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.

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

This is odd the coast of California

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.

New Jersey is now the boot

Source: View Point of Mount Adams & Mount Rainer (U.S. National Park Service)

It's so ominous and alien

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

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

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

Now, we have countries fighting over a small portion of desert, mountain peaks, tiny islands with each other.

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

Directly under the 9th hole at the Pinnacle Point Golf Club in Mossel Bay, South Africa is Cave 13B, one of the more interesting archeological sites in the world.

Discovered in 1997 during an archeological impact assessment before the construction of the golf course, the caves at Pinnacle Point have pushed the timeline of behavioral modernity emerging with humans back by more than 100,000 years.

Before Pinnacle Point it was thought that humans first developed modern cognitive and cultural traits in Europe about 40,000 years ago. The discovery of a site where humans were practicing advanced cultural behaviors 170,000 years ago in Africa disproved that theory.

The occupants of the various caves relied heavily on the sea for sustenance, harvesting a lot of shellfish. They used fire to heat-treat rocks when making tools. They ground ochre to make pigment for decoration.

The find is still relatively new, and investigations and analysis are likely to be ongoing for a very long time.

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.