r/geography • u/Internal-Estate-553 • Mar 17 '24
Can you think of any location in the world that is actually sorta like this? Discussion
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u/ylw_j Mar 21 '24
Austin TX. Keep hiking on any trail and you’ll see swamp, moss, and cactus within 5 minutes of each other. The color of the soil ain’t even the same.
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u/Internal-Estate-553 Mar 21 '24
Austin sucks ass
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u/Engineering_Flimsy Mar 22 '24
Ever been to Tucson? I think it out-sucks Austin many times over. Sucks so hard it draws blood. In fact, I don't see how Austin can even get close to the anus with Tucon's sun-chapped lips perpetually locked on there.
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u/trickster9000 Mar 20 '24
Olympic State Park in Washington, USA. It has a mountain range with one side being a rain forest (not tropical, but still a rain forest) and the other is a beach.
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u/HalfPointFive Mar 20 '24
Kenya is very much like this. Minus the iceberg, and the glaciers on Mt. Kenya are basically gone at this point. We also have very little jungle and no atolls or fjords. Although much of the coastal land is basically built up coral, so we may have something close to an atoll.
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u/Lygore Mar 20 '24
Depends on scale. North America could fit that, but so can Brazil and Australia. The issue would be finding an area with a marshy isthmus on an atoll, an archipelago, a desert across the strait, an iceberg in a sea located past mountains with a geyser at their base. The geyser should be closer to the volcano, IMHO. Basically, at a local level it is highly unlikely to naturally occur, while a regional or global level makes this situation possible, with large distances between ecosystems and biomes presented on the graphic.
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u/InformalShoulder2884 Mar 19 '24
I didn’t see the glaciers, but South Africa … but they used to have glaciers 😅😅😅
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u/namitynamenamey Mar 19 '24
Were it not for the forest and the iceberg I'd suggest Venezuela, near the andes and Colombia.
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u/oaken_duckly Mar 19 '24
My backyard on summer days when I'm not home or otherwise detained from enjoying it.
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u/Teddybassman Mar 19 '24
Bog enthusiasts getting left out! No, a marsh ain't a bog! Make bogs great again!
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u/Midnight_freebird Mar 19 '24
California. No jungle, but there’s a delta that’s very swampy like the Everglades.
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u/Peabeeen Mar 19 '24
A lot of places in South America such as Chile, Colombia, and maybe Peru reminds me of this.
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u/MarekRules Mar 19 '24
Washington State is actually pretty close. Only things I think were missing in a small area is Icebergs and idk if Eastern Washington is technically a desert but it has a lot of the features and has very little rainfall.
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u/thiccdaddyflea Mar 18 '24
This looks exactly like the backside of the map ragnorok from ark survival evolved
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u/Stabstone Mar 18 '24
I remember seeing things in text books as a kid and turn it into a map for adventuring
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u/CocteauTwinn Mar 18 '24
LOL I recognized this poster instantly. It hung on my classroom wall for 20 years. 😊
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u/ColdFire-Blitz Mar 18 '24
If Horizon Zero Dawn taught me anything, the general area around the Four Corners
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u/Jamie7Keller Mar 18 '24
Hawaii. One side of the mountain is a rain forest, but the wet ocean air gets cold over the mountain and drops all its rain…literal desert with cactus and dead grass on the other side.
No mesa or plateau or iceberg or tundra as far as I know. But it’s as close as I’ve ever seen.
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u/frisky_husky Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
Washington comes pretty damn close. If you're willing to accept temperate rain forests, I believe the state has all of these in some form or another (including tundra high in the Cascades and Olympic Mountains), in quite close proximity. The geographic diversity of the Pacific Northwest is absolutely astounding.
You've even got scablands, which likely formed through repeated cataclysmic outburst flooding. I only know of one other likely example of this phenomenon on a similar scale. The geology and geography of the region leads to some really unusual combinations of features.
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u/SavageNomad_2313 Mar 18 '24
The pacific northwest has all of those features, except for maybe mess and plateaus.
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u/thetangible Mar 18 '24
Mexico. The country has 1.5% of the world’s landmass but has 12% of the world’s biodiversity.
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u/Far_Ninja6886 Mar 18 '24
Like Chile, the central coast of British Columbia, Canada. Rainforest, fjords, and mountains with glaciers on the coast and not far beyond inland is the dry plateau.
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u/thegreenseda Mar 18 '24
Omg I know where this is from I'm pretty sure. Growing up we had this kinda speak and say informational game where you could like choose answers from things. It had these illustrated card inserts with punch holes in the side so the computer could "read" what card was inserted. When you turned it on it had this robotic voice that said "I N S E R T A C A R D". Dang, I wish I knew what that thing was called.
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u/talizorahvasnerd Mar 18 '24
I fondly remember staring at this picture and imagining either living in each biome or a warriors cat clan in each biome instead of y’know, paying attention in class.
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u/ZanimljivostiIJos Mar 18 '24
Watch my new video, I'd be grateful, it's a new channel and I'll try to do as interesting topics as possible so that you can learn new details about the world around us.
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u/Comfortable-Study-69 Mar 18 '24
Some parts of Chile and Peru around the atacama desert would be kind of like this minus the icebergs.
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u/SimonTC2000 Mar 18 '24
The Genesis Planet.
"All the varieties of land and weather known in a few short hour's walk"
Just be on the lookout for Spock's photon coffin and Klingons.
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u/Chris_on_crac Mar 18 '24
Bruh my history teacher has that shit in his classroom what the fuck 💀
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u/J_Sweeze Mar 18 '24
Salish Sea/Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest
Arid Columbia river basin to the east of the Cacade mountains, Glacially carved Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula temperate rainforest to the west.
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u/noturaveragesenpaii Mar 18 '24
This is how we Californians feel about SoCal. Just add more gridlock. And higher rent.
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u/LetThemBlardd Mar 18 '24
What’s the name for a schematic like this that lays out all the varieties of something (in this case climate)? This sort of illustration has always fascinated me.
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u/Twirling-pineapple Mar 18 '24
Peru has desert meeting the sea and rainforest meeting snowy mountains.
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u/hiitsmadelyn Mar 18 '24
I would alter other peoples Southern California answers slightly. As a Californian - I believe the best depiction of this graphic would be;
From Los Angeles, down to San Diego, over through Palm Springs, and then into Arizona, ending at Sedona. Follow that line through Las Vegas, more remote parts of Nevada, eventually getting to Yosemite. From Yosemite, take the farmland of central CA all the way back to LA and you’ve got it.
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u/First_Medic Mar 18 '24
Nope. Where do you find icebergs in the vicinity of rainforest and desert at the mouth of a long river. My guess is Volga River into the Caspian Sea beside Kyrgyzstan's arid steppe land. Can't place the rainforest though.
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u/xtreetwise Mar 18 '24
New Zealand. Tropical, beachy north island and snowy mountains, dry dessert south island.
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u/Jimmynex Mar 18 '24
The closest may be the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Guajira Desert in northern Colombia. It encompasses diverse landscapes, ranging from deserts, tropical jungles, planes to big mountains and glaciers near the Caribbean coast and the huge Magdalena river, all within a relatively small area.
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u/SwirlyPalm Mar 18 '24
Looks like (West to East) Seattle to Spokane Washington State. Temperate rainforest, cross the Cascades, cross the Columbia River into high desert and plains
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u/backupterryyy Mar 18 '24
On a large scale the desert looks like the Arabian peninsula with Africa to the southwest.
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u/colcom1130 Apr 09 '24
Argentina 🇦🇷 it's long so it makes it quite diverse