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United States
Testing Sites on Mobile Platforms
Earlier this week, popular mapping platform, Apple Maps added COVID-19 testing sites to all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Users of Apple Maps may now use their smartphones to search for “COVID-19 test” or “coronavirus test” to find the nearest testing location to them, as well as the site’s hours of operation, contact information, and a link to healthcare providers’ websites. The data were acquired via a portal for hospitals and healthcare providers to register as a COVID-19 testing location and verified by Apple before being added to the map. Competitor mapping platform, Google, has added testing locations in 43 states across the country and is working towards offering a more complete database in the coming weeks. According to a survey in 2018, nearly 178 million Americans used either Google or Apple Maps mobile applications monthly. Adding accurate testing location information to these platforms represents an important step forward in providing vital health resource information to a large audience of Americans.
This map depicts COVID-19 testing sites near the American Geographical Society Headquarters in Brooklyn Heights, NY on Apple Maps. All COVID-19 updates will be displayed in a red box.
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Greece
Military Helicopter Crash
One person was killed and five others remain missing after a Canadian military helicopter crashed during a NATO exercise off the coast of Greece. The Cyclone Sikorsky CH-148 helicopter was first reported missing about 50 nautical miles (90 kilometers) off the Greek island Kefalonia after taking off from the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Fredericton on Wednesday. The Greek military confirmed the aircraft crash after debris was found in Italy’s zone of control in the Ionian Sea. Canadian Defense Minister Harjat Sajjan said the flight data recorder was recovered but the cause of the accident remains unknown.
This map depicts the Ionian Sea where the crash debris was located. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Global News
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Antarctica
Lasers Map Ice Melt
Results from a recent NASA mission revealed the most precise measures to date of ice melt in Antarctica, according to a paper published yesterday in Science. NASA Satellites ICESat and ICESat-2 used lasers to measure sixteen years of topographic change, from 2003-2019, over the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Melting at both sites has contributed at least fourteen millimetres to global sea level rise over the survey period. The Antarctic alone lost 118 gigatons of ice per year–one gigaton is enough to fill 400,000 Olympic sized swimming pools. This data will help researchers develop models to estimate the extent and pace of future sea level rise, already predicted to gain as much as eight feet before the end of the century. More than forty percent of the United States’ population and 7.9 trillion of GDP are coastal-based, and extremely vulnerable to sea level rise.
This map depicts the Antarctic’s topographic change between 2003 and 2019. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: The Khunjerab Pass, the world’s highest paved international border crossing, connects which two countries?
A: China and Pakistan
Located in the Karakoram Mountains the pass is situated on the border of Pakistan’s Gilgit–Baltistan Hunza-Nagar District and the Xinjiang region of China. It sits at an elevation of 4.733m (15,528ft) and on the Pakistani side, features the world’s highest ATM.
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Q: The islands of Manukan, Mamutik, and Sulug, which together form a smiley face when viewed from above, belong to which Southeast Asian country?
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