Geography

In addition to moai, there is a particular type of statue - takuturi.

Groups of volunteers search the forest.

The Amazon River was first discovered by Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón.

The earliest records of Cappadocia date back to the second half of the 6th century B.C. At that time, it was the property of two Achaemenid kings of Persia - Darius the Great and Xerxes I.

Manhattan is historically part of the Lenapehoking (Lenape homeland) territory, inhabited by the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger tribes.

The temperature range in the Gobi desert is quite large. In summer temperatures here can exceed 40 °C (104 °F)  and in winter fall below -40 °C (-40 °F).

The amount of ash dispersed during the eruption covered South East Asia in darkness for seven days.

The first steamboat to ply the lake's waters was the Independence in October 1845.

It's a land of over 3200 lakes.

Although the catastrophe at Pompeii was quite remote in time, eyewitness accounts of the destruction have survived to our times.