Amazing or Hard to Believe Geographic Facts

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Yang Yuan Stone and the Yin Yuan Stone in the scenic mountainous area of Mount Danxia in Renhua County, in the northern part of Guangdong province.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Danxia

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There's something that seems odd about the Yin Yuan Stone but I can't quite put my finger on it.

[Llarry]

A elevation profile of the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River.

[Lady Jane]

[Lady Jane]

The Cave of Crystals in Naica Mexico.

https://www.geologyin.com/2014/11/th...ca-mexico.html

[Llarry]

Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, is the world's deepest lake with a depth of 1,642 meters (5,387 feet) and contains about 20 percent of the world's unfrozen fresh water. The lake's total volume is over 23,500 cubic kilometers, which is more than all of North America's Great Lakes combined.

Lake Baikal was formed in a rift valley which then filled up with fresh water.

[moooza]

There is a 21km difference in the radius of the earth at the equator, vs the poles. The spin of the Earth causes it to bulge at the equator.

[Lady Jane]

Everyone knows about the Mariana Trench (36,197 Ft.) but what about the Tonga Trench, a close second at 35,702 Ft.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...the-world.html

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Everyone knows about the Mariana Trench (36,197 Ft.) but what about the Tonga Trench, a close second at 35,702 Ft.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...the-world.html


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AKA - Silver Medal Trench

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

AKA - Silver Medal Trench

The best lovers are silver medalists. Why, you asked?

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

The best lovers are silver medalists. Why, you asked?

"If you're not first, you're last." -Ricky Bobby

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

"If you're not first, you're last." -Ricky Bobby

"Second place is just the first loser." - Darrell Waltrip, I believe.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

The best lovers are silver medalists. Why, you asked?

Okay, I'll bite*. Why?



*not too hard

[moooza]

Because they are used to coming second?

68 is better

[Lady Jane]

The Elephant Foot Glacier in Greenland.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

The Elephant Foot Glacier in Greenland.


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Looks like a manatee "tail."

[Lady Jane]

The Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_of_Ur

Before excavation in 1929 and the present day.

[domacuratl]

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-a7639101.html

[2000cs]

Originally Posted by domacuratl

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-a7639101.html

I was taught to look at the longitude and lattitude lines before comparing areas of projections around the Mercator map.

We also always had a globe in the classroom (especially geography class), and often at home.

I don’t mind a different perspective, in fact I encourage that, but map reading skills are somewhat more involved than looking at a picture.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by domacuratl

us schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion

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[Lady Jane]

One of the biggest salt mines in the world located in Romania.

https://news156media.com/unirea-salt...-need-to-know/

[Buug959]

There is one acre of US soil in England and it has nothing to do with any embassy. It is for the JFK Memorial in Runnymede.

[Lady Jane]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishiyama_Onsen_Keiunkan