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At different times in history, there has been suggested that a Quadripoint - or meeting of four countries, existed in Africa - between Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia. However this is generally now not believed to be true, with instead two tripoints quite close to each other marked.
Instead, the most is three, known as a tripoint. Amazingly, there ...
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GMaps for the geographical center of Russian Federation.
As you can see, this is a mountain located lake with no cities among many miles from it. Also this lake is on Arctic Circle, and not very well explored by people. We even doesn't know the maximum depth of it.
Also you have to know that this region is a seismically active - you can see the trees at ...
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To some extent, this depends how you define a "country".
For one definition of country, the maximum countries that meet at a single point is 7.
The countries that meet at this single point are :
Argentina
Australia
Chile
France
New Zealand
Norway
United Kingdom
The point where they all meet? Latitude 90 degrees South - otherwise known as the South ...
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If you and your girlfriend are willing to go for a hot summer hike and cold swim, there is Upper Little Stoney Falls in the Jefferson National Forest - Hanging Rock Day Use Area, near Dungannon, Virginia.
Waterfall photos: http://www.waterfall-picture-guide.com/upper-little-stoney-falls.html
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Google Earth can do this. Click on the Sun-icon and draw the slider around until you see the sun rising:
Example is from Google Earth 6.0.3.2197.
This is mainly suitable if you need only one place and time, not if you need full tables of many places and times. Also, of course, in mountainous areas the answer is extremely local, but no tool can give you ...
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This area is close to the Putorana plateau, "near" the city of Norilsk, and indeed not too far from the village of Turokhansk.
As a look at the topographic map shows, the area is full of rivers and hills. You might be able to get there by boat from Turokhansk, as mentioned in VMAtm's answer, but it's probably easiest to get there in winter.
January and ...
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Can I suggest Stellarium, which is a free planetarium program available for Mac OS, Windows and linux.
For any date, time and geographical location, you can obtain sunrise time and position.
To take account of mountains etc, there is the added option of including into Stellarium a horizon image. This will give you an idea of how mountains etc may affect ...
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The Photographer's Ephemeris is the one that I use. It's quite practical and is an Adobe Air application.
I use it for the same reason that you mentioned and it hasn't failed yet no matter where I was.
It's available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android system, Windows and Mac.
Desktop version are free but you do have to pay 5$ (Android) or 9$ (iOS) for ...
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All these graphical tools are very nice, but you can simply go to Time and Date on the internet. There under Sun and Moon you can check for any time. For example, to see the November 2012 times for Vancouver.
Another way is to look at the weather on Wunderground. For example, the forecast for Vancouver shows the sunrise and sunset times.
Naturally this ...
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EDIT: The 4 countries do not actually form a quadripoint (as Mark pointed out).
Apparently the answer is 3 countries, even though there used to be a quadripoint: two tripoints that are now very close where Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe meet at approximately the same place, in Kazungula.
But there are a lot more of tripoints.
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