Proper within the middle of the island nation of Madagascar there’s an odd, nearly completely round geological construction. It covers a much bigger space than the town of Paris — and at first look, it appears to be like utterly empty. However proper within the middle of that construction, there’s a single, remoted village: just a few dozen homes, some fields of crops, and dust roads stretching out in each path.
Once we first noticed this village on Google Earth, its excessive remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of individuals? How did they wind up there? And what did life appear like in such a spot? To seek out out, we teamed up with an area crew in Madagascar and fell down a rabbit gap of geology and mapping alongside the best way. It’s a narrative of how continental shifts and volcanic geology got here collectively to kind a spot for a bunch of individuals to name house.
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