Geography

The Aokigahara Forest is called the Aokigahara Sea of Trees.

RedFox Elbrus Race. Starting from 2008, every year in June and September a series of running tournaments take place on Elbrus.

The year without summer inspired the British novelist Mary Shelley to write “Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus.”

The salinity of the Dead Sea at a depth of 50 meters is 360 grams of salt per liter of water.

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.

The Florida Reef is the only coral barrier in the continental U.S.

Elbrus is considered by climbers to be very dangerous.

Life in Lake Tanganyika occurs up to a depth of 200 meters.

Its area is 8336 square kilometers.

Krakatoa is best known for its 1883 eruption that killed over 36,000 people.