Its Options time

Whether you are considering Geography at GCSE, AS or A2 or just because you care watch this clip:




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GCSE Options

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Fabulous!!!!!!

Well done to the A-level students on achieving an outstanding set of grades.
"You have the whole world in your hands"
Good luck for the future.

Popocatepetl is ready to pop

Keep your eye on the volcano with the best name.
View this clip at the BBC.
Keep watching Mexico's monitoring programme on this link.

Belfast GIE part 2

A good idea to assist your appreciation of what Duncairn is really like, is to conduct a virtual tour using Google Earth. You may have already annotated ground level images of the Cathedral Quarter, as part of your research into item 2. You now need to do the same for the following addresses

• Keadyville Ave (Duncairn 2)


• Duncrue Street (Duncairn 2)


• Mervue Street (Duncairn 1)


• Duncairn Gardens - Groundwork Northern Ireland (Duncairn 1)

Find a view nearby each of the above locations, take a screen grab and annotate. Please remember the view at the top of this page is an aerial view not the ground level view that you should use.

Belfast GIE part 1

This years GIE will require detailed study of the AIB, in particular the maps. Item 2 explores the work of the Laganside Corporation. A useful way to familiarize yourself with this item will be to produce a map, based on OS map extract from page 9, similar to that you have previously produced for Trafford Park UDC.


Take a copy of the map below. Zoom in on Laganside, cut, paste the area and annotate using text boxes to show how the Laganside Corporation has been able to stimulate developments in each of the following categories

• commercial and office developments



• leisure and tourism



• infrastructure- transport



• retailing



• housing



• environmental improvements

Each annotation should be precisely located. You will need to use results of previous research and the internet.

This map is just for reference, a colour version of your AIB.

100% Pass Rate at A-level

Well done to you all and here's a message from Cliff!

Globalisation at its worse?

You will not have been able to avoid the headlines regarding the concern of "swine flu". This week the World Health Organisation (WHO) claimed that it would be of pandemic proportions and raised there level of concern to a grade 5.

As Geographers we study the spread of disease at A-level and so Swine Flu will be an excellent case-study to monitor.

Click this link to the BBC to watch the way the disease has spread and will spread.

A rocking start to the Easter week

Over 50 people have been killed by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in central Italy.

For more details click this link.

For more factual details click on the US Geological Survey site

The Geography of Crime

Residents of England and Wales can now access online maps which plot recorded crime in their neighbourhood.
The maps show where and when crime happened and they are updated on a monthly basis.

For more information follow this link to the news item on the BBC.

Click this link to take you to the Greater Manhester Police interactive map.

Shakeout Day

On the 13th November over 5 million people in California will take part in the largest earthquake drill ever held.

Click this video link to show you the scenerio:



For more details follow this link to The Great Southern California Shakeout site.

How do you think you would cope in a 7.8 Earthquake? Why not have a go at the Beat the Earthquake Game.

Hurricane hits the Caribbean

Hurricane Paloma has strengthened to a Category Three storm and is lashing the Cayman Islands with winds of up to 185km/h (115mph.

For more information click this link to the BBC news page. To track Hurricane Paloma click this link to the National Hurricane Centre in Miami.

Quake hits southern Pakistan

At least 135 people have been killed after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit Balochistan province in south-western Pakistan, officials say.
Officials in Balochistan say they expect the toll to rise.
The tremor struck 70km (45 miles) north of Quetta at 0409 (2309GMT Tuesday) at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
Many houses collapsed during the quake and some were destroyed in landslides that followed it, officials said.

Norbert strikes land

Hurricane Norbert has struck Mexico's Baja California Sur peninsula with heavy rains and 103mph (165km/h) winds.
The storm made landfall near the city of La Paz, blowing down roofs and uprooting trees. Thousands of residents have fled to shelters.
Forecasters say Norbert will cross the Gulf of California, before making a second landfall on Mexico's north-western mainland.
It is expected to hit the agricultural states of Sonora and Sinaloa later.
Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated to temporary shelters on Mexico's Pacific coast as the storm came ashore, bringing with it 13ft (4m) waves.

It's nearly all over!

Back to school on Tuesday for all you pupils (the staff are in tomorrow!) and its official: the dullest August on record!

It could be worse we could be going to the Caribbean on holiday over the next few weeks - just as Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna get up a head of steam.

Keep an eye on their progress and any other hurricane developments by going to the National Hurricane Centre website: click on the link on the Geog Links below.

Britain goes deep.

Scientists are set to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes, which lie 6km down in the Caribbean.
Delving into uncharted waters to hunt for volcanic vents will be Autosub6000, Britain's new autonomously controlled, robot submarine.
Once found, the life, gas and sediment around the vents - the world's hottest - will be sampled and catalogued.
The research will be carried out by a British team aboard the UK's latest research ship, the James Cook.

For more information link to the National Oceanography Centre in Southhampton.

Judge Judy Rocked

An earthquake measuring 5.4 has caused buildings to shake across a wide area of southern California in the US. One of the buildings had the set of the t.v. show Judge Judy which was in the middle of recording a new programme.

The epicentre was 29 miles (46km) south-east of central Los Angeles, near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County.

For more information look at the USGS page by following the link under the web pages.

Japan Tremor

A powerful earthquake has struck off the eastern coast of Japan, with officials warning that some regions could be hit by a small tsunami.

Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the 6.6-magnitude quake just before noon off Fukushima prefecture.

The agency issued a tsunami warning for Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.

Reports said buildings shook in Tokyo with the force of the quake, but there was not thought to be any serious damage or any casualties.

Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries and experiences thousands of tremors each year.

Japan is rocked

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Honshu, Japan's main island killing 6 and injuring more than 140 people.

In this mountainous part of the island landslides triggered by the shaking earth covered homes and people.

Japan which is on the boundary of the Pacific Plate and Eurasian Plate is prone to earthquakes.

For more details about Japan's earthquake history click on the US Geolgoical website link in the Georgaphy link list below right.