Geography

Tuesday, 11 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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Lake Superior
It is also a deep one.
The lake's average depth is 147 m (483 ft), with the lake's deepest point at 406m (1,333 ft).
Asia
The largest country in Asia is Russia, and the most populated is China.
With a surface area of 17 075 400 km² (6 592 849 sq mi), Russia is also the world's largest country. Estimated population of China is 1,400,050,000.
Lake Tanganyika
It is the second oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second largest by volume, and the second deepest.
It is about the same size as the state of Maryland and two times smaller than Lake Huron.
Easter Island
The Rapa Nui National Park is home to moai stone statues - the most notable achievement of the Polynesian people of Easter Island.
There are 887 stone statues called moai erected on ahu stone platforms. Most of them were carved in ...
Pamukkale
Pamukkale thermal water has healthy and perhaps beautifying properties.
It was already appreciated by the Romans, who, in addition to its health properties, recognized its ...
Death Valley
There have been at least four periods of active volcanism in Death Valley in the past.
There were also three or four periods of sedimentation and plate tectonic shifts. The area has been glaciated at least twice.
Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert is divided into 5 distinct ecological regions, ranging from harsh desert through steppe to lake valley.
Tropical rainforests
Due to abundant and frequent rainfall, the soils of equatorial forests are often washed out.
This makes them less fertile, but there are areas of fertile soil, mostly volcanic.
Easter Island
Heyerdahl experimentally proved in 1947 the feasibility of sailing from South America to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki raft.
According to legend, the "long-eared" people, who constituted the aristocracy, were almost completel ...
Cappadocia
Images of saints also adorn the walls of Karanlik Church, where, in addition to the paintings, one can find, according to tradition, the footprint of Christ's sandals carved into the rock.