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Africa

• Zaghouan Aqueduct
  microApr 4, 2024tunisiaruinsancient romeafrica

  Zaghouan Aqueduct. South of Tunis, Tunisia. Visited in 2014. Built by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago, and channeled water from the springs to the south to coastal Carthage.

• Richat Structure
  microMar 19, 2024geologyafricamauritaniageography

  The Richat Structure in the Saharan Desert of Mauritania. An eroded geologic dome.

• Temple Des Eaux
  microMar 7, 2024tunisiaruinshistoryafrica

  Temple des Eaux. Zaghouan, Tunisia. Built by the Romans to supply the city of Carthage with water from its sacred spring. Visited in 2014.

• Team Rubicon Leverages Fulcrum in Cyclone Idai Response
  postsAug 6, 2019FulcrumFulcrum Communitydisaster responseAfrica

  This is the kind of stuff that gets you out of bed in the morning and really gets the motivators up to do things like Fulcrum Community to support disaster relief efforts. When Cyclones Idai and Kenneth steamrolled in…

• Places: Lake Natron
  postsMay 22, 2019placesgeographyTanzaniaAfrica

  Only geography nerds have NASA's Earth Observatory feed set up in their RSS reader. On there a team from NASA share interesting images from around the world as they come in from the various earth observation satellite…

• Places: Richat Structure
  postsMay 10, 2019placesgeographydesertmountains

  I browse maps all the time, panning around in Google Earth whenever I want to look something up, favoriting things along the way. I thought I’d start documenting some of those here. The Richat Structure is a circular…