Anecumens
As Anökumene which are not permanently habitable due to extreme physical and climatic conditions are wilderness areas of the earth's surface called. These are the vegetation-free parts of the desert , the polar regions or the summit regions of the high mountains . This includes just over 10 percent of the earth's land surface.
Examples are the Antarctic , the salt deserts of the Chilean Andes , the cold deserts of northern Canada and Siberia and large parts of the Sahara and Tibet .
The term is usually used in the context of geosciences - especially in settlement geography - on the global scale .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The area share was determined and extensively verified when the area-based map Ökumene-Subökumene-Anökumene.png was created . See sources there.
- ↑ Keyword: anecumens . In: Lexicon of Geography on Spektrum.de, accessed on October 31, 2014.