Geography

The 1815 eruptions dispersed 150 cubic kilometers of pumice, ash, and aerosols into the atmosphere.

The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Strait of Gibraltar.

The mountain has no significant ice cover.

A single hectare of tropical forest can contain 42,000 different species of insects, up to 807 trees of 313 species, and 1,500 species of land plants (Embryophyta).

The final blast of the 1883 eruption generated a force 10,000 times stronger than the one generated by the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima in 1945.

A "battle" took place at Lake Malawi, where on August 16, 1914, the command British Captain Rhoades was ordered to "sink, burn, or destroy" the only boat of the German Empire stationed on the lake.

The introduction of Nile perch into the lake ecosystem, eutrophication of the lake, and other changes have led to the extinction of at least 200 cichlid species in Lake Victoria.

The people of Easter Island speak the Rapa Nui language (Vananga Rapa Nui).

Approximately 300,000 people climb Mount Fuji every year.

The eastern, lower peak of the mountain was first climbed by a local mountaineer, Killar Khashirov, on July 22, 1829.