Geography

Saturday, 2 May 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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Sahara desert
The most domesticated animals in the Sahara are camels and goats.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro is a volcanic peak that is not extinct, but dormant.
The volcano last erupted in the 1940s. The largest eruption took place three hundred and sixty thousand years ago and destroyed everything within a radius of many kilometers.
Mount Elbrus
Elbrus is covered by twenty-two glaciers.
Some of them are 400 meters thick. Glaciers on Elbrus give rise to the Baksan, Kuban and Malka rivers.
Mount Pinatubo
Mt. Pinatubo was the name of the C-47 presidential plane that crashed in 1957.
Mt. Pinatubo crashed into Mount Manunggal, killing president Ramon Magsaysay along with 24 people aboard.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado, also known as Nevada Ojos del Salado, is a dormant volcano.
It is located in the Central Andes on the Chilean-Argentinean border.
Pamukkale
Pamukkale is a town in southwestern Turkey.
It lies in the valley of the Meander River, near the ancient archaeological site of Laodicea on the ...
Mount Etna
The fertile volcanic soils around Etna favor extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards stretching across the lower slopes of the mountain and the plain of Catania to the south.
The vineyards there cover an area of about 2,900 hectares. There are also olive, citrus and fig groves. The Greeks had vineyards in this area as early as the 6th century BC.
Santorini
One of the most famous places in Santorini is Akrotiri, called "Greek Pompeii."
It was an extremely developed Minoan city, which, like Pompeii in Italy, suffered greatly from the v ...
Lake Tanganyika
Is one of the oldest lakes in the world.
The only older one is Lake Baikal, which at 25 million years old is about twice as old.
Amazon River
It flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
The mouth of the river is located in Brazil, but its exact location is difficult to determine due to ...