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Cross the border

YOUR MISSION

Walk (or drive or cycle) between one neighborhood and the next. When do you know that you’ve definitely moved from one to the other?

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Mission ID: 3105
Tags: border borders boundary boundaries area areas neighborhood neighbourhood community National Geographic Geography Awareness Week

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Completed: 90

How do you know? Produce a guide for people who are unfamiliar with the local area that will help them to ‘identify’ the local neighborhoods.

Tips: Sometimes boundaries are obvious, and marked by something hard like a wall, at other times they are ‘soft’. Listen for changes in accent, look out for changes in shop type, feel for waves of emotion and sniff for shifts in smell. Remember that the boundary might be quite wide and it could take you some time to realize that you are somewhere ‘new’.

Geography: All places are divided by borders or boundaries, but these are not always visible. Sometimes people are uncomfortable when they visit somewhere unfamiliar: explorers need to overcome those fears. Geographers are interested in the relationships, differences and similarities between boundaries and places.

BONUS QUESTION

The fence pictured on this page is on the border of the U.S. and what other country? Tip: Visit this website to find out.

Move carefully, and take note of local rules. Remember that visitors to a place should be respectful and observant. Get permission and do this mission in a team (3 is a magic number).

Risk overall: Medium. Keep your wits about you, anything could happen.

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