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2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
Profile through the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula.Morphological main features in the deep sea are shown like the mid-ocean ridge (West Scotia Ridge), separating the Antarctic Plate from the South American Plate.
This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world since 2000. It includes dates of declarations of independence, changes in country name, changes of capital city or name, and changes in territory such as the annexation, cession, concession, occupation, or secession of land.
First time an answer was challenged in the Championship round Published books in his Geography series including Australia and Oceania, United States of America, North America (excluding USA), South America, Africa, and Europe. [14] 2018: Venkat Ranjan California: Eighth Lebanon has a population most similar to which South American country? Paraguay
The Wrigley-Fairchild Prize was established by the American Geographical Society in 1994 as a way to promote scholarly writing among new scholars published in the Geographical Review. The prize was given every three years to the author of the best article by an early-career scholar published in the most recent three volumes of the Geographic ...
Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices, [3] as they provide "an alternative to the detrimental, but unfortunately persistent, habit of teaching geography through rote memorization". [1] They are pedagogical themes that guide how geographic content should be taught in schools. [4]
Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people and societies are ...
13 July – Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his first papal visit to Australia, ahead of World Youth Day 2008. [32] 15 to 20 July – World Youth Day 2008, the Catholic Church's youth festival is held in Sydney. 26 July – The Queensland divisions of the Liberal Party and the National Party merge to form the Liberal National Party.