Geography

Saturday, 17 January 2026
16 facts about Hawaii
16 facts about Hawaii
Volcanic paradise
This picturesque archipelago located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean owes its creation entirely to volcanic eruptions. Lush deciduous forests inter ...

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Mount Elbrus
It is a dormant stratovolcano.
Elbrus was formed about 2.5 million years ago and its period of most violent eruptions ended about 700,000 years ago. The last eruption took place around the year 50 AD.
Atacama Desert
Numerous telescopes have been installed there to allow astronomers from around the world to study the universe.
In October 2011, a radio astronomy telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, built by Eur ...
Cappadocia
Currently, no volcano in Cappadocia is active.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Unfortunately, the glacier on Kilimanjaro is melting; since 1912, 82% of the glacier has disappeared.
The area of the glacier at the beginning of the 20th century was about 12 square kilometers, now it ...
Galapagos Islands
The islands are prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
More than 50 volcanic eruptions have been recorded there since the beginning of the 19th century (in ...
Colorado
Colorado was the first state to legalize marijuana for medicinal, industrial, and recreational use.
As a medicinal drug, marijuana was legalized in 2000, and for industrial and recreational purposes i ...
Lake Baikal
The first European to visit Lake Baikal was Cossack, Kurbat Ivanov in 1643.
Montana
The world's most extensive collection of fossils from Hell Creek is on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman.
In 1998, Montana State University, the University of Washington, the University of California, Berke ...
Lake Tanganyika
The lake covers an area of 32,900 km² (12,700 sq mi).
Lake Tanganyika has a shoreline of 1,828km, almost as long as New York to Miami. The water surface o ...
Tropical rainforests
The emergent and canopy levels are very similar.
The difference is that the vegetation that covers it is 45 to 55 meters high, although there are spe ...