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The Great Unmapped Desert

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Due to massive irrigation to feed Soviet era cotton fields, the Aral Sea (in fact a lake) in Uzbekistan has reduced from nearly 70,000 square kilometres 40 years ago to under 20,000 square kilometres now.
This leaves vast tracts of desert that are mostly uncharted and unexplored …
Get out there and explore!