These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell signed an order officially changing the name of the 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) peak in Alaska ... National Geographic, will update all maps ...

An archaeologist who started working for Katmai National Park & Preserve two years earlier, Stelson was about to lead a four-week expedition, retracing historic routes by a National Geographic ...

Here’s everything you need to know about exploring the cities and vast wilderness ... (This author rediscovered his love for nature in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.) Hyperboreal, by ...