Geographical and Natural Phenomena Trivia

• The distance between the middle of Australia and the middle of New Zealand is 2,583.3 miles.

• Australia is bigger than New Zealand in terms of diameter.

• Submarine volcanoes continue to be active and even erupt like they do above water.

• Iguanas are not one of Florida's native reptiles.

• The production of pineapples was one of the results of Hawaii becoming a colony of the U.S.

• Hawaii and Alaska produce a significant amount of pineapples, which has led to the misconception that the fruit is native to the state.

• In November 2018, Alaska suffered a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that shook Anchorage to the core.

• California is famous for its earthquakes, but Alaska is actually the U.S. state that suffers the most from the natural disaster.

• Though most penguin species live farther south, Humboldt penguins can be found fairly north along the coast of Peru. They also reside in Chile.

• You will only find them in the wild in Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway and Russia.

• Few people in this world will ever get to see the almost mythical narwhal.

• The cuddly-looking but very aggressive species resides within the Arctic Circle. This means that you'll find them only in five countries: Norway, Russia, Canada, Denmark and the U.S.

• Roe River is a mere 201-feet long. It's so short that we have to use feet instead of miles to talk about it.

• Montana is a state full of wide spaces and tall mountains. But despite the colossal size of much of its nature, it also has the shortest river in the world.

• Queen Elizabeth appears on Canadian and Australian money.

• However, if you took away Hawaii and Alaska, Brazil would actually come out on top, covering a large part of Canada as well.

• Since a desert is defined as a dry area with low vegetation, Antarctica fits the bill — even if it looks different from what we usually imagine as a desert.

• The tree stood tall thousands of years before Jesus was born and is still alive and well.

• Bethlehem, Palestine, is home to the al-Badawi tree.

• The 49th parallel is the boundary between the United States and Canada.

• Half of Canadians live in the small part of the territory below the 49th parallel.

• The Sands Marina Bay Hotel in Singapore has an open-air swimming pool on the 57th floor.

• The Burj Khalifa, built in 2008, towers above the city at 2,717 feet.

• The Newby-McMahon Building, built in 1919, is 40-feet tall and goes by the nickname "the world's littlest skyscraper."

• The Port of Antwerp's Kieldrecht Lock is 1,600 feet long.

• The Panama Canal may be the most famous of locks to help ships cross between the Atlantic and the Pacific, but the world's longest lock is actually in Belgium.

• The world's longest bridge and tunnel collaboration is the 34.2-mile Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.

• The longest bridge continuously running across water can be found in Louisiana.

• Brazil is the country with the most animals, with 383 of them.

• The oldest mountains are in South Africa and are 3.5 billion years old.

• There are about 4,000 orchid species in the world.

• North of Brazil, Colombia has (slightly) more species of birds than its larger neighbor.

• There are 20 deaths per year due to horse-related injuries in Australia.

• Between 2000 and 2010, 254 deaths were caused by animals. Seventy-seven resulted (mostly) from falls off of horses, 33 from cattle (including from people crushing, piercing and crashing into the animals while in a car), and 27 by dog attacks.

• Australia does have terrifying animals that could kill you — spiders, sharks and poisonous snakes among them. However, more deaths in Australia are caused by horses (ponies and donkeys included), followed by cows and dogs.

• The Madeira archipelago is closer to Africa than to Europe, while the Azores archipelago is closer to North America. This makes Portugal a tri-continental country.

• Portugal, located in western Europe, has two collections of land that place it on three different continents.

• When it comes to the sunniest place to be, the United States gets the honor. Yuma, Arizona averages more than 4,000 sunlight hours per year — 11 hours a day during the winter, and 13 hours on summer days.

• For the most snow, head to Japan's Aomori. The Sea of Japan contributes to its winter precipitation, giving the mountain city an annual snowfall of more than 312 inches.

• At the bottom of the globe, Dry Valleys in Antarctica has not had a single drop of rain or snow in nearly 2 million years! Scientists attribute this to the earth's gravitational pull.

• Mawsynram is the wettest place on earth. The northeastern village receives, on average, 724 inches of rain each year.

• Dallol, Ethiopia, the hottest inhabited place on the planet.

• But it's not always this cold. Normal winter temperatures average a relatively balmy -58 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Russia is home to the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth, too. (Antarctica's residents are not living in permanent towns, in case you were wondering.)

• The Alps may be more famous, but the highest peak in Europe is actually in Russia. Its height? 18,510 meters.

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