If you could visit any spot on Earth, where would you go?
What if you wanted to see some of the most amazing natural wonders in the world?
There are deserts that haven't seen rain for hundreds of years and jungles where it pours
almost every day.
There are places so cold that even in the summer it's below freezing and spots where it's
often hot enough to cook an egg on ther ground.
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There are mountains many miles high and ocean trenches that are even deeper.
You can find rivers thousands of miles long and waterfalls thousands of feet high.
Where are the very hottest and coldest, windiest and snowiest, highest and deepest places on
Earth ?
Travel the world and visit the planet's record holders.
The Nile, in Africa, is the longest river in the world.
It is 4,145 miles long.
The Amazon River, in South America, is not as long - 4,007 miles - but it is considered
mightier because it carries half of all the river water in the world.
The chiang jiang (Yangtze), in Asia (3,964 miles), and the Mississippi- Missouri ,
the other united States (3,710 miles ), are the world's third and fourth longest rivers.
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Lake Baikal, in Russia, is the world's oldest and deepest lake.
The lake was formed about 25 million years ago. In one spot it is
5,134 feet deep.
The largest freshwater lake in the world is Lake Superion, one of the Great Lakes in
North America (31,700 square miles) , but Lake Baikal (5,500 square miles) contains more
water than any other lake on Earth - more than all five Great lakes combined....
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Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
Its peak is 29,028 feet above sea level.
Mount Everest is considered the highest mountain - above sea
level - in the world, but it's not really the tallest.
Measured from its base on the floor of the ocean, Mauna kea, in
Hawaii, is 33,476 feet tall.
Only the top 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea are above sea level.
The hottest spot on the planet is Al Aziziyah, Libya,
in the Sahara, where a temperature of over 136 F has been
recorded.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States is 134.6 F,
in Death Valley, California.
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The coldest place on the planet is Vostok, Antarctica.
A temperature of 129 F below zero was recorded there.
It is so cold at the South Pole that the average summer temperature is -58F.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States is -80F, at Prospect Alaska.
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The wettest place on Earth is Tutunendo, Colombia, where an
average of 463 inches of rain falls every year.
Mount Wai-ale-ale, on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, has the most rainy days -
350 a year. On the island of La Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, more than 61
inches of rain fell in a single day.
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The driest place is the Atacama Desert, in Chile, where no rain
has fallen for the last 400 years.
Any place that receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year is considered a
desert. The driest place in the United States is Death Valley, California,
where only about 1and 1/2 inches of rain fall every year.
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The windiest spot on Earth is atop Mount Washington, in New
Hampshire.
A wind speed of 231 miles per hour has been recorded there.
It is also very windy near the tops of the world's highest mountains,
the Himalayas.
Many of these peaks are tall enough to reach the jet stream, a narrow, strong
air current that is found above 28,000 feet.
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The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls, in Venezuela. It is
3,212 feet high.
Angel falls is more than seventeen times higher than Niagara falls
(180 feet) in New York State. Victoria Falls, in Zimbabwe, Africa,
carries more water than any other waterfall.
It is 355 feet high.
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The deepest spot in the ocean is the Marianas trench, in the
Philippines. It is 36,202 feet deep.
The average depth of the world's oceans is about 3 miles, or
16000 feet.
The lowest spot on dry land is the shore of the Dead Sea, 1,100
feet below sea level.
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The world's most active volcano is Sangay, in Ecuador.
Since 1937 it has erupted once every 24 hours on average.
It once erupted more than 400 times in a single day.
Other very active volcanoes include Colima, in Mexico (it has
erupted regularly since 1560 );
Aso, in Japan (erupting since 533); and Mount Etna, in Italy
(erupting regularly since 1500 B.C).
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The most extreme tides occur in the Bay of Fundy, in Nova Scotia,
Canada. Therer the water level rises and falls more than 50 feet
every 6hours.
The tide here comes in so fast that it can overtake a person trying
to outrun it.
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The snowiest place on Earth is Mount Rainer, in Washington State.
One year, more than 1,200 inches of snow fell there.
Mount Rainier is covered in snow the whole year.
Some of the snow has formed glaciers, masses of ice that slowly
move down the mountain under their own weight.