The Northern Sahara by YJ-L
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The Northern Sahara by YJ-L
Vintage Jeep AdventuresLast time we introduced you to Feature Editor Verne Simons’ lifelong pal, world explorer, adventurer, and geologist, Dr. Thomas Bown. We told you about and showed pictures of some of Tom’s US-based adventures from the ’60s and ’70s and hinted at his time spent in North Africa. Luckily for all of us Tom carried a camera on most of his adventures and frequently found himself bumping down a trail on the seat of a Jeep. In 1992 Dr. Bown led a small group to the Quatara Depression, a geological low area in northern Egypt west of Cairo in the Northeastern corner of the Sahara Desert. A depression sounds kind of sad, but really it’s scientifically interesting because it is an area of erosion of very old rocks important to understanding the history of one of the last explored areas of the earth. The Sahara stretches across northern Africa and is one of the world’s largest deserts at 3.6 million square miles. How about exploring a very small part of it in a long-wheelbase YJ Wrangler, the Egyptian military-spec YJ-L? Sounds good to us! Here is the story as told by Tom and a few pictures from his adventure.
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Vintage Jeep AdventuresLast time we introduced you to Feature Editor Verne Simons’ lifelong pal, world explorer, adventurer, and geologist, Dr. Thomas Bown. We told you about and showed pictures of some of Tom’s US-based adventures from the ’60s and ’70s and hinted at his time spent in North Africa. Luckily for all of us Tom carried a camera on most of his adventures and frequently found himself bumping down a trail on the seat of a Jeep. In 1992 Dr. Bown led a small group to the Quatara Depression, a geological low area in northern Egypt west of Cairo in the Northeastern corner of the Sahara Desert. A depression sounds kind of sad, but really it’s scientifically interesting because it is an area of erosion of very old rocks important to understanding the history of one of the last explored areas of the earth. The Sahara stretches across northern Africa and is one of the world’s largest deserts at 3.6 million square miles. How about exploring a very small part of it in a long-wheelbase YJ Wrangler, the Egyptian military-spec YJ-L? Sounds good to us! Here is the story as told by Tom and a few pictures from his adventure.
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