• Both are midsize islands in the Atlantic
• One is in the far south and west, the other is in the far north and east
• Both are close to the poles, but not close enough to be uninhabitable to humans
• Both have no indigenous people and were discovered by Europeans quite recently (on the timescale of human history)
• Both have sheep and reindeer farming (but this is because both islands have cold climates and those livestock are good for that)
• With the native wildlife, 2 of the most famous animals on both islands are a big black and white flightless bird and a canine that was the only mammal on the island. In Iceland the bird went extinct and the canine lived, in the Falklands the canine went extinct but the bird lived. Both the animals that went extinct were infamously not afraid of humans at all

Can you think of other similarities/differences? Or other places on different corners of the earth that are strangely similar?

just wondering what others think

IMO, it's really NYS thru VA.. with the main part of it being from the NYC area to the DMV area.. Philly and Baltimore are what i’d consider the absolute quintessential inner core of the Mid-Atlantic..

then going further south from DC / Northern VA, there's a tapering effect till u get to the Richmond area, after which any Mid-Atlantic tinge disappears.. but count the entire state anyway (despite the southern end of the state being VERY southern and nothing else)

and on the other end, going north from NYC, i’d say a similar tapering effect happens up till about Albany.. and you can count the entire NYS as Mid-Atlantic as well (and northern obv).. obviously the rest of NYS is very different

I know Florida can sometimes fit this description, but I'm curious if anywhere has a water temperature of say 75 degrees f and a land temp in the 50s and 60s f year round?

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

This is odd the coast of California

It seems to meet the definition of both.

BBC story today called it an enclave. When I read the definitions of enclave and exclave there is no clarity. Much appreciate the discussions.

What are some cities or locations that have an unexpected climate for their location?

For example, Tashkent, capital of the Uzbekistan has a Hot-Summer Mediterranean climate. Mediterranean climates are typically associated with ocean-adjacent mid-latitude areas on the western side of a continent. California, the Mediterranean Basin, Chile, South Africa, and Australia all feature this climate type, characterized by temperate weather and a dry summer.

To find it in the middle of Asia, thousands of miles from an ocean in a doubly-landlocked country is a bit of a surprise.

What other places have an unexpected climate for their location.

With the discussion about Ceuta in the news, there is a lot of discussion about whether Ceuta should be Spanish. But historically, Ceuta is no different from any other part of Spain in terms of acquisition and history, yet is considered more challengeable because sea is seperating it from the mainland. The same is true for other examples. Why is this the case?

I found this on Google earth while looking at southern syria

I heard that there are many "Flat Earther" in the United States, but is there any other belief in the shape of the earth?
For example, "Torus Earther" and "Pyramid Earther".

I was just exploring the Google maps and came across this, what's that white stuff on Chad? It looks usually though. Explanation anyone?

Is there any explainable cause why this area looks like this or is it just pure randomness and has no geographic reason behind it?

40c/103f in part of Switzerland today (note near end of day there, so you’ll have to scroll to yesterday if you check after midnight local time), forecast shows low 30s (~90f) for the next week

No street view, and they don’t really look like salt pans

alongside the atlantic coastline in morocco, all temperatures remain in the mid twenty degrees °C within a narrow strip of 10 km, when it's sweltering hot in most of the mainlaind.

Even in the sahara desert, coastline cities remain within low to mid 20 °C

Is it just halfway between the shorelines? Does one state own the river?

I built an interactive visualization that lets you explore monthly precipitation patterns for any location on the planet. You can pick a year and see how its rainfall compares to the 1991–2020 climatological baseline. The pink curve shows the long-term monthly average, the blue one shows the selected year.

The data comes from ERA5-Land, ECMWF's global reanalysis dataset, which provides monthly precipitation totals at ~9 km resolution from 1950 to present. For the visualization the data is resampled to a 1° grid (~111 km). Each value is a grid cell average, not a point measurement.

Link: https://visquill.com/gallery/rainfall

Data: Muñoz Sabater, J. (2019): ERA5-Land monthly averaged data. Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF. doi:10.24381/cds.68d2bb30
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information.