Zakynthos
A Grecian Island in the Ionian Sea
This island in Greece is called Zakynthos, and from the pictures I saw, it looks beautiful. I found this geographical map on a tourism website for the island, so it mainly shows places and things that a tourist might want to know about. Included are mountains, beaches, main cities and roads, and the airport. The website was in English, but the map is in Greek, which (in my opinion) adds to the exotic appeal of the island. On the website the map is interactive- by scrolling over different parts of the island you can see what tourism activities are available in each place. I enjoyed looking at this map because I got to read a little about the island while looking at it. If you want to check it out, I found the map here:
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
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This is a street map of Phnom Penh during the Asian Festival of Inclusive Arts which I found on the festival's website. The background I read about the festival says that it is designed to raise awareness about including people with disabilities in everyday society. In red, the map shows the different venues in which events took place at the festival. It also includes every street name, and most of them are numbers. I suppose this makes sense and would make it easy to get around, but assigning everything a number seems very military to me. Important tourist attractions are also shown in orange, as the festival coordinators are probably expecting people to come from out of town. I am interested in this map because my sister is moving to Cambodia in one month, and I know NOTHING about Phnom Penh. I chose this map of a festival because it included a lot of information that I might need as a tourist if I manage to visit her.
If you would like to see this map, look here:
If you would like to see this map, look here:
The North Pole
The Moon
This image is a thermal map of the Lunar North Pole that I found on a lunar blog. The cool thing about lunar thermal maps is you can tell a lot about the terrain from the temperatures. You can clearly see the outlines of craters, and several of the larger craters are labeled so (if you happen to know lunar topography...) you can orient yourself. A temperature scale is included so you can tell how cold it is- it appears to get as low as 25 Kelvin. The black lines are probably where the instrument hasn't gotten any data yet. I think that maps like this are awesome because they show us a little more about the moon than we previously knew, however I am a little biased since am doing research on the moon with the team that created this map. :)
