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Category Archives: Map of the Week

11 Feb

Map of the Week: The Geography of Marriage

by Catherine McKenna Happy Valentine’s Day, AGS readers! This map from the New York Times is a by-county representation of the likelihood that a 26-year-old in the United States will be married.   One’s hometown plays a large role in shaping...
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4 Feb

Map of the Week: Forecasting bird migration in real-time with BirdCast

By Mike Wallace Bird-watching was a rare bright spot for many people during phases of lockdown and quarantines, and initiated a boom in the hobby that continues today. This newly found fascination with the avian species who live and transit...
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27 Jan

Map of the Week: Bathymetry and History of the Hunga Tonga Caldera

By: Abigail Vandenberg Many of us watched the footage of the massive eruption that occurred on January 15, 2022 in the island nation of Tonga. The submerged caldera known as Hunga Tonga is one of many volcanoes in the Tonga-Kermadec...
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18 Jan

Map of the Week: Tree Species vs Tree Presence

  By Jessie Woldstad In breathtaking detail, a map by William Rankin depicts the number of tree species throughout North America. From first glance, there is a prominent difference between the east and the west. For instance, on the western...
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13 Jan

Map of the Week: Bear Ranges in North America

By: Abigail Vandenberg This map of North America shows the overlapping ranges of three species of bears that inhabit North America. There are only eight species of bears living in the world, most of which reside in the Northern Hemisphere....
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6 Jan

Map of the Week: Draining the World’s Oceans to Visualize Earth’s Surface

By Samantha Hinton Three-fifths of the Earth’s surface is located beneath the ocean, hiding a detailed and intriguing topographical surface, which for a long time was believed to be less understood than the Moon. The map animation was created by...
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28 Dec

Map of the Week: Kiss of the Oceans

By Samantha Hinton This 1931 postcard titled ‘Kiss of the Oceans’ was created to celebrate the powerful creation of the Panama Canal. The original image of the meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as two women looking at each...
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23 Dec

Map of the Week: The Geography of Christmas

By: Abigail Vandenberg Merry Christmas to our AGS readers! The Christmas holiday is filled with traditions and folk stories from diverse geographic backgrounds. Many of the familiar Christmas traditions celebrated today were borrowed and adapted from other cultures. The captions...
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17 Dec

Map of the Week: Average Colors of the USA

By Jessie Woldstad In this map created by Erin Davis, the average colors of the U.S. by county are revealed, showing drastic changes in land cover as seasons pass. Most notably, we see the ways in which some landscapes remain...
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9 Dec

Map of the Week: Mapping Private vs. Public Land in the United States

By Ruqaiyah Zarook Today, private individuals and corporations own approximately 60% of land in the United States. In total, 77 million people own 1.3 billion acres of private land. Additionally, 63% of privately owned lands are farms and ranches, while...
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