THE GEOGRAPHY I was born in Beckenham, then in the county of Kent, within 0.2 minutes of longitude of the Greenwich meridian: that line that sets the time of day for the whole world. Longitude tends to pass under the radar. People talk about latitude because it relates to climate; north cold, south hot (or … Read more
https://www.africanjourney.ca/ Fresh out of university in 1968, Tony Gaston set out to explore for birds in the Ahaggar Mountains of the central Sahara. Without a map or compass, he continued south to Niger and westwards to Liberia and Sierra Leone, traveling on trucks and buses and on foot through countries just emerging from colonialism. He … Read more
A Natural History of Digges Sound Digges Sound, lapping at the northern tip of the Ungava Peninsula, lies at the junction of Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay. It is celebrated for its huge colonies of Thick-billed Murres’ which have attracted the attention of visitors to the area from the time of Henry Hudson. Their breeding … Read more