RISK The Series: Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and
Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in
opposition to Far East.
Seen from the air, the Middle East is a forbidding landscape.
Most of the area is hot and dry. Life is only possible where
rainfall is adequate or where water has become available through
irrigation from rivers, dams or wells. Territorial size without
adequate water is of little value to most Middle Eastern states,
except where it increases the area for potential oil drilling. The
soils of the more desertified areas of the region are quite poor,
which results both from the lack of precipitation and consequent
lack of plant growth. The best soils are the alluvial soils of
Mesopotamia and the Nile valley.
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have a thin coastal zone backed by
dry mountain ranges (Atlas and others) parallel to the water. South
of that is the Sahara Desert. Egypt is mostly desert (Libyan in the
west, Nubian in the south), cut by the northern flowing Nile.
Nearly all its people live in the narrow alluvial strip along the
river. A mountain range runs northward from Yemen, through western
Arabia into Jordan, ending up in Turkey. Another small range starts
in the Sinai Peninsula, traversing Israel into western Lebanon.
Between these ranges, lies a deep depression that includes the Dead
Sea and Galilee. Most of Turkey is a ring of mountains (Taurus in
south, Pontic in north) surrounding a central plain. Toward its
east the mountains get higher, splitting into a range that runs
across the top of Iran to Afghanistan (the Elburz) and one that
ones down the western side of Iran nearly to Pakistan (the Zagros).
The Iranian Plateau, a high, dry desert, occupies the center of
that country, continuing into western Afghanistan. The mountains in
Afghanistan rise irregularly into the Hindu Kush and Pamirs as we
go east and north. The most northerly parts of Turkey and Iran have
a more moderate climate than most of the region. There are areas
with heavy rainfall and almost tropical vegetation south of both
the Black and Caspian Seas. Lands with comfortable climate for
human habitation is found in a relatively narrow strip that begins
in the Dardanelles, runs down the seaward slope of Turkey’s
Taurus Mountains and then swings south to follow the Lebanon
mountains into Israel. Here the mountains catch adequate
precipitation and temperatures are moderated by the sea.
In the rest of the Middle East, only where mountains catch a few
clouds is there enough precipitation and low enough temperatures
for agriculture without irrigation. Most of Iraq is flat and dry.
Its life is dependent on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowing
from the mountains that ring it. Before the discovery of oil, no
one could have pictured it as the Cradle of Civilization.
Most of the Middle East has a Mediterranean climate with the
precipitation coming in winters followed by hot dry summers. In
Yemen and Oman, however, this regime is replaced by one dependent
on the monsoon seasons that characterize Africa further south and
India.
On this cache you are
looking for a small camoed rx container that should be easy to
find.
REMEMBER NOT ALL
CACAHES HAVE COORDINATES TO THE OTHER CACHES. ONLY CERTAIN CACHES
HAVE THEM. PLEASE DO NOT PUT IN YOUR LOGS IF YOU HAVE FOUND OR
HAVEN’T FOUND COORDS. THOSES ENTRIES WILL BE DELETED AND YOU
WILL BE FORCED TO RELOG THEM. PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR SEARCH AROUND
THE WORLD FOR THEM.
**** Keep in mind that you are looking for
partial coordinates to RISK The Series: Secret Mission #1, #2, #3
and full coordinates to RISK The Series: Capture the Flag. PLEASE
DO NOT MOVE COORDINATES FROM CACHE.
One Territory out of each country will give
you 1 part of the coordinates. For example a North American
territory may give you N 00 00.000 for Secret Mission #? and an
Asian territory may give you W 00 00.000 for the same mission. It
will look like this when you find the code.
Risk The Series: Secret Mission #1 N 00
00.000
Or
Risk The Series: Secret Mission #1 W 000
00.000
Put the coordinates that you found for the
matching missions together to find the location of that
Mission.
****To find “RISK The Series: Capture
the Flag” you must First find a territory that has the
Coordinates to the final to capture the flag, Each territory can be
found by putting in “RISK The Series”. For a specific
territory add the territory name, for example: “RISK The
Series: Eastern United States”.