Interesting Maps

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Texas is so big that even Texas is three Texas’ wide.

Texii

Question Time

Here's a related one, focussing on Doggerland, now the relatively shallow Dogger Bank in the North Sea. The middle image shows the western edge of the Ancylus Lake. It also shows the relatively little lake south of Doggerland that the Thames, Rhine, and other major rivers flowed into. (Or so, I understood anyway; in this particular image, it seems its outlet was a tributary of the Rhine.) Its route to the sea was via the British channel, and major flooding events (I guess related to the melting glaciers) basically ripped that channel into its current size and shape around 10000 years ago (give or take a millennium).

Charles Babbage wrote: »

IS British Wales not really a pseudonym for English Wales, and of the English are not Britons like the Welsh, but German blowins?

No, it’s not that simple. It’s not the case that the English are descendants of Germanic tribes like the Angles and the Saxons, and nothing (or little) else. The numbers that came from German tribes were probably quite small, but they were militarily and culturally dominant, and so over time consumed the local populations of “Britons” into an Anglo-Saxon culture. Sure, there’s a Germanic mix in there, but It is a mix. The Anglo-Saxon, Roman and Norman invasions were cultural and political rather than demographic.

In fact, the south of England population shares more genetic similarity with the French population (40%) than it does with the German (30%) - and this is not a result of the Norman conquest in the 11th century, but rather the result of migrations at the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago.

It should also be noted that the “Britons” themselves were not a genetically homogeneous group, and there’s significant genetic differences between the Cornish and Welsh, for instance. This reinforces the fact that the Celts were not a single genetic or ethnic group, but an umbrella of similar cultures.

pj9999 wrote: »

Ireland imagined without the inland counties (OC)

I wouldn't have thought Meath to Leitrim would be one of the two top priority ferry routes in such a scenario.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Wales can be divided into three regions. British Wales , Welsh Wales and Y Fro Gymraeg. They don't quite match the voting results. But it's near enough.

Plaid have 4 seats out of 40. And they are all in Y Fro Gymraeg, the west coast 'Gealtacht'

Votes in 2019 GE

[/QUOTE]Was wondering how long it would take for that one to be reposted from Politics

josip wrote: »

If Limerick gets in solely on the basis of a tidal border, then Kilkenny, Armagh and Carlow want in also

You beat me to it.

josip wrote: »

If Limerick gets in solely on the basis of a tidal border, then Kilkenny, Armagh and Carlow want in also

Don't forget Tyrone an just possibly Tipperary.

hmm, if we pulled the plug on Lake Hibernia we could flood Cork.

Before the the last Ice age 30,000 years ago


Brrrrrr!!....Ice age.


Warming up:)...red lines are ice



Here comes trouble!

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Urbano Monte’s Massive Map of the Earth (1587)




A rotatable & zoomable globe of Monte’s map

https://kottke.org/19/07/urbano-montes-massive-map-of-the-earth-1587

Pretty cool and accurate for the 1500's with the exception of Japan, which looks like a 'ah fcuk it, we're nearly finished, just scribble some lines and call it giapone'

Seth Brundle wrote: »

The UK lake district which apparently only has one lake (the other water bodies are meres, waters or tarns)!

That reminds me of the old question that was popular in the 80's to trick people.....

Ask them to guess how many roads were in Dublin City Centre and watch them try to come up with some reasoned answer and then tell them there's only 1!!!

(Memorial Road in front of the Customs House, everywhere else is street, lane, square, etc.)

xeresod wrote: »

That reminds me of the old question that was popular in the 80's to trick people.....

Ask them to guess how many roads were in Dublin City Centre and watch them try to come up with some reasoned answer and then tell them there's only 1!!!

(Memorial Road in front of the Customs House, everywhere else is street, lane, square, etc.)

It depends on how you define "city centre". There are Ross Road, Bride Road and John Field Road by Christ Church.

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10Jg - if nothing shows, click "Run". Highlighted roads are clickable.May not work on certain devices.

xeresod wrote: »

That reminds me of the old question that was popular in the 80's to trick people.....

Ask them to guess how many roads were in Dublin City Centre and watch them try to come up with some reasoned answer and then tell them there's only 1!!!

(Memorial Road in front of the Customs House, everywhere else is street, lane, square, etc.)

Likewise there are no roads in the City of London (the square mile, that is)
and there are 7 gates into the city , for trivia lovers.