Everyone knows that the Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on the Earth, but just how big is it? The precise answer is that the Pacific Ocean’s surface area is 165,250,000 square kilometers (or for readers in Burma, Liberia, and the US, 63,800,000 square miles). That’s just short… Read more“Map Monday, Just how big is the Pacific Ocean?”
Category: Maps
Map Monday, Antarctica – What’s under all that ice?
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest, and emptiest place on our planet. Over 97% of its surface is covered in ice that at it’s thickest is almost three miles deep and averages one and a third miles. While there’s been a lot of news about the arctic ice sheet or… Read more“Map Monday, Antarctica – What’s under all that ice?”
Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies
As long-time readers of this blog may recall, Monarch butterflies and their migration have always fascinated me. I even worked them into my YA fantasy series Misaligned, which I featured in an earlier blog post. Despite all of their wonderful attributes Monarchs cannot survive cold winters. Their solution is to… Read more“Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies”