Geography professor and artist Stentor Danielson created a...

This is Zavikon Island, one (or actually two) of the Thousand Islands between New York and Ontario in the St. Lawrence River. You may have seen this picture, with the bridge with flags attached, and the story that the la...

(Photo: Yolda Olmak)Jutting up out of the waters of Phang Nga Bay on the western coast of Thailand is the small island of Ko Tapu. It’s also known as James Bond Island because scenes from the 1974 movie The Man wit...

This is Lake Superior. It's the largest lake in North America.This is Isle Royale. It's the largest island in Lake Superior. Native Americans once mined it for copper. Benjamin Franklin, one of the American negotiators o...

How quickly can you identify 20 countries in Africa? How about 50? I did reasonably well on the 50 test, though Cape Verde gave me a bit of trouble.David Bauer designed this online quiz on the locations of the nations of...

The world's biggest and deepest freshwater lake is Lake Baikal in Russia. It has a surface area of 12,248 square miles and a depth of up to 5,387 feet -that's a mile deep! But as fascinating as the facts are, the myths a...

[http://youtu.be/XFxjy7f9RpY] (YouTube link)Jimmy Kimmel interviews five-year-old Arden Hayes, who gained fame by knowing everything there is to know about U.S. presidents. He showed off that knowledge on Jimmy Kimmel Li...

Frances Henshaw was a 14-year-old schoolgirl when she drew a series of maps in 1828. There were only 24 states at that time; she reproduced 19 of them. Henshaw preserved her work in a book with information about each sta...

This week's quiz from b3ta's quiz site, UsvsTh3m, challenges you to identify where in the world a toilet is located by its photograph. This quiz isn't timed, so there's no pressure. And in some of these toilets, I'm sure...

Us vs. Th3m, the folks who brought us the maddenin...  ...your speed and concentration called You Can't Do Geography Under Pressure. It goes pretty fast! Think you're...