I was curious about Alert’s name, and assumed it was because the town served as an alerting system for something, but I looked it up and turns out it’s cause a ship called HMS Alert wintered there.
Also I’ve only ever heard it pronounced the French way: “ah-LAIR”
I wish I knew people who talked about Alert (or Alert as I guess I will now start pronouncing it).
While we’re at it? It’s actually pronounced gif.
Wow that is remarkably disappointing. How could such a savage and uninvited place have such a scary name? By chance, essentially.
Oooh, fun. I’d love to see this for south as well, maybe even east and west, ooh and altitude might be interesting too
East and west doesn’t really work. They’re continuous. There is no easternmost point or westernmost point.
South and altitude would be cool though
East and west work fine if you use either the international date line or 180 degrees as the “edge.” Tbh tho, east probs wouldn’t be too interesting, it would just be Tokyo, maybe another coastal asian city, and some islands
You could use 0 and 180 degrees longitude
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but those population numbers seem very wrong. Last I checked, NYC only had about 8.4 million people and Tokyo only 13.9. Does this include the surrounding suburbs?
Yes. This map says “human settlements”, not “population counts within city limits”. There are various ways to define the borders of an urban settlement, and the numbers represented seem to align with the figures under “urban area” in this list, which is defined within and pulled from this report.
Wouldn’t the title qualify somewhere like Barrow, Alaska for this list? Basically every location with people that is really, really far north?
They changed its name to Utqiagvik in 2016
They’re not as far north as Tiksi, Russia, which has over a hundred more inhabitants
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I’m confused about what this map is actually saying. This is basically just the max population city on any given long. But that’s the other thing, what’s the east west cutoff? There’s multiple settlements from Russia, so it’s not per country. Lots of those settlements are much closer together to each other than say, new York and Seattle or LA or whatever it would end up being. What’s the margin of degrees on east west?
Best I can tell, the data set must have been “we picked some random recognizable and unheard of settlements and called it good.”
Also the geographic north pole isn’t marked on the map, which adds to the confusion. The lat/long don’t even go to the north pole, or anywhere close to it! That’s arguably the most important reference point of the axes…
Maybe someone who understands the map better can explain it better, but from the information I can see it makes no sense and doesn’t seem to tell me anything.
