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Brazil
Deadly Dam Collapse
On Friday, a dam collapsed at an iron ore mine in the southeastern town Brumadinho, Brazil. Mud and mine waste buried the cafeteria where the workers were having lunch; at least 300 people are missing and 58 people have been confirmed dead. The governor of the state Minas Gerais, where Brumadinho is located, said there was little chance of finding people alive. Rescue workers resumed efforts to find the missing on Sunday after a brief suspension over fears a second dam was at risk of breach. The dam’s alarm system, which local residents were trained to respond to, reportedly failed during the accident. It is not clear what caused the dam to collapse.
This map depicts the state of Minas Gerais and Brumadinho, where the collapse took place. Click on the map to learn more.
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Italy
Deadly Air Collision
A helicopter and a light aircraft collided midair over the Rutor glacier near La Thuile, a popular ski resort in the Italian Alps on the France-Italy border on Friday. Italian police have arrested the French flight instructor who survived the collision that killed seven people. Prosecutors believe the instructor, on a training flight with two passengers, was attempting to land their aircraft on the glacier when it collided with a helicopter lifting off from the glacier that was carrying tourists.
This map depicts the location of La Thuile on the border of France and Italy. Click on the map to learn more.
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Philippines
Church Bombing
On Sunday, a pair of bombs at a Catholic church on the Phillippine island, Jolo, killed at least 21 people and left 100 more injured. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. Philippine officials believe that members of Abu-Sayyaf, a local terror group linked to ISIS, were responsible for the attack. Jolo is a Muslim-majority island in the autonomous Muslim Mindanao region of the Philippines. For decades, the region has been troubled by the presence of various Islamic militant groups.
This map depicts the location of Jolo Island where the two bombs took place. Click on the map to learn more.
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| This intricately designed map of Amsterdam is far different from other maps of Amsterdam. While this artistic rendition depicts the streets and abundance of canals in the ‘Venice of the North’, the map is not printed on paper or a digital mapping platform. Rather, it is made by hand. Artist Nils Westergard was inspired to create a map of the streets of Amsterdam when he found a Linden tree leaf on a bike ride from Utrecht to Amsterdam. To produce this map, Westergard scanned the leaf, then took a map of Amsterdam and overlayed it onto the skeleton of the bottom half of the leaf. He was then able to create a stencil of the map using an X-Acto knife. The map was reproduced 10 times and then sold in 2015.
Though only the bottom half of the leaf depicts Amsterdam, the physical geography of Amsterdam is crucial to the success of this map. Amsterdam borders the IJ River, represented by the center stem of the Linden tree leaf. Additionally, Amsterdam is shaped similar to a semi-circle, with its northern boundary being fairly straight and wide, then coming together in the south as an imperfect semi-circle. The geographic boundaries of Amsterdam fit well along the frame of half a leaf. All-in-all, the artistic design of the map is intriguing and noteworthy, blending personal experience traversing the city with art and nature – truly an urban and physical geographical experience.
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Q: In what country does Europe’s longest river start and end?
A: Russia
The Volga River, spanning almost 2,300 miles, is Europe’s longest river. The river travels in the southern direction from Valdai Hills, northeast of Moscow, and empties into the Caspian Sea.
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Q: What European nation has the shortest coastline?
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