Geography, Places & History
Places, landscapes, heritage, geography, and the histories connected to them.
3 Articles
Why the International Date Line Zigzags Across the Pacific
Beyond the 180th meridian: civil-time choices, island communities, airline itineraries, and the databases that keep local dates working
The Silk Roads Were Never One Road: How Overlapping Land and Sea Networks Connected Worlds
Beyond the familiar line from China to Rome, a history of relay trade, oasis cities, maritime ports, translators, technologies, and changing routes
Finding the Center of the World: Uluru, Rapa Nui, Cusco, and Delphi as “Earth’s Navels”
Four cultural centers formed by living law, ancestral memory, imperial roads, and oracular authority—not one point on a map