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25 fun and strange geography facts that prove that we live in a fascinating world.
1. Africa is the only continent situated in all the four hemispheres – the western, the eastern, the northern and the southern.
2. Lesotho, The Vatican and San Marino are the only three countries in the world that are surrounded entirely by only one country. Lesotho borders South Africa, The Vatican and San Marino border Italy.
3. The Greek national anthem consists of 158 verses. It is not known if there is a Greek who can sing them all by heart.
4. There is not a single river in Saudi Arabia.
5. The shortest place name in the world is Å. Villages with this name can be found both in Norway and Sweden. In the Scandinavian languages “Å” means “River”.
6. The smallest country area is that of the Vatican (2 square miles/5 square kilometers), while the largest city area is that of Hulunbuir in China (101,912 square miles/263,953 square kilometers)
7. New York drifts away from London 1 inch/2,5 cm every year.
8. Dust from Africa can reach as far as Florida.
9. The Himalayas are getting higher 0,6 inch/1,5 cm every year.
10. There is a heart-shaped coral reef in Australia.
11.Cuba is the only Caribbean country that has a railway.
12. The biggest pyramid in the world is not in Egypt but in… Mexico. It is called Cholula and is currently covered in grass.
13. All the gondolas in Venice must be black unless they are the property of a high-ranked official.
14. The name of Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata or canada, meaning village or settlement.
15. The Transsiberian Railway in Russia crosses 3901 bridges along its way.
16. The Philippines Archipelago consists of 7107 islands.
17. Around 90% of the world population lives in the northern hemisphere.
18. Until 2002 there was an agreement between Monaco and France that if the principality doesn’t have a male heir, Monaco would lose its independence.
19. It’s forbidden for airplanes to fly over the Taj Mahal.
20. Mexico City sinks 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) a year because it was built over a lake. The city has sunk around 32 feet/10 m in the last 60 years.
21. The first city to reach 1 million inhabitants was Rome in 133 BC. London reached the line in 1810, New York – in 1875. Nowadays more than 300 cities in the world have more than a million inhabitants.
22. Amman – the capital of Jordan, used to be called Philadelphia.
23. If a man gives a woman a compliment in Togo, he should marry her.
24. Until almost the end of the 80’s there was not a single phone in Bhutan.
25.On the 18th of February 1979 it was snowing in the Sahara.
Title: Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004
M.A., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1998
PGDipSci, Tropical Geography, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1995
BA, Biology and Anthropology, Grinnell College 1993
Research Areas
I am a geographer and political ecologist who specializes in the study of wetland policy and market-based environmental policy. I have written extensively on wetland banking, ecosystem services, economic theories of value, and compensation under the Clean Water Act.
Courses Taught
Strong willed quotes. GEOG 139: Living in the Global Environment
GEOG 439: US Environmental Policy and Regulation
Recent Publications
Robertson, M., T. BenDor, R. Lave, J.A. Riggsbee, J.B. Ruhl, and M. Doyle. 2014. Stacking Ecosystem Services. Frontiers in Ecology and Environmental Science.
Robertson, M. and J. Wainwright. 2013. The Value of Nature to the State. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(4): 890-905.
Robertson, M. 2012. Measurement and Alienation: Bringing Ecosystems to Market. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 37(3): 386-401.
Robertson, M. 2009. The Work of Wetland Credit Markets: Two Cases in Entrepreneurial Wetland Banking. Wetland Ecology and Management 17(1): 35-51.
Hough, P. and M. Robertson. 2009. Mitigation under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act: Where it Comes From, What it Means. Wetland Ecology and Management 17(1): 15-33.
Robertson, M. and N. Hayden. 2008. Evaluation of a Market in Wetland Credits: Entrepreneurial Wetland Banking in Chicago. Conservation Biology 22(3): 636-646.
Robertson, M. M. 2007. Discovering price in all the wrong places: commodity definition and price under neoliberal environmental policy. Antipode 39(3): 500-526.
Robertson, M. M. 2006. The nature that capital can see: science, state and market in the commodification of ecosystem services. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(3): 367-387.
Robertson, M. M. 2004. The Neoliberalization of Ecosystem Services: Wetland Mitigation Banking and Problems in Environmental Governance.Geoforum 35(3): 361-373.
Robertson, M. M. 2000. 'No Net Loss': Wetland Restoration and the Incomplete Capitalization of Nature. Antipode 32(4): 463-493.
Graduate Students and Postdocs
Laura Lawler (M.S.)
Nicolle Etchart (Ph.D)
Eric Nost (Ph.D)
Patrick Bigger (University of Kentucky)
Brian Grabbatin (University of Kentucky)
Contact Information
Website: http://morgan-robertson.com/
Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Email:mmrobertson@wisc.edu