Lydia Mihelič Pulsipher - World Regional Geography, Seventh Edition

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY MAP

This portion of the map shows North and South America, Greenland, Western Europe, and Western Africa. North, by the Bering Sea, begins the westernmost tip of North America. The Gulf of Alaska is just south of this tip (Alaska). Mount Denali in Alaska is marked on the map in Alaska, south of which extend the Rocky Mountains all across western North America. West of the mountains, the map marks the Great Salt Lake, the Death Valley and Baja California. East of he Rocky Mountains are the Great Plains. Along the East coast of North America are the Appalachian Mountains. North of the mountains are the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River, which flows into the North Atlantic Ocean in Eastern Canada. The Canadian Shield surrounds Hudson Bay in Northern Canada. At the very north of the continent is the Beaufort Sea and then the Arctic Ocean. East of Northern Canada is Baffin Bat, and Ellesmere Island. Across the Davis Strait (south of Baffin Bay) is Greenland. The Labrador Sea is off the coast of eastern Canada (by the province of Newfoundland). Moving South along the eastern coast of North America, by the southern United States are the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, as well as the islands of Great Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, and Cuba. In South America, the map highlights the Amazon Basin in northern Brazil, formed by the Amazon river. South of the Basin are the Brazilian Highlands. Across Argentina, in the eastern coast of South America, are Patagonia and the Pampas. On the western coast are the Andes, on which Aconcagua Mountain is highlighted. Across the South Atlantic Sea to the East is Africa. This portion of the map shows the Gulf of Guinea along the coast under the easternmost protrusion of the continent. In northern Africa along the coast are the Atlas Mountains. Across the sea to the North is the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). Already in western Europe, the map marks the British Isles, Ireland, Iceland, and the Greenland Sea to the North. The Alps are visible running across the continent.

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is a cultural-historical geographer who studies the landscapes and lifeways of ordinary people through the lenses of archaeology, geography, and ethnography. She has contributed to several geography-related exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., including Seeds of Change, which featured the research she and Conrad Goodwin did in the eastern Caribbean. Lydia Pulsipher has ongoing research projects in the eastern Caribbean (historical archaeology) and in central Europe, where she is interested in various aspects of the post-Communist transition and social inclusion policies in the European Union. Her graduate students have studied human ecology issues in the Caribbean and border issues and issues of national identity and exclusion in several central European countries. She has taught cultural, gender, European, North American, and Mesoamerican geography at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville since 1980; through her research, she has given many students their first experience in fieldwork abroad. Previously she taught at Hunter College and Dartmouth College. She received her B.A. from Macalester College, her M.A. from Tulane University, and her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. For personal enjoyment, she works in her gardens, cans the produce, bakes rhubarb pies, and encourages the musical talents of her grandchildren.

is an independent scholar in Knoxville, Tennessee, who has conducted research on vulnerability to climate change, sustainable communities, and the diffusion of green technologies in the United States. In the early 1990s, Alex spent time in South Asia working for a sustainable development research center. He then completed a B.A. at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, writing his undergraduate thesis on the history of Hindu nationalism. Beginning in 1995, Alex contributed to the research and writing of the first edition of World Regional Geography with Lydia Pulsipher. Since then he has continued to write and restructure content for subsequent editions, and has created innumerable maps and over 120 photo essays. He has also traveled to South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Europe to collect information in support of the text and for the website. In addition to his work on