Amazing or Hard to Believe Geographic Facts

[Lady Jane]

Another oldie: https://www.seansbar.ie/

[Lady Jane]

Sometimes, the brain keeps you awake with trivia and you just have to get up and fact check the answer...

[vreihen16]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/48°52'36.0"S+123°23'36.0"W/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_o...naccessibility


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[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Point Nemo .

Another link:

https://x3.xbimmers.com/forums/showp...5&postcount=35

[Lady Jane]

[Lady Jane]

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

***The caption is misleading as the island is obviously not in Tokyo but part of a chain of islands south of the city. ***

[Vindicator3]

What a 5000 km circle around Paris looks like in the Mercator projection:

https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/c...ing/?rdt=42593

[M-technik-3]

Interesting and I lived in Japan and never even heard of the place. Granted I lived in Northern Japan.

[Vindicator3]

The longest straight-line land journey possible on Earth is between (near) Sagres, Portugal and (near) Jinjiang, China.

The longest straight-line sea journey possible on Earth is between Sonmiani, Pakistan and a point in Karaginsky District, Russia (Kamchatka).

Of course, neither journey appears straight on a standard-projection 2d map.

https://www.technologyreview.com/201...thout-hitting/

[Vindicator3]

The rarest time zone on Earth (both by land mass using it and by population using it) is UTC-12:00, the time zone that ends every day on the calendar (aka the last to ring in every new year). It has several inhabited islands within its standard boundaries, but each of those islands chooses to use a different time zone. This leaves two uninhabited islands, Howland and Baker Islands in the South Pacific, as the only land masses to use the zone.

https://magazine.tagheuer.com/en/202...ne-on-earth-2/

[freakystyly]

Catatumbo lightning (Spanish: Relámpago del Catatumbo)[1] is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Catatumbo means "House of Thunder" in the language of the Bari people.[2] It originates from a mass of storm clouds at an altitude of more than 1 km (0.6 mi), and occurs for 140 to 160 nights a year, nine hours per day, and with lightning flashes from 16 to 40 times per minute.[3] It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over a bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.[4] The phenomenon sees the highest density of lightning in the world, at 250 per km2.[5] In summers, the phenomenon may even occur as dry lightning without rainfall.[6]

The lightning changes its flash frequency throughout the year, and it is different from year to year. For example, it ceased from January to March 2010, apparently due to drought, leading to speculation that it might have been extinguished permanently.

Copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning