Altered Maps XVIII: Continuing Curious Cartography

[Samson]

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer

Spatial overlap between whales and shipping traffic.
(A) Average annual whale space use across blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whales. (B) Global marine shipping traffic for large (>300 gross tons) vessels, from AIS data from 2017 to 2022. The shipping traffic index weights shipping density by vessel speed on a log-scale, standardized between 0 and 1. (C) Bivariate map showing the intensity of both whale space use and shipping traffic in each 1° by 1° grid cell.

Paper Grundiad

Spoiler The 2.6% :

Ship-strike risk hotspots for large whales.
(A) The spatial overlap of ship-strike hotspots across blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whales. Hotspots were defined as the top 1% of ship-strike risk for each species. Boxes show the locations of zoomed-in panels (B) to (H). (B to H) Hotspots and management zones for the west coast of North America (B), the Northern Indian Ocean (C), the Mediterranean region (D), the coast of East Asia (E), the east coast of South America (F), the coast of Southern Africa (G), and the east coast of Australia (H). (I) Regional percentages of hotspot protection (i.e., the number of hotspots that contained any management measure, either voluntary or mandatory, divided by the number of hotspots in that region) versus the percentage of total global hotspots in each region. There were no hotspots in the Southern Ocean for any species.

 

[Kyriakos]

Mexico had dethroned the US, for a fat second, but now they fell (to) way too much behind.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Don't ask me what it means

 

[r16]

for it to happen the whole world should be invaded by the New World Order and broken into provinces . Like , ı don't know , unless it is some dude making some scenario or something .

 

[Kyriakos]

The three thraces added to Greece would make an ok country ^^
By the way, Kavala isn't where it was placed; it's to the west of the westernmost island (Thasos).

 

[r16]

False! Kleopatra was Egyptian.
True! Kleopatra was Greek.

She was Kurdish! But you don't have the ethical values to say/accept that.

for those who won't get it , the map is clearly impossible to realize when the West gives Egypt to a new Nation State .

 

[Kyriakos]

Lovecraft's octopodes apparently come from the Aegean. The sea is basically that ^^

 

[Arwon]

Indigenous-held land over time

And who owns the rest:

 

[Samson]

 

[Snowygerry]

Yes - there is also this, rarely talked about :

https://www.crisisgroup.org/trigger-list/iran-usisrael-trigger-list/flashpoints/al-tanf-syria

Located in Syria on the Iraqi border and within miles of the Jordanian border, the U.S. garrison at al-Tanf has, since 2016, served as a launching point for counter-ISIS operations and training for Syrian opposition factions fighting the jihadist group. Iranian and Iran-backed forces are deployed in close proximity to the al-Tanf desert outpost, which sits on the strategically significant Baghdad-Damascus highway. U.S. forces in al-Tanf established a 55-km de-confliction zone, beyond which lie an array of forces described as either “pro-regime” or “Iran-backed” that have set up checkpoints in the area. Several incidents in recent months underscore al-Tanf’s potential as a flashpoint between U.S. and Iranian and/or Iran-backed forces.

A bit disrespectful to call the US army just an "other rebel force"

 

[r16]

because it is an invasion force ?

 

[Snowygerry]

The source for the map is Aljazeera apparently, probably a political reason for not mentioning the US.

Mapping who controls what in Syria

Opposition fighters led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seize control of large parts of Aleppo as they push south.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Samson]

The source for the map is Aljazeera apparently, probably a political reason for not mentioning the US.

Mapping who controls what in Syria

Opposition fighters led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seize control of large parts of Aleppo as they push south.

www.aljazeera.com

And they reference syria liveuamap which is interactive.

 

[Snowygerry]

This is also interesting, in the far SE corner, hard to make sense of it all :

12 hours ago - 34°24′N 40°57′E

Thousands of Hashd ash Shaabi fighters from Iraq are flowing through the border at Bukamal to go reinforce the SAA​

The blue icons are both Israeli strikes and this :

Three airstrikes believed to be by the international coalition target the Albukamal area on the Syrian-Iraqi border

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[r16]

since because the President-Elect is either a peace dove or will ruin the US , a little backstabbing against the mostest friendest friends of the West , namely the seperatists . Because of politics in New Turkey . There are no American forces in Syria as the map tells us , so a shrug with hands up in the air . Sorry, dude. We couldn't do a thing.

but can not exactly let go of things because Saudis are getting used to selling oil to China , so attacking Shia reinforcements . Probably driving in the north as Americans could not find any place in all of that sand and they had to settle on the highway between Baghdad and Damascus . Similarly after releasing the Hizbullah which was apparently beating them in South Lebanon or whatever if you are to trust Russians and ensuring the Syrian Regime would not actually fall , Israelis go on providing support to all forms of heart eaters as the war should go on . Until they whip their peaceniks and refuseniks and whatever remained of Israeli Left into shape fit for conquest of their idea of promised lands .

 

[Takhisis]

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Don't ask me what it means

Source?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Source?

Some Twitter account posted it, I don't think they were the one who made it though

 

[Tee Kay]

 

[Valka D'Ur]

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There actually are people in Canada who are so thoroughly fed up with Quebec's anti-English antics that they'd like us (ROC, aka Rest of Canada) to have a referendum on whether they (Quebec) get to stay.

This is a 180-degree turnaround from nearly 50 years ago when the Parti Quebecois got into power provincially. There were plenty of bumper stickers around here (in Western Canada) that said "My Canada Includes Quebec."

You never see those anymore.

 

[danjuno]

Not like there isn't a precedent.