The defining property is that nothing here is constant. Salinity at any given point changes twice a day and again with the seasons, and every organism and process in an…
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There is a standard way of looking at old maps that produces a confident and entirely wrong conclusion.
The method is to compare the map against a modern one…
The useful question about any remote place is not how far it is but what specifically makes it hard to reach, because distance, terrain, water and season each produce completely…
The useful habit is to read a map as an argument rather than as a photograph. Somebody decided all of this, and knowing what they decided tells you what the…
Everything below follows from the same arrangement: water on three sides or more, and one narrow way in by land. Here are seventeen things that produces.
1. The Spit That…
Altitude is not simply cold. It changes the pressure, the radiation, the growing season, the cooking and the access, and a town built high has adjusted to every one of…