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by Matt T. Rosenberg
Have you ever longed for a checklist of places every good geographer should visit? Well, I discovered a fascinating site called "A Geologist's Lifetime Field List" which lists the essential places and things a well-traveled geologist should visit...
http://www.uc.edu/geology/geologylist
After viewing this list, I decided to compile a listing of suggested places and experiences a well-traveled geographer should experience. With a lot of help from the visitors to our Geography Forum, here's the list...
Specific Locations
- Abu Simbel, Egypt
- Amazon River and Rainforest
- Anasazi Ruins in Southwest USA (Canyon de Chelly and Mesa Verde)
- Andalucia Region of Spain
- Angel Falls, Venezuela
- Angkor Wat, Cambodia
- Antarctica
- Arches National Park, Utah
- The Badlands
- Bay of Fundy
- The Berner Oberland and Zermatt, Switzerland
- Big Sur and Monterey Bay, California
- Brugge, Belgium
- Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
- The Canadian Rockies
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
- Channel Tunnel
- The Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island
- Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Fez, Morocco
- The Fjords of Norway
- Four Corners, Colorado-Arizona-New Mexico-Utah
- Glacier National Park (especially Going-To-The-Sun Road), Montana
- Grand Canyon (North Rim)
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- Greenwich Observatory and stand on zero degrees longitude
- Guilin, China
- Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
- Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall
- Hanalei Bay, Hawaii
- Hilo, Hawaii
- The islands of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Lake Baikal
- The Lake District, England
- Macchu Picchu, Peru
- Mall of America, Minnesota
- Natural Bridge, Florida
- Nile River
- North and South Poles (if Michael Palin can go there, anyone can).
- Olympic National Park, Washington
- Panama Canal
- Paris, France
- Petra, Jordan
- Pompeii
- Prague, Czech Republic
- The Pyramids
- Rural Northern New England in the autumn (or any season for that matter)
- Sagres
- San Francisco, California
- Sears Tower, Chicago
- Sequoia National Park, California
- The Serengeti
- Shinto shrines in Kyoto and throughout Japan
- St. Petersburg, Russia
- Stonehenge (and Avebury)
- Straits of Gibraltar
- Suez Canal
- Sydney, Australia
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Tracy Arm, Southeast Alaska
- Uluru, Australia
- Venice and northern Italy
- White Mountains of New Hampshire
- Yellowstone National Park
- Yosemite National Park, California
- Zion Canyon's The Narrows
General Locations
- Cross the International Date Line
- Equator
- Explore a deep cave
- Find a place on earth where you cannot see any evidence of human impact at all, including light pollution or noise
- A major desert
- Sail or boat across the major oceans
- See a huge city - L.A., Mexico City, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, N.Y.C., etc.
- See a large waterfall
- See the ocean, especially the Atlantic and Pacific
- See the view from the top floor of a really tall building
- Travel to a place with a different language and culture
- Visit a national capital (and capitol?)
- Visit a permafrost landscape
- Visit a point below sea level (on land)
- Visit each continent
- Visit every country on your home continent
- Visit one of the world's largest airports
- Visit each major climate zone (Koppen)
- Visit the geologic eccentricities of Iceland
Experiences
- Climb a mountain
- Cross an International Boundary
- Eat a different food from a different country every night for a month
- Experience a hurricane
- Experience a significant earthquake
- Feel hailstones larger than marbles
- Have a real friend in several countries
- Observe a tidal bore
- See a glacier calve
- See and hear a flash flood
- See and smell a live volcano
- See significant river or coastal flooding
- Speak at least two languages fluently
- View the Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australis
- Walk on a sand dune in a desert where you cannot see anything but sand in any direction
- Witness an avalanche
- Witness a solar eclipse
- Witness a tornado
- Whale-watching in Baja California
Do you have any questions about this list? Do you have others to add? Do you think any should not be on this list? Post your thoughts, comments, or suggestions onto our ongoing thread on the Geography Forum!
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