Tag Archives: Geography
Saudi Arabia is the only country without any permanent rivers or lakes. The nation relies on wadis…
Alaska is so vast and sparsely populated that its population density is roughly equivalent to having…
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Pekin in Illinois
France has two islands east of Canada…
St. Pierre and Miquelon is a territorial collectivity…
The Carribean nation of St. Lucia…
There’s two islands (Big Diomede…
There’s two islands (Big Diomede & Little Diomede) in the Bering Strait which are only 2.4 mi (3.8 km) apart but separated by the International Date Line, causing a 21 hour time difference. They were nicknamed Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Island. The big island is Russian and the little island is American. The post There’s… Read More »
New Zealand is not part of of any…
In 1921 a Danish geologist discovered…
In 1921 a Danish geologist discovered a tiny island on the northern coast of Greenland and named it “Kaffeklubben Island” after an informal academic club held at the Copenhagen Mineralogical Museum. He didn’t know that he had just named the northernmost point of land on Earth after a coffee club. The post In 1921 a… Read More »