Some questions look simple and turn out to have no answer. How long is the coastline of Britain is one of them, and the discovery of why is one of…
Picture a world map. Almost everyone picturing one is imagining the same thing: a rectangle, with a large Greenland floating at the top, Canada and Russia spread enormously across the…
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Look at a map of the Amazon and something is missing, though it takes a moment to notice. The river runs roughly 4,000 miles from the Andes to the…
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The Royal Observatory at Greenwich has one of the more unusual tourist attractions in the world: a line on the ground. Visitors queue for a photograph straddling it, one…
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Ask which is the tallest mountain on Earth and you will get one answer, delivered with confidence, from essentially everyone. Everest. It is one of those facts that feels…
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…