Atlas of Geographical Curiosities - Britain

Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country’s first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990. Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, and having travelled in over 70 countries, Vitali is the author of 15 books translated into many languages. He has worked as a journalist for some of the major English-language newspapers, and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow as well as a Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, but also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. Vitali lives with his partner Christine and Tashi, a furry Tibetan Terrier, in a small English town not far from London.

• 1 Britain’s forgotten rainforests – Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland2 The Centre of Britain – Lancashire - England3. Claridge's Hotel Suite 212 – London - England4 Ely Place – London - England5 Wolford Chapel – Devon - England6 Bishop Rock – Cornwall - England7 Sark – Channel islands8 The Square Mile of London – London - England9 Loch Ness – Scotland10 Poole Harbour – Dorset - England11 Dungeness – Kent - England12 Fordwich – Kent - England13 The island of Foula - Scotland14 Four Shire Stone – Oxfordshire - England15 Holme Fen – Cambridgeshire - England16 Kielder Forest - Northumberland - England 17 The drystone dyke of the England-Scotland border18 Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) - Northumberland - England19 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch – Wales20 Middlesex county - England21 Parliament Street in Exeter, Devon - England22 The Oldest Greenwich meridian markers - Hertfordshire - England23 John F. Kennedy memorial – England24 Soay, Inner Hebrides - Scotland25 The Isle of Man – Irish Sea26 Wells – Somerset – England27 The serpentine mineral veins of Great Britain - Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland28 The Giant’s Causeway - Northern Ireland29 Cromer Shoals Chalk Bed - Norfolk - England30 The Severn Bore - England / Wales31 Pitcairn Island – Pacific Ocean 32 The French domains of Saint Helena – Atlantic Ocean33 Tristan da Cunha – Indian Ocean34 Camp Zeist – Netherlands35 Akrotiri and Dhekelia - Great Britain/Cyprus