Every pass is a compromise between height and distance: the lowest crossing point is rarely the shortest route, and the route that everyone took is whichever combination was survivable. Here…
The feature that makes a fjord a fjord is the sill at its entrance - a shallow threshold of rock and debris left where the glacier terminated. Water inside is…
What makes these places worth visiting is not the spring itself but what a community does when free heat is available indefinitely. The answers are remarkably consistent. Here are ten.…
The logic is consistent wherever it appears. Put the settlement on ground that is hard to attack, above the bad air of the valley floor, and on rock that would…
The technical term is an erg. What makes one worth travelling to is usually the dune form - linear, crescent, star or transverse - because the shape records the wind…
What these have in common is exposure. A headland projects into whatever the ocean is doing, which is why the weather on them is rarely the weather a few miles…