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The Incredible Shrinking Aral Sea 1960-2014

April 19, 2016 1 Comment

The Incredible Shrinking Aral Sea 1960-2008

Map created by NordNordWest via Wikimedia

The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest body of inland water in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 but, as the map dramatically illustrates, it has now shrunk and fragmented to a mere shadow of its former self.

It lies between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. Its drainage basin also includes parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: sea

The Japanese Surprise Attack They Didn’t Teach You In School

December 28, 2014 5 Comments

Battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War

Battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War, Map Source: P. f. Collier & Son

While most people are familiar with the famous Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, you probably don’t know about a similar Japanese attack 36 years earlier. The map above shows the battles of the relatively little known Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: navy, sea, war


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