Geography

Thursday, 11 June 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 Tanganyika
The base of the lake is mostly Precambrian granite rocks and igneous rocks rich in magnesium, iron and aluminum.
Lake Malawi
The temperature of surface water is quite high and ranges from 24 to 29 °C. The temperature of deeper waters is about 22°C.
Nan Madol
Each island served different purpose.
Some prepared food, others built canoes or extracted coconut oil. One of the islands served as a roy ...
Gulf of Mexico
The basin is also suitable for a large number of mollusks that thrive along the coastline.
Most of the seafood consumed in both North and South America comes from the Gulf.
Asia
As many as 25 Nobel Prize winners are from Japan.
The last Nobel Prize in chemistry went to Akira Yoshino in 2019. Another Asian country with a large number of Nobel laureates is India, with 13 laureates.
Congo River
Over 75 million people live in the Congo Basin.
Cotopaxi volcano
Cotopaxi is home to one of the few equatorial glaciers in the world.
The boundary of eternal ice begins at an altitude of approximately 5000 m above sea level.
Iguazú Falls
The system of waterfalls that make up Iguazu Falls is located in Iguazu National Park, divided between Brazil and Argentina.
Together, the Brazilian and Argentine parts of the park cover an area of about 260.000 hectares. One ...
Crete
Crete is located on the so-called Aegean plate (a small tectonic plate located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea).
Since its inception, this plate has been pushing against the African plate, which covers Africa and ...
Colorado
The U.S. Route 34 (US 34) highway runs through the Rocky Mountain National Park.
It is known as Trail Ridge Road and is the third-highest (3,713 meters above sea level) paved highway in the United States.