Geography

Sunday, 23 August 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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Manhattan
Manhattan has the highest per capita income of any country in the United States.
It is one of the world’s leading centers for banking, finance, and communications. The New York Stoc ...
Stromboli volcano
There are three active volcanic craters on top of Mount Stromboli.
The eruptions of the upper craters are usually brief but violent. They usually eject lava, ash, and cinders several hundred meters above the cone.
Martinique
Martinique is the most remote region of the European Union.
It is a single territorial collectivity of the French Republic. The island's inhabitants are French ...
Mount St. Helens
The deadliest and economically most destructive eruption occurred on May 18th, 1980.
It took the lives of 57 people and destroyed homes, bridges, roads, and railroads. The eruption lowe ...
Gulf of Mexico
Due to the high pollution of the Gulf, partially associated with oil spills, many species previously found in the Gulf have now become extinct.
Krakatoa
The final blast of the 1883 eruption generated a force 10,000 times stronger than the one generated by the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima in 1945.
Mount Tambora
The global temperature within the next few years dropped by 0.4—0.7 degrees Celsius.
Atacama Desert
The desert is sandy and rocky.
Most of the desert consists of rocky terrain, salt lakes, sand and lava flows toward the Andes.
Galapagos Islands
Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands in 1835.
Darwin arrived in the Galapagos in September 1835 aboard the ship HMS Beagle and stayed there for fi ...
River Thames
There are over 200 bridges on the River Thames.
The two most spectacular are the Tower Bridge, and the London Millennium Footbridge.