Geography

Tuesday, 21 April 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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Paricutin volcano
The church has partially collapsed, with only two towers transcending above the solidified lava's surface.
The altar also survived because the flowing lava stopped right in front of it. This event was consid ...
Crete
In 69 BC, Crete was conquered by the Romans and established Gortyna as is capital.
In 395 Crete became part of the Byzantine Empire. From the 9th to the second half of the 10th centur ...
Mount Tambora
The April 10th eruption, more violent than the previous one, wiped out the village of Tambora.
The streams of lava erupting from the volcano were recorded by witnesses as "liquid fire".
Amazon River
It flows through three countries: Peru, Colombia, Brazil.
It is part of the border between Colombia and Perú. 
Galapagos Islands
The islands are located in an area called the Galapagos Triple Junction.
This is a geological area in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The junction is where the Pacific Plate (the largest tectonic plate on Earth), the Cocos Plate and the Nazca Plate meet.
Iguazú Falls
The Iguazu River, a left tributary of the Parana River, flows in southern Brazil and northern Argentina.
It is 1320 kilometers long and has 62.000 square kilometers of basin area. It flows from the coastal ...
Rio Grande
It was designated an American Heritage River in 1997.
Martinique
Martinique is an island, part of the Lesser Antilles - an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Lesser Antilles is part of the Antilles, a group of islands located in the Caribbean Sea, stretc ...
Greenland
The glacier that covers Greenland hides what is probably the world's longest canyon. It is more than 750 kilometers long.
It is not the deepest, although it reaches below sea level in places and is covered by a three-kilometer layer of ice.
Yangtze River
It flows through Tibet and 10 Chinese provinces.
They are Qinghai, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hubei, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, and Shanghai.