Atlas of the World

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The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia, where the ground burns constantly with fire; Kasanka National Park in Zambia, where 8 million migrating bats darken the skies; the Nevada Triangle in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where hundreds of aircraft have disappeared; and Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji in Japan, the world’s second most popular suicide location following the Golden Gate Bridge. Additions Include: • Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta • New motorway link, Croke Park, and Aviva Stadium in Dublin • New E-W metro link in Mumbai • Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala • Regional name Queen Elizabeth Land in Antarctica • Latest administrative boundaries in Greenland • Motorways under construction in Ireland • New national park Calanques, near Marseilles • High speed rail link between Karlsruhe and Offenburg in Germany • New motorways in Ukraine and Russia • Principal national parks in Russia • Unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan • Inset map of Hainan The 20th edition of the Atlas of the World has been completely updated and revised. Changes include: • Fully revised index & refreshed satellite imagery • Revised frontmatter country and city statistics • Seven new satellite images of London, Amsterdam, Riyadh, Cairo, Vancouver, Sydney, Panama Canal, and Rio de Janeiro • Six new world thematic maps on water scarcity, immigration, refugees, refugee remittances, direction of oil trade, and globalization • Expansion of Hong Kong approach map to include Lan Tau Island and International Airport

APA: Oxford University. (2012). Oxford atlas of the world (19th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Providing the finest global coverage available, the Atlas of the World is not only the best-selling volume of its size and price, but also the benchmark by which all other atlases are measured.As the Island of Dolls and the hauntingly titled Door to Hell – an inextinguishable fire pit – attest, mystery is never far away. The truths and myths behind their creation are as varied as the destinations themselves.

Addition of Brussel as alternative local name form for Bruxelles (Brussels) as city is officially bilingual. Now shown as Brussel/Bruxelles.Relation to other works: Our library contains other maps and atlases, but none that cover the content in this text. We have other reference text that feature specific countries that might mention explorers, and we do have one reference text that features short biographies of people who have majorly affected history. This text could include explorers.