Geography

Sunday, 16 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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Negev
Ben Gurion University, founded in 1969, is located in Beersheba.
It is one of the fastest-growing universities in Israel. Its activities are focused on promoting the ...
Martinique
Martinique was repeatedly attacked and occupied by the British.
Britain controlled the island for most of the time from 1794 to 1815, when it was sold to France aft ...
Manhattan
Manhattan is the center of LGBT culture.
The district is widely recognized as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
Aokigahara
Aokigahara has a bad reputation as a suicide forest.
The forest gained such a reputation in the 1960s, and the place was popularized by Seichō Matsumoto ...
Atacama Desert
Around 1900, there was an irrigation system of puquios in the desert oases.
Puquios (spring, well) are ancient underground aqueduct systems that allow water to be transported l ...
Greenland
Near the town of IIuIissat is a fjord that was listed by UNESCO in 2004.
At the mouth of the fjord is the world's fastest moving glacier, Sermeq Qujalleg.
Gobi Desert
The Gobi is one of the most abundant Late Cretaceous paleontological sites in the world.
Fossils of the first mammals can also be found here.
Manhattan
Manhattan is a global center for training and education in medicine and life sciences.
It is home to the New York Public Library, which has the largest book collection of any public libra ...
Bermuda Triangle
Bay currents, violent weather, giant waves, and human error (difficult navigation in the open sea) were also considered to explain the phenomena in the Bermuda Triangle.
Human error was one of the most frequently cited explanations in official investigations.
Lake Malawi
A "battle" took place at Lake Malawi, where on August 16, 1914, the command British Captain Rhoades was ordered to "sink, burn, or destroy" the only boat of the German Empire stationed on the lake.
Having found a moored German vessel near Sphinxhaven, he fired a single shot at it from a distance o ...