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Ignace Pelckmans
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geography
9y
Google Earth pearls #15: The Amazing Lake District
Today, I'll take you to a nice small community, called Wasdale Head in the charming Lake District. It's nothing more than a pub, an hotel, some houses and a small touristic shop at the foot of Scafell
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Google Earth pearls #14: Upland farming in Ethiopia
Today's image is coming from the Ethiopian highlands. In the valleys you can see thousands of small farms in a so called 'upland permanent farming' system. It is the final stage in the expanding usage
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ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #13: a fertile desert
Today we find ourselves in the Utah dessert near a town called Moab. It's quite a place, during the summer the temperatures can exceed 40 °C (100 °F) while in the winter months the thermometer can sink
ignacepelckmans
geography
9y
Google Earth pearls #12 Miami, living like God... in a swamp
It's so Miami... If you ever have the chance to fly to Miami or just transfer there, look outside your tiny airplane window when flying over this Florida's gem. America's cleanest and richest city might
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth Pearls #11: Stairway to the rice-heaven
Welcome in China! As a geographer, I carry some interest in agriculture, the über form of interaction between the physical earth and us, human beings. Today's pearl shows the magnificent Chinese rice terraces.
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #10: A sliding disaster
Today's post features a big avalanche, called 'The West Salt Creek landslide'. In 2014, a massive mass of ground start sliding down until it stopped 4.5 km further. The enormous avalanche moved almost
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #9 the Nile, victim or top dog of the Cold War?
What you can see on today's picture is a bend in the famous Nile river, 100 km north of the Aswan dam. Some of you may remember from history lessons in high school that the seasonally flooding of the Nile
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #8: River piracy, aaar
Welcome in Alaska, more specifically: welcome at the Kaskawulsh glacier. Glaciers are always quite spectacular from the air, whether it is from an airplane or on Google Earth. I am, however, not showing
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #7: The geography behind Champagne
Welcome in the Champagne region in France. What you can see in the middle, are the grape ranks which are the first step to the famous champagne whine. The other fields are regular Western European cropland
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth Pearls #6
No rivers or mountains for today, but dunes. A lot of dunes. The image of the day is a satellite image from the Arabic peninsula. What you can see are a thousand of so called barchan dunes. Barchan dunes
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #5
The picture of today shows two worlds: the border between Russia and China. The Russian city, on the northern bank of the river, is not that chaotic but compared to the Southern urban centre, it is inferior
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #4
My favorite Google Earth Image of the day is one from the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh. It shows the enormous impact of environmental policies on land use and the complex consequences and trade-offs of
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #3
This pearl is an areal image of the Moroccan Sahara dessert. It shows what happens when a rain shower hits once or twice a year but when it happens, it rains dogs and cats. There is no vegetation and erosion
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #2
Not even everyone know they exist, the so called '-stan' countries. This sattelite picture comes from a mountain ridge on the border between Kazachstan and Kyrgyzstan. The central-Asian mountains are one
ignacepelckmans
science
9y
Google Earth pearls #1
I love Google Earth! It's not only the perfect travel planner or an infinite source of information but it's also stunning. I'll try to share my favourite google earth imagery with you! Today I've found
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steemstem
9y
Why climate change its biggest enemy is climate change itself.
Everyone is starting to become used to the doom scenario of climate change. Even more, we all know it has something to do with carbon and most of us understand that a cold day doesn't make climate change
ignacepelckmans
introduceyourself
9y
Me.
Hi! My Name is Ignace and I am a Belgian, food-loving student geography with a rather creative mind and a interest of what's happening in sandy countries. I love to travel as slow as possible and I strongly
ignacepelckmans
photography
9y
Above the jungly canopy, above the clouds, above everything
Above the jungly canopy, above the clouds, above everything
ignacepelckmans
photography
9y
Winter in Rio...
Winter in Rio...
