Your world so far

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Regions

Seven regions cover every place in the Field Guide.

• Region · 39 entries

  Europe & the North Atlantic

  Old stone and cold water: castles and caves, pilgrim roads and island monasteries, glaciers and sea cliffs, in land that people have worked and built on for thousands of years.

• Region · 31 entries

  North America

  Canyons, geysers and great waterfalls, big tides and giant trees, polar bears on the bay, and a walled city above a river.

• Region · 38 entries

  Latin America & the Caribbean

  Glaciers and salt flats, rainforest, reef and great waterfalls, a canal between two oceans, and the works of peoples who built here long before Europeans arrived.

• Region · 35 entries

  Asia

  Temple cities and mountain shrines, limestone towers and vast caves, high pastures and island coasts, from the steppe to the tropics.

• Region · 36 entries

  Oceania & the Pacific

  Remote islands and atolls, ancient dry country, young volcanic ground, and the marae and stone figures of the peoples who crossed the open ocean between them.

• Region · 18 entries

  The Poles

  The far south and the far north: ice and open ocean, short seasons and long crossings.

• Region · 31 entries

  Africa

  Dunes, deltas and salt pans, great rivers and big wildlife, mud-brick villages and a storytellers' square, and volcanic islands off the coasts.

Collections

Groupings that cross or subdivide the regions.

• Collection · 7 entries

  The Antarctic & Southern Ocean

  No country, no visa, no scheduled service — how the expedition season actually works.

• Collection · 6 entries

  Patagonia

  One name, two countries: ice and granite in the west, desert and whale coast in the east.

• Collection · 8 entries

  Canada

  The highest tides on Earth, the planet's mantle above ground, and wild country so large that much of it is known only from the air.

• Collection · 10 entries

  The US National Parks

  Each park a different reason the idea of a national park caught on.

• Collection · 5 entries

  French Polynesia

  Five archipelagos and an ocean the size of Europe.

• Collection · 20 entries

  Australia & New Zealand

  Old dry country and young volcanic ground, remote islands and long coasts, and wildlife found nowhere else.

• Collection · 12 entries

  Waterfalls

  Rivers at the point where they fall, and what the drop does to the land, the wildlife and the people around it.

• Collection · 12 entries

  Volcanoes

  Active volcanoes and the ground older ones left behind, and the ways people and wildlife live with them.

• Collection · 17 entries

  Deserts

  Dry country of many kinds, from dunes and salt lakes to stony plains, and what people and wildlife have made of it.

• Collection · 35 entries

  Sacred & ancient places

  Places people have held sacred or built to last, from Stone Age villages to monasteries still in use.

Every place, as a list

All 228 places in the Field Guide by region. This list works without JavaScript, and it is the easy way in on a small screen.