 321 sq km.
Texas (696,241 km2) plus Michigan (250,493 sq km) is just 946, 734 sq km.
Queensland is bigger than Alaska.
Queensland is 1,729,742 sq km, compared to 1,717,854 sq km for Alaska.
That also means Queensland is bigger than Texas and California. Combined.
Texas (696,241 km2) plus California (423,968 km2) is 1,120,209 sq km.
You can add in Michigan too (250,493 sq km) and it's still only 1,370,702 sq km.
That's right kids. Texas, California, and Michigan combined are 359,040 sq km smaller than Queensland.
That leaves Western Australia. It's 2,527,013 square kilometres.
How big is that? Well, the combined area of Texas and Alaska is 2,414,095 sq km, so pretty bloody big.
After a few months of testing the waters here I will do a thumbnail intro.
I'm a former stage technician who went and got a masters in #geography with a focus on the #Arctic regarding martime use, search and rescue, policy, and regional relations like the #Arcticcouncil. Since then I'm a geography #adjunct at my local community college and would love to do something else.
I also happen to love getting outdoors and exploring the world on foot and by #bicycle
So, I flew 6 hours inland (1,200 miles, 1,931km) and I’m still in the same country. I was wondering in what other countries you can also do that, but my Internet search for “countries by biggest length” so far yielded more results about penises that I was ready to bargain for.
Really early on in my first job out of high school, I worked on the database of federal land in Canada.
An early task was adding the (then new) territory of Nunvaut to our code tables, and moving all the properties into that new territory.
It looks like whoever is maintaining that database now will have another large update to do soon, as the federal government transfers the land into Nunavut's control.
Question for the #GIS#satellite#RemoteSensing#Geography crowd: If I wanted to find a burn area on a roughly 0.25 - 0.5 mi stretch of land over CONUS, what product (if any) would be appropriate? LandSat-9 burned area product? Or something else?
"[S]pace and time coordinates gave rise to the concept of [life paths]...geometric representations of...movement...conditioned by predictable regularities and organizing principles. [This gives rise] to a vital dance shaped and bounded by physiological needs, personal decisions, cultural context, and environmental conditions."
A curated list of Mastodon accounts to follow if you're interested in #cartography, #maps, #geoviz'ualisation, visual aspects of #GIS and #geography etc. – 172 active accounts as of today!
Maybe a good way to get your feed going if you are #newhere…
I wonder what land mass (counting all contiguous land up to the ocean" has the highest ratio of peak height to surface area. I would venture a guess maybe one of the hawaiian islands.
You like #geography, right? You will love this story of the #EROS program. I was floored at how early they were allowing internet download of data, for instance. This is awesome.
Watch "#USGS EROS: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence" on YouTube
This is Bøsdalafossur waterfall, the outlet from Sørvágsvatn lake in the Faroe Islands.
The lake sits 40m above sea level, surrounded by cliffs that hem it in, and looks for all the world like it's warped spacetime to inhabit this position.
UN's International Court of Justice (#ICJ) ruled this week that #Nicaragua can't claim economic rights to the seabed (#continentalshelf) in zone where rights to ocean resources normally would default to #Colombia.
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.
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
Underwater mountain twice height of Burj Khalifa discovered off coast of Guatemala (www.independent.co.uk)
An underwater mountain taller than the world’s highest building has been discovered by scientists in Central America....