Quotes About Geography

and to compile accurate charts of the coastlines.

In 1488, during the reign of João II, Bartolomeu Dias reached the southernmost point of Africa and rounded what is now known as the Cape of Good Hope;

water and strong currents, appearing to be a strait and the mouth of a big gulf that might be discharging into it.

cape which we discovered before this spit is called the Cape of the [Eleven Thousand] Virgins

spit of sand is in 52 degrees latitude, 521?2 longitude, and from the spit of sand to the other part

we found by miracle a strait which we called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins.

To Magellan, the gulf appeared far more likely to lead to the strait than the Río de la Plata

Schöner's globe depicted a strait cutting through the American continent in the approximate location

of the Isthmus of Panama—several thousand miles north of the actual strait.

Even the daring Schöner hesitated to depict the western coast of South America;

Schöner, like other cartographers of his era, shrank the immense Pacific

Pinzón explored the easternmost shores of Brazil and ventured into the mouth of the Amazon River

the newly discovered land went by various names; not until 1511 did "Brazil" first appear on a map

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

Significantly, Serrão's letters placed the Spice Islands far to the east of their true position;

but in any event his geographical legerdemain alleviated Spain's principal anxiety:

crucial part of the map was obscured, however: the part that showed a waterway extending through South America

Like most explorers of the Age of Discovery, his ideas about the size of the globe, and location of landmasses

A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography.

Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

This kingdom is not just a spiritual realm high above the concerns of human history. Nor is it a matter of geography and national boundaries. It is God's gracious rule in the hearts and lives of his people. Jesus and his apostles announce the present reality of the kingdom of God amid daily life. On one occasion Jesus declares, "The kingdom of God is within [or among] you" (Lk 17:21).

The Greek geographers of Alexandria, when they prepared their world map using the circumference of Eratosthenes, had in front of them source maps that had been drawn without the Eratosthenian error, that is, apparently without any discernible error at all. We shall see further evidence of this, evidence suggesting that the people who originated the maps possessed a more advanced science than that of the Greeks.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

The Deccan Traps volcanoes spilled as much as a half million cubic miles of basalt over an area equal to half of present-day India. In places, the basalt lies more than a mile deep.