Geography

Saturday, 24 October 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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Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Archipelago is one of the most active volcanic areas in the world.
The islands that comprise it were formed by volcanic activity associated with the existence of the G ...
Colorado
Colorado is moderately seismically active.
Despite its mountainous terrain, earthquakes are not frequent, and if they do occur, they are of low ...
Asia
As many as 25 Nobel Prize winners are from Japan.
The last Nobel Prize in chemistry went to Akira Yoshino in 2019. Another Asian country with a large number of Nobel laureates is India, with 13 laureates.
River Thames
It may be as old as 58 million years.
Easter Island
Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean with three groups of islands at its tips: Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand. The term is often used to define Polynesia.
Caspian Sea
Its maximum depth is 1,025 meters, which places it in third place in terms of maximum depth, right after Baikal (1,637 m) and Tanganyika (1,435 m).
Lake Baikal
In the Baikal lake, there is the Baikal seal, the only completely freshwater seal in the world.
Gobi Desert
The Gobi is inhabited by migratory peoples engaged in cattle ranching.
Nile river
As early as the Stone Age, people were settling in the Nile Valley.
The largest population center was north of present-day Aswan. Ancient Egyptians sang a hymn to the Nile, thanking the river for being and bestowing wealth on their country.
Easter Island
Easter Island is formed by three conglomerated extinct volcanoes: Terevaka, Poike and Rano Kau.
Terevaka makes up most of the island, while Poike and Rano Kau form the eastern and southern capes a ...