• the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek, Roman and other mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical features, speed and power?
• the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers?
• in the 1820s, several books on geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
• French geography professor Henri Enjalbert theorized that Albania, the Ionian islands and southern Dalmatia were the only European regions with grapevines following the last Ice Age?

Facts on topics related to Geography

Cartography

• Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
• Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?
• Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest?
• Fidler Point on Lake Athabasca is named for Peter Fidler, a map-maker, fur trader and explorer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company?
• a circumferentor was an important tool to surveyors for mapping the North American frontier?
• from 1946 to 1991, Ordnance Survey International provided a central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates?

Geographic information system

• NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?