Geography Story Briefs

Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.

What does the Central Gulf of Mexico look like, from a geological perspective?

The Mississippi Canyon, a geological formation in the Gulf of Mexico, is located in an area which is part of the territorial waters of the United Stat...

Not a main tourist destination, Molokai is famous for the work of a Belgian priest, Father Damien de Veuster, who cared for patientswith Leprosy.

Today's fight for Mosul is not the first time this city has been embattled. It was once involved in the Battle of Gaugamela, fought between Alexander ...

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin at the Mulberry Grove Plantation. The gin makes growing cotton much easier, on southern plantations, directly leadi...

The land of modern-day Mumbai is geographically different than it appeared in earlier centuries.

Orson Welles' radio play, "Mutiny on the Bounty," debuted in 1939.

Believed to be a superpower of ancient Greece, Mycenae was home to King Agamemnon.

This sketch of Naoetsu Camp 4 - created from memory, after the war was over - is from "A Bridge Across the Pacific Ocean" (a Japanese-language book).

Louis Zamperini and his crew mates aboard their B-24, called Super man, attacked Japanese-controlled Nauru on April 21, 1943.

For a thousand years, or so, birds flying over the Pacific island of Nauru have left their droppings on the island.

THIS CLIP DEPICTS THE LIFE OF NERO, A ROMAN EMPEROR, AND CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF REAL PEOPLE AND REAL EVENTS.

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