geography | Brinens and Things

thelandofmaps:

X-post from r/pics someone told me to post here. If you dig a hole straight down the red is where you’ll end up.
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#the more you know #you know when I described Perth as being the opposite side of the world #I didn’t think it was very exact #but actually #if you dig straight down from my house #(hypothetically speaking) #then head for the nearest land as the albatross flies #it’s very nearly Perth #(I suppose technically it would be somewhere around Yallingup) #(Wikipedia informs me a lot more people than I would’ve expected care about Yallingup’s existence) #(it’s got some very nice beaches and caves) #the things you learn messing around with maps #yesterday I learned about Svalbard after hitting it on GeoGuessr #go look up Svalbard #it’s interesting #(I’m surprised just how little land has land as its opposite) #(where did Americans get the idea that theirs was China anyway?) #tag rambles

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eponymous-rose:

Okay, this is a really entertaining game – it drops you at a random location in Google Street View and has you guess where you are based on your surroundings.

The ones I get right are either the ones with shop names in, so I can see the language, or the ones with distinctive geological features. (Where by “feature” I mean “type of bedrock as indicated by hill shape and/or visible outcrop”. ^_^ Quick, everybody act surprised.)

Ooh. All the sleuthy fun of Mapcrunch, but much shorter rounds and official score-keeping (though I’m not sure quite how they convert crow-flight distance to points).

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#game #a word of warning #if they drive on the left #and all the signs are in English #including the sign that says Port of East London #so you think Oh hey England! #don’t #it’s not England #it’s South Africa #you’re 9800km off #(why do British colonists have such a hard time coming up with original names for their towns)