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Cat Frampton
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· May 17
A new peat map for England
By Dr Ruth Waters, Director for Evidence, Natural England, and David Jones, Senior Responsible Officer for the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment, Defra England’s peat deposits are one of our mo...
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Glendon Mellow
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· Apr 23
For Earth Day this year, we present ten satellite images taken by the Earth imaging company Planet Labs, which owns and operates a network of hundreds of small satellites orbiting our planet.
These images were captured during Planet Labs’ routine scan of the globe:
These images were captured during Planet Labs’ routine scan of the globe:
Earth Day: The wonder of iconic satellite images
There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for decades moved us emotionally, scientifically, and philosophically. The iconic Earthrise image of our planet rising…
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![Pictured is an annotated version of a fold-out map which was included in early editions of the Lord of The Rings. The map shows readers Tolkien’s fantasy world ‘Middle-earth’.
The annotations are by Tolkien himself, and were for the benefit of Pauline Baynes, an artist who was creating an illustrated poster map of Middle-earth.
Baynes ripped the map out of her own 1954 copy of Lord of the Rings and took it to Tolkien, who covered it with notes, including many extra place names that do not appear in the book. Since most were in his own invented Elvish language he helpfully translated some: ‘Eryn Vorn [= Black Forest] a forest region of dark [pine?] trees.’
The annotations give an insight into how vividly Tolkien pictured Middle-earth in his mind, and how thorough his research was. They include a series of geographical pointers about the latitude of key locations: ‘Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at latitude of Oxford,’. ‘Minas Tirith is about latitude of Ravenna (but is 900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade). Bottom of the map (1,400 miles) is about latitude of Jerusalem.’
Pictured: MS. Tolkien Drawings 132. copyright Tolkien Estate / Williams College Oxford Programme 2018](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:blxilps4iwbxicionf2rztej/bafkreihyhpyp5dimgthg2hvn4esb7fiyz4q425ceduhvhqpvyr45iz7bry@jpeg)