The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

Greenland appears larger than it really is. Keep reading on The WiC Project Lifestyle Blog & Miriam's Boutique: Home Goods, ...

Traveler contributing editor Andrew Evans finds the “real” Equator in Ecuador. Attention all map nerds! I am one of you. That means I go nuts about imaginary lines on the Earth–especially the Equator.