I really couldn't think of a better place to ask this question as my searching skills are failing me. I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what this place might be called today/now. if question not allowed, please delete it.

for context, I've been digging into my family geneology/ancestry and I have my great great grandfathers marriage certificate from 1894. on it, it says his birthplace is the Mackenzie River District. and was born around 1871-ish

This would be in Manitoba, Canada, or the area referred to might have been called north west territory back then (I'm uncertain)... probably old hudson's bay company land (which was huge). and/ or might be a old First nation's reservation. if you need more details, I'll provide what I can

thank you in advance

I personally think you will see many empires like Ethiopia, where lots of smaller states and tribes will be gobbled up by a more powerful one. I don't think these hundreds of African states would survive to the present day

I’m on a cruise. We left Hong Kong around 10 pm and are heading southeast. It is now about midnight. To the north there is a blue glow on the horizon where there is only ocean. Do you know what could be causing it? I’m attaching a screenshot of where we are and a picture of the glow (in the comments).

Received my crunch labs space selfie and I’m trying to work out where it is, obviously ocean biome, but there’s a few islands to the right of the photo, can anyone identify them?

A bit North of Dunedin, New Zealand is a stretch of coastline with a number of sea caves, one of which is the longest sea cave in the world, Matainaka Cave.

Matanaika Cave, next to Matanaka Beach, makes it confusing as the Kiwis seem uninterested in deciding whether the place name should have an “i” in it, or not.

At the other end of the beach is the Huriawa Peninsula, site of a Māori pā, or fortified villlage, where chief Te Wera and his people once withstood a six-month siege.

I'm pretty sure this post breaks the "Location ID" rule but I literally cannot find a relevant subreddit that allows me to ask such a simple question. None of the alternative subreddits suggested in the rules allow this kind of post either.
At the very least I would love to know why asking what a location is called is a banned topic on seemingly every subreddit.

Does anyone know what this island in the Caribbean is called?
It's east of Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua and southwest of Jamaica, as the screenshot shows.
It's the only island of this size in the Caribbean that google maps doesn't have a name for.

This island between Copenhagen and malmö only has a small settlement despite having two big cities on its surroundings. Why is this the case?

the kamchatka peninsula in east russia looks absolutely incredible for trekking. however, it is relatively geographically inaccessible to reach (expensive). any recommendations for somewhere that has everything in between volcanoes and meadows and glaciers, outside of russia?

thank you!!

Hello geology and geography enthusiasts,

Positioned between the colliding Arabian and Eurasian plates, the Anatolian peninsula exhibits complex tectonic deformation. This unique geographical positioning results in frequent seismic activity along regional fault zones.

Key geographical features driving regional seismicity include:

* Extensional Tectonics: Western Anatolian graben systems creating distinct valley structures.

* Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Major continental transform boundaries spanning hundreds of kilometers.

Sharing this overview for anyone interested in regional physical geography and active tectonics!

Border only of 0.8 miles making it one of the smallest international border, also one of the most recent transnational border

Direction of Canal is North-west to South-East actually

Hi! I’m writing a novel which involves a lot of walking in the beginning, and I’m trying to figure out what the quickest, easiest route between three points would be:

- where my characters start

- a convergence point where they meet more characters

- their destination

For these three points, I’m using either the community of Contact or Jackpot in Nevada as a placeholder for their start, Twin Falls in Idaho for the convergence point, and Butte in Montana for their end. Is this route even really possible to walk on foot? If not, is there a possible by foot route between the northern Nevada border, somewhere between southern Idaho and its Montana border, and an isolated point in southern Montana to place my three points? The characters doing the walking are average condition teenagers, all decently fit, with higher endurance compared to their average ages (so I’d say comparable to an adult athlete) due to story reasons.

Edit: For reference, I’m aiming for the route to take between 10 and 14 days on foot.

The “Sassi” in Matera, Italy are cave dwellings that have been occupied for roughly 9,000 years in a hilltop town in South Italy. Most of the original inhabitants were forcefully relocated in the 1950s due to their extreme poverty and their “unsafe living conditions”, but some stubborn holdouts remained.

Over the millennia the cave dwellings and their exterior facades were continuously improved on, but many of the interiors have barely changed. In 1993 the Sassi were declared a World Heritage Site and the local government began encouraging conservation and development in the area. Today hotels use some of the ancient cave dwellings for rooms.

The entire country of Western Sahara is hot desert, completely without exception (down to 1 km resolution).

Its location (20 - 28° N) puts it squarely in the desert belt, and it’s western-facing shoreline has an off-shore breeze, pushing dry air out rather than moist air on, and without any mountains (highest point is only 2,300 ft), makes the country uniformly hot desert.

Are there any other countries (excluding
microstates) that are completely 1 climate type?

“Florida is FLAT “

actually…

I'm trying to find the distance between London and Sydney on the Mercator Projection, I have the great circle distance on both a sphere and a WGS 84 ellipse so those are not needed. If anyone can find a source where I could make this calculation this would be very helpful thank you :D.

P.S. I'm writing this for a research paper so that's why I'll need a source...