--- title: The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Kipling knew the world well. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / The map of the Just So Stories: from t… # The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey Lesson 61 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 12 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/1/) — Kipling knew the world well. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/2/) — He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India in 1865, went to school in England, and later lived in America and spent many winters in South Africa, so his animals wander across the whole globe. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/3/) — The Whale is sent to «latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West», which is a real address on the globe: 50 degrees north of the Equator and 40 degrees west of Greenwich, out in the cold North Atlantic between Ireland and Canada, far from any land. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/5/) — Latitude says how far north or south of the Equator a place is, and longitude says how far east or west of Greenwich in London; 50° North, 40° West is in the open North Atlantic, between Ireland and Canada, and Cornwall in south-west England lies at about 50° North, 5° West. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/7/) — The Rhinoceros lives by the Red Sea, the long, narrow sea between Africa and Arabia; Socotra, named in the story's poem, is an island of Yemen, north of the Equator, near Cape Guardafui, the very tip of the Horn of Africa, and it is famous for its strange umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/9/) — The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique; its banks really are lined with yellow-barked fever trees. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/11/) — Old Man Kangaroo is chased from the middle of Australia, mostly hot desert and dry grassland, past the Flinders and the Darling Downs; most Australians live near the coasts, where it rains more. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/12/) — The Armadillos' «turbid Amazon» is the Amazon in South America (turbid means muddy); it carries more water than any other river on Earth and flows through the biggest rainforest in the world. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/13/) — The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, by the Strait of Malacca, the short way for ships between the Indian Ocean and the seas of China, and one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/14/) — The First Letter and the Alphabet stories happen in Surrey, south of London, near Guildford and the River Wey, a small river that flows into the Thames. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/15/) — The Eldest Magician makes the Himalayas, the Sahara and the Everglades in a game, but really the Himalayas were pushed up as India crashed into Asia over about 50 million years, and India still pushes, so they still rise a little; the Sahara was green with lakes and grass from about 11,000 until about 5,000 years ago, and rock paintings there show swimmers and cattle. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/61-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey/16/) — The Everglades in Florida are a very wide, slow river of grass over flat land; Suleiman-bin-Daoud's story takes place in an imagined palace, and the real Queen of Sheba's land, Saba, was probably in Yemen. - ← previous: [Metals, mining and what they cost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/) - next →: [The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/62-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)