Geography

It all started with a gold rush, but Montana is also the only producer of platinum and palladium and a significant copper, silver, and gemstones manufacturer.

Only a few species occur in the boreal forest, including the Striped garter, Siberian salamander, Wood frog, American and Canadian toad, and others. Most of these hibernate underground in winter.

There is a theory that these statues served the cult of the bird god (Tangata manu) that developed o ...

The last time 95% of the lake's surface was frozen occurred in 2014. Such a lush ice cover on a lake happens on average about once every 15 years.

Thanks to the fact that the river flooded every year and deposited layers of fertile silt on the sur ...

It provides over 80% of the inflowing water. Overall, 130 rivers flow into the Caspian Sea.

This was probably the largest volcanic eruption in the last several hundred million years. The substrate over which Iguazu flows is basalt.

Almost 70 percent of the country's land area is covered by forests, most of which are managed and regulated by the state. Virgin forests occur only in the northernmost mountain regions.

Moreover temperatures can change rapidly of as much as  35 °C (63 °F) within 24 hours.

The two most spectacular are the Tower Bridge, and the London Millennium Footbridge.