Geography

Thursday, 11 December 2025
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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Cotopaxi volcano
The Cotopaxi volcano has erupted 87 times.
It has been active for over four thousand years. The strongest eruption took place at the turn of 15 ...
Sahara desert
Lake Chad, located in the Sahara Desert, is the most important source of water for people, animals and plants.
Its water is used by about 30 million people. It is the largest non-tidal lake in Central Africa. In the last 50 years, the lake has lost most of its water due to climate change and human activities.
Caspian Sea
It is described as the world’s largest lake.
However, it is not a freshwater body, but due to 1,2% salinity puts it among the brackish water bodies.
Galapagos Islands
In 1944, Ecuador established another prison on Isabela, where about 300 prisoners were held in harsh conditions.
As a result of the mutiny and harsh living conditions, both prisoners and guards died, and Ecuadorian authorities closed the prison.
Victoria Falls
The waterfall is 1.7 kilometers wide. It consists of three parts: the main, eastern, and rainbow sections.
Tropical rainforests
Tropical rainforests are being continuously degraded by human activities.
Among the most dangerous and harmful factors leading to the destruction of these areas are: Deforestation for farmland or timber harvesting Mining Climate change
Amazon River
Whether the Amazon is the longest river on earth is still a matter of debate.
It may be longer or shorter than the Nile, depending on the measurement criteria used. It's length may be anywhere between 6,275 and 6,992 km, while Nile is estimated to be between 5,499 and 7,088 km.
Mount Etna
Starting in February 2021, Etna began a series of explosive eruptions that affected nearby villages and towns, with volcanic ash and rocks falling as far away as Catania.
By March 12, 2021, the volcano had erupted 11 times in three weeks. The eruptions have thrown clouds ...
Bermuda Triangle
People who accept the Bermuda Triangle as a natural phenomenon look to the paranormal for its explanation.
One theory is related to a mythical land called Atlantis. The technology that was used on this conti ...
Nan Madol
One of the Oceania researchers, who was the first to describe Nan Madol  at the end of the 19th century was the Polish ethnographer Jan Kubary.
On the basis of oral stories of islanders who still remembered the names of individual islets of Nan Madol, German ethnographer and archaeologist Paul Hambruch in 1910 made a map of the islets.