Geography

Among the birds that lived there were parrots, herons, owls, rails, and seabirds: petrels and frigatebirds.

Most of the snow melts by mid-August, except for a few small glaciers.

According to carbon-dating analysis, some of the underwater exemplars can be approximately eight thousand years old. Studying those sunken trees may reveal many secrets of North American prehistory.

It is thanks to the oxidation of iron content on the surface.

Due to its enormous size and lack of many tributaries, the residence time of Tanganyka is about 5500 years.

Several small eruptions occurred prior to the deadly eruption in 1815.

Ergs are mostly covered with dunes, but there are also some where dunes are absent. Many of the dune ...

It is the largest freshwater fish in the world, famous for its caviar. The vast majority of its caviar consumed worldwide comes from the Caspian Sea.

It was also the first European vessel to sail the Great Lakes. To date, the wreck of Le Griffon, ref ...

In most of the world it is known as the Jordan River. The Arabs call it Nahr al Urdun, while its name in Hebrew is Nahar ha-Yarden.