3 Jun

Venezuela: Migration Crisis

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Venezuela
Migration Crisis
Thousands have crossed the border from Venezuela to Colombia seeking food, medicine, and supplies after leader Nicolas Maduro reopened the border for the first time in four months. Over 4 million people have fled Venezuela since the end of 2015 amid food shortages, hyperinflation, and a contentious leadership crisis between Maduro and self-declared and U.S.-backed leader Juan Guaido. The U.N. refugee agency reported on Friday that the high rate of departure is a recent development: 1 million Venezuelans have fled the country since November 2018. Although most of the migrants are going to Colombia, a sizable number have gone to Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina along with a number of Caribbean countries. 

This map depicts where in South America Venezuelan migrants fleeing the social and political crisis are going. Click on the map to learn more.

*This year’s AGS Symposium, Geography 2050: Borders and Borderless World, will take place on November 21 and 22, 2019. Register for the Symposium here.

Graphic Source: Reliefweb
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Scotland
Largest Crater in Britain Found
Scientists from Oxford and Exeter universities are closing in on the location of a 1.2 billion-year-old asteroid crater off the coast of northern Scotland. Researchers believe that the crater, which is over 12 miles wide, was left by a meteorite estimated to be over half a mile in diameter and traveling at 38,000 mph. It was the largest asteroid ever to strike the U.K. While a previous team had found evidence of the crater near the town of Ullapool in 2008, the current study has pinpointed the site on the eastern side of the Minch strait, just outside Enard Bay.

This map depicts the predicted location of the crater in the Minch, which separates the Inner Hebrides from the western island of Lewis and Harris. Click on the map to learn more.

Graphic Source: BBC
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Italy
Venice Protests Against Cruise Ships
Approximately 5,000 people protested on Saturday against cruise ships in Venice’s Giudecca Canal. The march took place following an accident on June 2nd in which 5 people were injured when a cruise ship crashed into a smaller boat. Environmentalists warn that these large vessels pollute the air, displace water, disrupt the local aquatic environment and erode the city’s foundations. The Mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, urged the opening of the city’s alternative canal, known as the Vittorio Emmanuele III, whose proposed route is shown on the map. 

This map depicts the current and suggested cruise ship routes in Venice. Click on the map to learn more. 

Graphic Source: BBC

             

Friday’s Answer

Q: What is the largest below-sea-level depression by surface area?

A: Caspian Depression, Kazakhstan and Russia
This depression is a low-lying flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. It has an area of approximately 200,000 square kilometers or 77,000 square miles of land below sea level. The depression lies at the southern end of the Ryn Desert, and is in both Kazakhstan and Russia. Both the Ural and Volga rivers flow through the depression into the Caspian Sea. 

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Today’s Question

 

Q: Aside from Iceland’s Thingvellir National Park, at what other location does a mid-ocean ridge extend onto dry land?

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