Palm trees grow in Ireland, at 53 degrees north. In Canada at 55 degrees north there are polar bears
There are 14 mountains over the height of 8000 metres. All of them are in Asia
Australia is wider than the moon
My parents in Canada live closer to me in England than they do to my in-laws in Canada
Despite Canada being the US’s “neighbor to the north”, the majority of Canadians live south of Seattle
Not Earth’s geography but Mars’. Olympus Mons (volcano on Mars) is so big that it curves with the curvature of Mars itself to an extent that you cannot see the peak of the volcano if you would stand at the base of it
When I worked for FedEx back in the 90’s one of the reasons why they chose Anchorage as a global hub (apart from the fact that aircraft use less fuel due to it being cooler) was that it is one of the only places in the world that is within 10 hours of the three biggest global markets; North America, Europe and Asia!
If you took a boat out of Reykjavík and sailed directly south, the first land mass you’d hit would be Antarctica.
Point Nemo is the loneliest point away from any other land (2,688 km away of any other)
The closest people are the ones at the ISS
Rubies and Sapphires are in fact, the same mineral, and both of them, as well as Emeralds, are actually rarer than Diamonds.
Edit: I just now realize this said Geography and not Geology oh goodness.
Depending on where you are, you might have recently noticed a lot of dust from Africa coating your town.
But dust from the Sahara regularly makes it’s way to the Amazon. In fact, without that dust, the Amazon might not even exist. The soil there is pretty nutrient poor, and that dust acts as a form of fertiliser. Two massive but opposing geological features – one full of life, the other very sparse – yet very strongly connected
America and Canada share the longest demilitarized border in the world
Texas is large enough that I could fit Copenhagen, Brussels, Zagreb, and Warsaw with their real life distances from each other inside the State lines
Not sure it applies but the meteor that brought an end to the dinosaurs was so massive that the crater actually started forming itself before it even touched ground, due to the unbelievable air pressure
Edit: this definitely does not apply as I read geology, and not geography, I’m an idiot
Reno, NV is farther west than Los Angeles, CA
The Appalachian mountain range formed before the North American continent broke away from Europe, so there’s a little chunk of the Appalachians in France
Antarctica is the world’s largest desert, since it doesn’t get all that much rainfall. Also, if you put a cherry on top of it, Antarctica is the world’s largest dessert.
Maine is the closest point in the US to Africa
California is the closest state to Hawaii , but Hawaii is the farthest state from California
There is actually a tiny strip of New Mexico that is directly north of the Texas panhandle, contrary to the level of detail that many maps can show
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