Most claims about remote places come with an asterisk. The remotest inhabited island still has a harbour and a supply ship. The remotest town has a road, or at least…
The number of continents is one of the first facts most people are taught about the world, and one of the least questioned. Seven: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North…
Picture the two places side by side. On one side of the Atlantic, the Sahara: the largest hot desert on the planet, stretching across the northern third of Africa, defined…
In the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1997, a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was doing routine work: monitoring an array of underwater microphones, or hydrophones, positioned to…
Nobody plans to waste money on a trip, but the way currency and fees work abroad makes it remarkably easy to lose a meaningful amount without noticing. Almost all of…
There is nothing quite like looking into a crater and understanding, in a physical way, that the ground you live on is a thin crust over something enormous. These fourteen…