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- Kamchatka, Vale Do Javari, Greenland, and Gangkhar Puensum are among the least explored places on Earth. The Amazon Rainforest, Sahara Desert, Mariana Trench, and Namib Desert are also unexplored and hold mysteries.
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Have we mapped the whole planet? As Rachel Nuwer discovers, there are mysterious, poorly charted places everywhere, but not for the reasons you might think.
Jun 13, 2007 · YOUR name won’t go down in history alongside Columbus or Vasco da Gama, but there is still undiscovered land to be found – if you know where to look. Ever since modern humans evolved in east...
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Scotland is perhaps the country with the most detailed wilderness mapping in the world today. It has been mapped at global, continental, national, regional and local scales, each one showing progressively more detail, and higher levels of accuracy and reliability. The Scottish government has been able to use these maps to define what should count a...
China is following suit with a similar approach and using national level mappingto define wilderness areas and help develop a new national park system. The country can be neatly divided in two as highlighted by what’s known as the “Hu Line”, a simple straight line that connects Ai-hui in the north-east to Teng-Chong in the south-west. East of this ...
One thing that wilderness maps are particularly good at illustrating is how wild land is being lost to the demand for food, fuel, water, timber and minerals as the human population increases. Maps show that this mainly happens through the road construction associated with logging, oil and gas and mineral extraction. Images of the ongoing fragmentat...
Despite the problems of global wilderness maps, there have been some attempts to overcome the impact of cross-border assumptions and inconsistencies. The variations in wilderness quality have been consistently mapped across Europe as part of an EU project to develop a registerof the EU’s remaining wilderness areas. One thing that this map highlight...
Dec 16, 2019 · There are a handful of places around the world that are largely untouched or uninhabited. Although researchers have explored some parts of Antarctica , only aerial photos reveal what the rest of...
Apr 13, 2021 · A new interactive map can predict where as-yet-undiscovered species might be found. Scientists analyzed 32,000 existing species to predict where we might find the next ones. Finding new species is the key to protecting them. Around 40% of the world’s economy is thought to be contingent on biodiversity.
Jan 8, 2015 · The last land on Earth to be ‘discovered’ Staking a claim for undiscovered land has obviously become a challenge in an era when satellite imagery covers every inch of the globe.
