Why Maine's Geography is More Extreme Than Expected
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What if I told you that the closest US state to Africa isn't Florida, but one located in the far North? Or that despite being 1/5th the size of California, this state actually has more coastline? Welcome to Maine, a place often seen as just a vacationland for lobsters and lighthouses, but is actually a geographic outlier of extreme tides, vast forests, and lonely borders.
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Chapters:
0:00 - More Than a Vacationland
0:26 - Closest State to Africa
1:14 - More Coastline than California
2:10 - The Old Sow Whirlpool
2:59 - The Most Forested State
3:44 - A Glacial Desert
4:37 - Sponsored By Flexispot
5:55 - Predating Plymouth Rock
6:40 - The First Eastern National Park
7:27 - Born from Compromise
8:08 - The First Sawmill
8:52 - The Aroostook War
9:37 - The Only One-Syllable State
10:16 - The Lonely Border
10:59 - The Empty Quarter
11:42 - America’s Sunrise
12:24 - The Blueberry Capital
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