Geography

Monday, 19 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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Lake Superior
The Lake Superior Basin area is home to 58 native orchid species.
Most orchids grow in the wetlands, marshes and swamps, a habitat where we would not expect to find them, but native orchids have adapted to this harsh weather and acidic and sandy soils.
Mount Vesuvius
Although the catastrophe at Pompeii was quite remote in time, eyewitness accounts of the destruction have survived to our times.
These accounts are contained in letters written by Pliny the Younger to Publius Cornelius Tacitus, a ...
Death Valley
The Death Valley area abounds with many places of interest.
These are mainly located within Death Valley National Park and include: Aguereberry Point - a promo ...
Atacama Desert
The terrain of the Atacama Desert resembles a Martian landscape.
The Atacama Desert and the McMurdo Dry Valleys (a snow-free valley in Antarctica, one of the driest ...
Lake Malawi
The lake mirror is located at 468 m above sea level.
Amazon River
Beneath the Amazon River flows another - the Hamza River.
Hamza is about 6000 km long aquifer that flows at a depth of about 4 km and enters the Atlantic Ocea ...
Easter Island
A macrolide antibiotic used in modern medicine was first isolated in 1975 from Streptomyces hygroscopicus bacteria from a soil sample taken on Easter Island.
The drug called Sirolimus (rapamycin) is an immunosuppressant used in transplantation. Rapamycin is ...
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is notorious for hurricanes.
The Gulf is both warmer and shallower than the Atlantic Ocean, which prevents cooling off the surfac ...
Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo is made of dacite and andesite.
Bermuda Triangle
The last reports of alleged Bermuda Triangle activity date back to the early 1970s.
New technologies have emerged; new, better and more advanced navigation instruments, and pilots and ...