Interesting Maps

magicbastarder

That article you posted seems to have suffered from betteridge's law of headlines.

I wouldn't say it's pedantic at all to point out a simple fact which disproves the question in the article title!

josip

Coleman's Island aka Drumully, "It's complicated…".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummully

Sigma101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122629621#Comment_122629621

The record for the longest unbroken walk actually completed (i.e. no other means of transport) was set by the late George Meegan in 1983. While others have since walked further, Meegan's record for an unbroken walk appears to stand today.

magicbastarder

it's an average of about 12km a day, so i assume was done in spurts?

I see sheep

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633436#Comment_122633436

If he managed to get married and have kids I'd say so aye.

minggatu

River Basins As Countries

Map created by Vivid Maps

The map above is an interesting way to re-imagine the world, using river basins as the borders for countries. From the author:

https://brilliantmaps.com/river-basins-as-countries/#more-9079

minggatu

Great Lakes & St Lawrence River Superimposed On Europe

Map created by Vivid MapsThe map above shows just how big the North America’s

Great Lakes

are and how far the St. Lawrence River flows.

The lakes cover 244,106 km2 (94,250 square miles).

That’s the roughly the same as the land area of:

[Read more…]https://brilliantmaps.com/great-lakes-europe/#more-9097

dasdog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633436#Comment_122633436

I got chatting to someone from Latvia in a small town outside Valencia a couple of years ago. He had walked from the Netherlands down through Belgium, France, the East/South Coast of Spain to the border with Portugal and was making his way back up along the coast and was heading to Switzerland.

Carrying just a backpack and without a care in the world apart from getting blistered feet and harassed by police occasionally for sleeping in train stations, parks on beaches etc. I think he was 5 or 6 months in to it. I was kind of jealous.

cdeb

Paul Salopek has been on a walk now for the past 11 years. This was his planned route, though he also planned to complete it in seven years, but right now he's only after leaving China.

Another notable walker was Patrick Leigh-Fermor, who walked from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul at the age of 18 in 1933. This was his rough route; his three books on it (A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water; The Broken Road) are brilliant; you can get a feel for how much diversity Europe has lost in what's little more than a lifetime.

Paranoid Mandroid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122634456#Comment_122634456

Forest Gumpanov? Famous table tennis player amongst other talents 🙂

dasdog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122634864#Comment_122634864

Closer resemblence to Tom Hanks in Cast Away - or Jesus

MY BAD

Water Quality map of Ireland

Blue: High

Green: Good

Yellow: Moderate

Brown: Poor

Red: Bad

https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/agriculture

josip

What in hell are they up to down in Kilkenny?

davetherave

The big red cross is just the cursor or the pin drop point. There is one poor graded down there that feeds into the Nore, but that map makes it look much worse.

RiderOnTheStorm

BiodiversityIreland.com - great map site, tells you where stuff was spotted ….

This is the map for location of Castor-oil plant (the one that makes ricin)

https://i.postimg.cc/ncHtkjfY/Castor-oil-plant-Ricinus-communis-Biodiversity-Ireland-2024-09-20.png

RiderOnTheStorm

….. yeah, dont know what happened there … .it was supposed to be an image …. anyway, cut n paste the link or take my word for it that there is only 1 sighting in Ireland and thats in Wexford :-)

minggatu

Yearly number of stem graduates by country

Nuno

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122637232#Comment_122637232

Here's the top 12 countries by Population (as of 2023).
France, Germany and Iran not on the list here, so seem to be outperforming on the STEM front despite their relative population sizes.

minggatu

The Oldest University In Every Country In The World

Seth Brundle

Is there any country that does not have a university? (I don't see it mentioned on the linked page)

minggatu

Mediterranean Sea 6 Million Years Ago

Post created by ConstructionFrosty77

The map above shows what the Mediterranean Sea might have looked like 6 million years ago. The creator of the map explains that:

[Read more…]https://brilliantmaps.com/mediterranean-sea-6-million-years-ago/#more-9172

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122637627#Comment_122637627

Seems to only be edge cases - did a check of all the obviously tiny places and some very poor places. Most of the tiny Pacific island nations have a college of the University of the South Pacific.

Comoros University is listed as Permanently Closed on Google - but anyone can edit that - and their website isn't working so maybe them.

The Vatican doesn't have anything that calls itself a University within the boundaries of the state itself. The buildings are actually in Italy.

Some of the UK dependencies have satellite campuses of British universities but nothing dedicated to them.

minggatu

Map of Current Railway & Train Lines In Africa & The Middle East

Map from OpenrailwaymapThis map shows the railway lines in the Middle East and Africa.

more https://brilliantmaps.com/africa-middle-east-trains/

Charles Babbage

Orient express

minggatu

Map Of The 10 Oldest Companies In The UK

https://brilliantmaps.com/oldest-companies-uk/#more-9136

L1011

^^ Any map that doesn't fall for the Bushnille 1608 bullshit for NI might actually be accurate. It's a fake date which refers to an entirely different company

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Map of Latin Europe

blackwhite

Feel sorry for the Brits

magicbastarder

I feel sorry for the lobsters.

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silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122641925#Comment_122641925

To give an idea of some of the population differences; California has a population of 39 million while Wyoming has a population of 581 thousand.

Charles Babbage

The rain in Spain falls mainly in Galicia, which is of course nearer Cork than South East Spain

JupiterKid

The Dutch former island of Urk (apparently a very strange place) in 1930 - and 90 years later, in 2020 as a large town on the edge of a polder of the Zuider Zee land reclamation project.

JupiterKid

Extent of the Viking raids on France in the 9th and early 10th centuries.

The Normans, as we all know, were directly descended from Vikings who settled and intermarried with the native French in present day Normandy.

JupiterKid

Voyager 2 photomosaic image of Neptunian moon Triton, 1989

Seth Brundle

The Cerdá Plan for Barcelona by civil engineer Ildefons Cerdà which allowed for the expansion of the overcrowded city beyond it's then restrictive city walls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cerd%C3%A1_Plan

minggatu

@Locati0ns Europe split in two.Where Europeans would move if they had to leave their country

minggatu

The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole84 Global Fertility Rates have dropped from 5.3 in 1963 to 2.3 in 2021.3.0 decline in ~58 years.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122646265#Comment_122646265

Is that saying that Italians would go Poland?