Summer of 2002
Losiolo
Edge of North
The Caribou Mountains of northern Alberta dominate this late summer image, where deciduous foliage on the cusp of autumn’s turn gives the splashes of yellow-green. The large river is the Peace, and nearby wheat fields are the continent’s most northerly commercial scale agriculture. The image’s upper half is within the Wood Buffalo National Park, where… Read more »
Leopold Ranges
Clark’s Fork
Crossroads
Ireland
Headwaters
Land of Edges
More of the Colorado Plateau is found in Arizona than in any of the other four corner states. In this elevation graphic it forms a broad green platform for a variety of different mountain types: the massive volcanoes at lower right, the cone fields of the center, long mesas near the upper edge, and the… Read more »
Rural in Mongolia
End of the Mountains
Gardens on the Plain
As the Indus River emerges from its Himalayan journeys on the left, it is garnered into a vast and ancient irrigation system which supports millions of farmers in this area of the western Punjab. The folded mountains in the lower portion are part of the Tribal Zone which has been recently so much under siege…. Read more »
Escarpments
The geometry of East Africa’s rift troughs seemed impossibly complex, until Shuttle-based elevation data allowed such views as this in 2005. From the north of Kenya to central Zimbabwe, rift trends cross and pass under each other like a roller coaster. Colors range from torrid down low to the moderate greens of the most temperate… Read more »
Part of Down Under
Susquehanna
Mountains of the Moon
Most of Papua
Far to the East
The spatial isolation of Japan and Korea is clear from this rendition of elevations stretching from Taiwan to Kamchatka. The mainland is marked by the courses of the Yangtze River on the left and the Amur River on the right. Major volcanoes are obvious in North Korea, Honshu and Hokkaido, and on the many island… Read more »
Columbia
North Britain
South of France
Along the Green River
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 »
Malay
Slice of the Baltic
Lompoc
Baluchi Ridges
In Baluchistan ridges curve continuously through the borderlands of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The lower Indus River floodplain fills the broad dune-flecked flats to the right, near a coast of scalloped promontories tipped with the vestiges of transverse ridges. Kandahar is at center top, while Quetta nestles in the high mountains to the right. These… Read more »