Geography

Circumhorizontal arcs, often known as “fire rainbows,” are an optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight or moonlight in plate-shaped ice crystals floating in…

A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also known as a parhelion (plural parhelia) in meteorology, is a natural optical phenomenon that appears on…

Because of the inherent difficulty of seeing beneath the Earth’s surface, geoscientists have struggled to understand the deep structure of volcanoes. To gain a more…

Bárðarbunga (Icelandic pronunciation: ˈpaurðarˌpuŋka) is a big central volcano in Iceland that lies beneath the 500-meter-thick Vatnajokull glacier. Bárðarbunga, Iceland’s second tallest peak at 2,009 meters…

The stunning natural beauty and safe, friendly villages of Cape Breton Island (French: Île du Cap-Breton, formerly Île-Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap…

Newfoundland and Labrador (/ˈnjuːfənlænd  … ˈlæbrədɔːr/), abbreviated as NFLD, is a Canadian province made up of the island of Newfoundland and a larger mainland component to…

Baffin Island (previously Baffin Land) is Canada’s biggest and fifth-largest island in the world, located between Greenland and the Canadian mainland. It is the largest island…

Devon Island (Inuktitut: ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᑦ, Tallurutit) is the largest of the Parry Islands in the Arctic Ocean, south of Ellesmere Island and west of Baffin Bay,…

Houtouwan (Chinese: 后头湾; pinyin: Hòutóuwān) is a Chinese island located north of Shengshan Island (Chinese: 嵊山岛; pinyin: Shèngshān dǎo), one of the 400 Shengsi Islands. The…

Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for “Coleman’s head,” German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in southern Africa’s Namib Desert, in the center of a region known as “the…

Kiritimati Island, often known as Christmas Island, is a coral atoll in the northern Line Islands in the Pacific Ocean. With a circumference of roughly…

Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan, Japanese: ɸɯꜜ(d)ʑisaɴ), Japanese Fuji-san, also called Fujiyama or Fuji no Yama, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain…