Right in the middle of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a wierd, nearly completely round geological construction. It covers a much bigger space than town of Paris — and at first look, it seems fully empty. But proper in the middle of that construction, there’s a single, remoted village: just a few dozen homes, some fields of crops, and grime roads stretching out in each course.
When we first noticed this village on Google Earth, its excessive remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of individuals? How did they wind up there? And what did life seem like in such a spot? To discover out, we teamed up with a neighborhood crew in Madagascar and fell down a rabbit gap of geology and mapping alongside the best way. It’s a narrative of how continental shifts and volcanic geology got here collectively to kind a spot for a bunch of individuals to name dwelling.
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