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Bahama
Benghazi
Azaouagh
Baffin’s South
Asia’s East Tip
Berbera
Baku
Beaches East of Fortaleza
Balkash
Barkly Tableland
Austurland 1999
Belfast and Dublin
Awjilah
Dammam
Benguela
Barabinskaya Steppe
Bayan Zag
Aden
Marzuk
The constant wind of the central Sahara has clustered its moving sand in great oblate dunefields called Ergs. This one is in the southwestern corner of Libya, and is spilling downwind into a rift valley. This area was a populous node during pluvial times which were associated with the continental glacial advances. Several important archeological… Read more »
Balkan Parts
Centering on the lower Danube with its feathery tributaries, this palette was designed to isolate the tallest hills while staying fairly quiet and a bit on the sad side. Low seashores are made indistinct, and the gray tones are surprisingly readable in distinguishing the degree of local dissection. This is a topographically complex part of… Read more »
Forgotten Land
Westerners have spoken of Darkest Africa as if there is no light there, which is only part true for the tiny portion (< 5%) with closed-canopy rain forest. The palette of this elevation-only view is gray to evoke the lack of familiarity, and the coasts use a bloody set of hues to remember their violent… Read more »
Greater Somalia
It used to be that the long slopes of this region were traversed by pastoralists in rhythm with seasonal cycles, so herds could take advantage of lowland wet-season production, and save the highland areas as dry season reserves. The post-colonial imposition of national boundaries made little sense ecologically. Chronic warfare has resulted in Eritrea, in… Read more »
October Day
The coincidence of a cloudfree day, the height of autumn foliage, and a well-behaving satellite in local orbit made this construction possible. It stretches thirteen feet, through four images, from Quebec to Barnegat Bay NJ. The green pastures of New England can be individually identified, and the different species mixtures of trees are amusing to… Read more »