Geography

[Raithe]

For a truly random thing... I was just pondering on those places that could be considered famous locations/areas but aren't actually something specific to a country.. Those places that you can say the name, and it immediately conjures up the image/idea of the place.

 

ie: The Congo, The Amazon, The Black Forest, The Himalayas, The Sahari Desert... possibly the Golden Triangle (but that's an artificial one..)

 

Which led me to trying to consider how many places like that there are in the world.. but my minds pulling a blank.

 

So I thought I'd sit down and try some google-fu and wiki-fu to see what might be there..but then realised I didn't have an accurate way to describe that type of subject to search for.

 

I'm curious as to how people would consider describing that collective group.. or suggestions as to other places that might fall in that type of list....

[Hurlshort]

The Nile?

 

What about man-made places like Machu Pichu and the Great Pyramids?

[Raithe]

Yeah, the Nile would be one. I was thinking more of the natural features/locations then man-made ones... Victoria Falls maybe..

 

And it was bugging me that I couldn't put a proper "classification" as to what I was thinking about

 

Edit:

Plus the man-made place like Machu Pichu, The Pyramids, Angkor Wat while grand in one sense don't have the same... sprawling, epic-ness .

 

And yes, it really bugs me when I can't verbalise my thoughts properly

Edited November 5, 2010 by Raithe

[Calax]

Niagra falls, the gobi desert... possibly yellowstone.

[Gorth]

The Grand Canyon, Antarctica, Milford Sound, The Great Barrier Reef, The Jungles of Borneo... lots of places.

 

For less epic and much more unusual places I would love to see Ten Strange Places

[Oblarg]

The only thing Yellowstone immediately brings to mind for me is that godawful ****ing smell.

[Balthamael]

I am not sure if the thing you are looking for even has a name. 'Geographic feature' might be the best match, but I think that is far too wide a term for any search to turn up useful results.

[Raithe]

Yeah, the whole.. wonder of the natural world tends to be more of a specific single feature rather then the sort of.. expansive area.

 

I tend to think some place like Iguazu Falls which spreads out and consists of many features.. sort of falls into what I'm thinking of..

 

While Everest or the like are places within the area..

[Hurlshort]

Yosemite is pretty much as majestic as it gets.

[Orogun01]

Angel falls

[Walsingham]

The toilets at the ferry terminal in Stranraer.

[Orogun01]

The toilets at the ferry terminal in Stranraer.

You have lead a disturbing life

Edited November 6, 2010 by Orogun01

[Walsingham]

The toilets at the ferry terminal in Stranraer.

You have lead a disturbing life

 

LOL I just meant that they sum up the town.

[Humodour]

I imagine the Daintree Rainforest, the Blue Mountains, and Ayre's Rock rate a mention (alongside Gorth's suggestion of the Great Barrier Reef). Although these things are more likely to be famous among ex-British colonies and Asia than anywhere else.