Rob's Pages of Stuff

It's a word made up to describe the mostly trivial but sometimes important natural and created geographical features of our interesting world.

This page contains a series of pdf files created from the weekly e-mails sent out over a few years. One day I'll convert them to html as I've already done on my The World's Enclaves and The Australian Empire websites.

There is not much order here - I just wrote and compiled it as I thought of it. Should have spent more time to properly acknowledge the sources of the maps and photos. 

Click here for a pdf file containing some of the world's more interesting places - Geographical Curiosities of the World 1 (about 3.8mB)

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1. CASIQUIARE RIVER                                   (Venezuela)
2. CEUTA AND MELILLA                                (Spain and Morocco)
3. HELGOLAND                                               (United Kingdom and Germany)
4. HENDAYE                                                     (France and Spain)
5. SAINT MARTIN AND SINT MAARTEN      (The Netherlands and France)
6. QUEMOY                                                       (Taiwan and China)
7. TUVALU                                                        (Pacific Ocean)
8. DUI, BANGLADESH AND GWADAR        (Pakistan)
9. DEAL ISLANDS                                           (Tasmania and Victoria)
10. GUANTANAMO BAY                                    (United States and Cuba)

Click here for a pdf file containing some of the world's more interesting places - Geographical Curiosities of the World 2 (about 3.2mB)

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1. GIBRALTAR                                                  (United Kingdom and Spain)
2. SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON             (France and Canada)
3. SARK                                                             (Channel Islands)
4. ROCKALL                                                     (United Kingdom)
5. DIEGO GARCIA                                            (USA and United Kingdom)
6. SIKKIM                                                           (India)
7. BRUNEI                                                         (Brunei)
8. VATICAN CITY                                              (Vatican City)

Click here for a pdf file containing some of the world's more interesting places - Geographical Curiosities of the World 3 (about 4.3mB)

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1. FRENCH GUIANA                                      (South America)
2. ADAM'S BRIDGE                                        (India and Sri Lanka)
3. TRISTAN DA CUNHA                                (United Kingdom)
4. QATTARA DEPRESSION                         (Egypt)
5. OODAAQ ISLAND                                      (Greenland)
6. GREENLAND                                             (Denmark)
7. SPRATLY ISLANDS                                   (China, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei)
8. POINT ROBERTS                                      (United States and Canada)
9. NEUTRAL ZONES                                     (Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia)
10. KURIL ISLANDS                                        (Japan and Russia)
11. SIKKIM                                                         (India)
12. NOVAYA ZEMLYA                                       (Russia)
13. EAST TIMOR                                               (Timor Lorosa'e)
14. CAPRIVI STRIP                                           (Namibia)

Click here for a pdf file containing some of the world's more interesting places - Geographical Curiosities of the World 4 (about 4.0mB)

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1. ATACAMA DESERT                        (Chile)
2. TICLIO                                            (Peru)
3. LAKE TITICACA                              (Peru and Bolivia)
4. MACHU PICCHU                             (Peru)
5. ANDORRA
6. MADRID                                         (Spain)
7. INDIAN COLONIES
8. WESTERN SAHARA                       (Morocco)
9. MONACO
10. MUCKLE FLUGGA                          (United Kingdom)
11. HELL                                              (Norway)
12. KASHMIR                                       (India, Pakistan, China)
13. KHYBER PASS                               (Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Click here for a pdf file containing some of the world's more interesting places - Geographical Curiosities of the World 5 (about 5.0mB)

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1. SINGAPORE
2. PANAMA CANAL                             (Panama)
3. INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY          (United States)
4. FLORIDA KEYS                               (United States)
5. DRY TORTUGAS                              (United States)
6. NIUE
7. ANTIPODES ISLANDS                     (New Zealand)
8. SEVERN RIVER BORE                    (United Kingdom)
9. AL'AZIZIYAH                                    (Libya)
10. ROE RIVER                                     (United States)
11. HISPANIOLA                                    (Caribbean)
12. MACAU                                           (China)
13. BASQUE COUNTRY                         (Spain and France)

Click here for a pdf file containing some of the world's more interesting places - Geographical Curiosities of the World 6 (about 3.9mB)

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1. DIOMEDE ISLANDS                          (Russia And United States)
2. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS                     (Equador)
3. MT CORNELIA                                   (United States)
4. CORINTHIAN CANAL                         (Greece)
5. MARATHON                                      (Greece)
6. ITHACA                                             (Greece)
7. SANTORINI                                        (Greece)
8. MT ATHOS PENINSULA                     (Greece)
9. DELPHI                                             (Greece)

Click here for a pdf file about places where movies have been made - Cinegraphica (about 3.9mB)

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1. TROY
2. MR HULOT'S HOLIDAY
3. THE BLUES BROTHERS
4. CASABLANCA
5. BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAE
6. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
7. THE AFRICAN QUEEN
8. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

Did you know where in Adelaide you can find the suburbs of Chicago, Rugby or Lancaster? Click here for an Excel file that contains a comprehensive list of current and past suburb names - Adelaide's Suburb Names (about 100kB)

Antipodes are those places exactly the opposite side of the globe according to latitude and longitude. In other words, the place that is the absolute furthest from where you are standing.

Click here for an Excel file that contains a calculator to work out any antipodes. A number of examples are given - Robinson's Antipodes Calculator (about 20kB)