Geography

The last volcanic activity of Mount Fuji was recorded in the 1960s.

The Negev is a desert and semi-arid region in southern Israel.

Along with its various tributaries, it forms the largest network of navigable waterways in Africa.

In winter, Baikal freezes and the ice cover can be up to 2 m thick.

The Yangtze River basin covers 1/5 of the land area of China.

In eastern Greenland, a Portuguese paleontologist has discovered the remains of a dinosaur that lived there more than 200 million years ago.

Lake Victoria and its wetlands support a large population of Nile crocodiles, mud turtles, including the Williams' mud turtle, a species endemic to Africa.

Mount St. Helens was continuously active until 2008.

The taiga in its present form has existed for the last 12,000 years, since the beginning of the Holocene epoch.

The earliest references to Crete come from texts of the Syrian city of Mari from the 18th century BC, where the island is referred to as Kaptara.