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John Cary (c. 1754 – 1835) was an English cartographer.<br/><br/> Cary served his apprenticeship as an engraver in London, before setting up his own business in the Strand in 1783. He soon gained a reputation for his maps and globes, his atlas, The New and Correct English Atlas published in 1787, becoming a standard reference work in England.<br/><br/> In 1794 Cary was commissioned by the Postmaster General to survey England's roads. This resulted in Cary's New Itinerary (1798), a map of all the major roads in England and Wales. He also produced Ordnance Survey maps prior to 1805.<br/><br/> In his later life he collaborated on geological maps with the geologist William Smith. His business was eventually taken over by G. F. Cruchley (1822–1875).
Satellite image of the Red Sea area including (clockwise from top) part or all of the territories of Israel, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt.
A view from space of sand dunes in Rub' al Khali, ‘the Empty Quarter’ in Arabic, a vast and arid desert encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The image, acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard NASA's Terra satellite, shows dunes as brown with gray regions being the underlying gravel plains. The distance between parallel dunes, which can reach 330 metres (1,080 ft) in height, is roughly 1.5 to 2.5 km (0.9 to 1.6 miles). The area is neither inhabited nor traversed by humans, although some plants, arachnids, and rodents survive amid the harsh terrain.