Geography

In 2003, a team of scientists applied the tests used by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 Martian landers to detect life in the Atacama region and failed to detect any signs of life in the desert soil in the Yungay region.

Mount Pinatubo was dormant for approximately 500 years prior to the climatic eruption in 1991.

The indigenous people of Greenland were once called Eskimo.

The top of the mountain has also been reached by car.

The River Thames is divided into tidal and non-tidal sections.

It is a part of the Murray-Darling basin.

In 1971, lava from the volcano destroyed the Etna Observatory, built at the end of the 19th century.

The first European to visit Lake Baikal was Cossack, Kurbat Ivanov in 1643.

The island is triangular in shape.

The lake is often used as a film background.