Geographical

Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Geographical Staff

Dikson, a port town on the North Sea route, sits silently beneath the fading light of the aurora borealis during the Arctic winter. The town was once legendary among the polyarniks – carefully selected polar scientists – who were lured there by the romanticism of Arctic exploration

New book reveals the parts of remote Siberia stuck in time

ByGeographical StaffSep 29, 2023
Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva, new book Hyperborea: Stories from the Arctic takes readers on a remarkable journey into remote Siberia
October 2023 Geographical crossword

October 2023 Geographical crossword

ByGeographical StaffSep 18, 2023
The first correctly completed crossword selected at random wins a hardback copy of the comprehensive Philip’s Essential World Atlas worth £25
Rupert Grey

Writer’s reads: Rupert Grey

ByGeographical StaffSep 16, 2023
Libel layer turned photographer, Rupert Grey, selects from his library some of his favourite and formative reads. Ruperts latest book, Homage to Bangladesh, is out now
Sharyn and Tom Wotton (aka Swampy Tom), Wandella, New South Wales, Australia, January 2020 (from the series Portraits in Ashes)

Gideon Mendel: Portraits of devastation

ByGeographical StaffSep 8, 2023
South African born 'struggle photographer' Gideon Mendel hauntingly captures the aftermath of fires and floods around the world
The Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang in northwest China

Exploring the earth’s core to understand volcanoes and earthquakes

ByGeographical StaffAug 29, 2023
Scientists are probing ever deeper into the centre of the earth and making remarkable discoveries
Geographical September 2023

Geographical September 2023

ByGeographical StaffAug 25, 2023
Geographical's September 2023 issue reports on Indonesia's pledge to go green, life at a research station, and the revival of the river Trent
September 2023 Geographical crossword

September 2023 Geographical crossword

ByGeographical StaffAug 21, 2023
The first correctly completed crossword selected at random wins a hardback copy of the comprehensive Philip’s Essential World Atlas worth £25
maxim samson author of invisible lines

Writer’s Reads: Maxim Samson

ByGeographical StaffAug 18, 2023
Geographer Maxim Samson selects from his library some of his favourite and formative reads. Maxim's first book, Invisible Lines is out now
Wiencke Island, Antarctica - 12 10 17: Two amusing penguins on a cliff in Antarctica with snow falling and one penguin looking at an Antarctic cruise ship and the other penguin looking at the camera

Tourism visitor numbers in Antarctica have risen to over 100,000 a year

ByGeographical StaffAug 6, 2023
The rapidly growing number of tourists visiting Antarctica is raising concerns
Rice fields and a hut in Vietnam

Where in the world: country

ByGeographical StaffAug 5, 2023
Can you identify this country using the following clues and images?
Broomhead Moor. Due to the saturated and boggy ground, the wreckage of the Hawker Hunter T Mk 7 Wallace Cubitt which was was flying to Blackpool in June 1993, became buried deep in the earth after the aircraft had apparently hit the ground in a steep dive

Nicholas Holt: Remembering the fallen

ByGeographical StaffJul 28, 2023
Photographer Nicholas Holt captures tragedy and remembrance as he documents fallen RAF sites for his project Fallen
Los angeles skyline during the day

Invisible lines: a divided world

ByGeographical StaffJul 27, 2023
In this extract of Maxim Samson's Invisible Lines, we take a look at some boundaries keeping us apart, and some bringing us together
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