Geography

The youngest person to reach the summit is a six-year-old boy from USA.

The course of the river is mirrored by Great River Road.

During the last 300 million years, the majority of Uluru was formed by softer rocks eroding away.

It is 348 meters high above ground level, 863 meters above sea level, 3.6 kilometers long, and 1.9 kilometers wide, with a total circumference of 9.4 kilometers.

In 1951, American John Goddard and two French explorers were the first to swim the entire river successfully.

The area of the Gobi is approximately 1,295,000 km² (500,000 sq mi).

There are four trails to the summit, with rest stations along the way.

The Lake Superior Basin area is home to 58 native orchid species.

Thanks to the massively rising mist created by water falling from high altitudes, rainbows are a common sight here, which are visible even at night when the sunlight reflected from the moon is scattered in the misty clouds of the waterfall.

The year without summer inspired the British novelist Mary Shelley to write “Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus.”