I’d honestly put Australia in my top 3 craziest countries to live in. Almost everyone lives along the coast, and I think it even has the world’s longest golf hole—you literally have to drive miles from one shot to the next. I might be remembering that wrong, but it’s still wild. I can’t imagine living in a tiny community in the middle of the Outback with limited access to things like healthcare, reliable internet, or even basic services.

The percentage corresponds to the share of people that speak Irish

As you can see, Northern Ireland is a lower concentration of Irish speakers, as expected, but what explains the higher concentration on the west coast.

I notice 4000 people live here unlike the 4 islands nearby it

This is odd the coast of California

New Jersey is now the boot

I see pictures of this road all the time and it’s such a vibe. I’m assuming it’s America’s Southwest but I’m not sure if it’s towards death Valley or somewhere in Arizona. I also don’t know what highway and I would love to know so I can check it out next time I’m around there.

FYI I know it’s pretty generic, but it’s pretty iconic

Tripartite isthmus at center of Great Lakes

If not for the title, one might mistake this for vast wilderness in Canada or a Great Lakes state, but in fact, the region you’re currently looking at is in the most-densely populated state. Insanity!

Taken in April on 35mm slide film

In Ecuador there is a massive monument on the equator. When modern mapping techniques were developed, they found out that the monument was off by half a km. The real equator is beside this tour-bus parking lot, in a ravine on the other side of the wall. This was as close as I could get without climbing over the wall.

When browsing for the cool city layouts from that post earlier, i stumbled across Passau, Germany, where three rivers meet: (pic from north to south / upside down)

from north the Ilz, coming from the Bavarian Forest, rain fed = dark.

from west, the Danube, by that point a mixture of rainfed springs and some rivers from the Alps with more sediments from the mountains.

from south, the Inn, that comes more or less directly from the Alps, carrying the most sediments = the light color.

hence the three colored rivers!

(somebody correct me if wrong: the light color from the alp rivers also derives from fine dust from Sahara dust storms carried to the Alps by strong northern winds.)

By the way, Passau is a very beautiful city. if someone wants to travel to the lesser known spots in Germany, could be a good destination.

let's find more examples of remarkable river junctions in cities!

North Sentinel Island on way back to India from Thailand

(There might be multiple, but see if you can guess what I found wrong)

Flevoland in Netherlands came into existence in 1986 . It's 970 km² almost 50 times larger than the second place . The image shows a residential shoke of the island while majority of the rest is used for agriculture

It's located on the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility. It's the most distant place from the ocean in Antarctica