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…
The useful question in any wetland is not what grows there but what fills it. Rain-fed and groundwater-fed wetlands sitting side by side can support entirely different vegetation. Here are…
Tides are usually explained by the moon, and that explanation is correct and incomplete.
The moon's pull produces a tidal range in the open ocean of roughly a metre. That…
Every lake island is either something that was already there, something that grew, or something somebody built. Which one it is determines everything about the place. Here are fifteen.
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Look at a river from the air and it does something that ought to require an explanation. Water flows downhill, downhill is a direction, and the shortest route down…