Hot answers tagged where-on-earth
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Copterline operates a frequent helicopter service between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. They advertise it as follows:
FAST CLASS by Copterline is the fastest, most efficient way to travel
between Helsinki and Tallinn - from city center to city center in 18
minutes.
Ten scheduled flights each workday put you above the inconveniences of
...
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It's on the northwest tower of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. There's an informative page about it on the cathedral's website:
You can see it from ground level, but they advise binoculars.
As for why it's there:
Washington National Cathedral held a decorative sculpture competition for children... The
third-place winner was ...
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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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First I have to say that is very difficult to answer your question, because is near impossible to say "hey, this volcano will be launching lava on this dates". If you remove Hawaii from your list, I believe the only places you can see lava are:
Mount Erebus: Antarctica, not very easy to reach and really difficult to climb. Has a lava lake.
Erta Ale: ...
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I would work this out strategically, and look up lists like The Ten Most Active Volcanoes in the World.
There are approximately 1,500 active volcanoes in the world today and 75 percent of them are located in the "Pacific Ring of Fire." On average, 50-70 volcanoes erupt every year.
As the article text below provides descriptions, I've included photos along ...
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Not lots of airports, but lots of rich people:
Heli Air Monaco operates a regular flight between Nice airport and Monaco every 30mn.
Fee is 105€ from Monaco to Nice and 120€ from Nice to Monaco, or 210€ for both.
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Mount Athos, in Greece, does not permit women to enter. Wikipedia explains the rationale behind this prohibition as
Monks feel that the presence of women alters the social dynamics of the community and therefore slows their path towards spiritual enlightenment.
However, you may want to refine your question. For example, most restrooms are divided on ...
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The watercraft's official name is Seabreacher Y and is made by Innespace.
Sadly, no company is renting these crafts yet, but that is hopefully subject to change soon:
Can I rent one?
Not at this stage, but many of our customers have expressed interest
in starting Seabreacher rental operations, so there may be a
Seabreacher rental facility near ...
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Well this list has an index to ALL the Wikipedia pages for lighthouses in the world.
I'll ignore lightvessels for this question.
For European countries:
Belgium - 6
Bulgaria - 5
Denmark - 6
Estonia - 42
Finland - 9
France - several
Wales - 25ish
Scotland - tons
Portugal - 44 continental, more in Azores
Spain - tons
Sweden - 20ish
England - 50ish
Norway - ...
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The ocean floor.
Any other unexplored spots pale in comparison with about 75% of the planet's surface covered by oceans, of which hardly anything deeper than 100m has been meaningfully explored. There are literally millions of square kilometers about which we know nothing except a very coarse-grained depth profile. There could be a hundred sunken Atlantises ...
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In the past there was such a service in New York. I was booked on it once to get to Newark from LaGuardia and once between JFK and LaGuardia. Both times the weather was "bad" - helicopters set a really low bar for "bad" - and I had to make the connection on the ground. I am not sure if the service still runs but New York, with lots of airports and lots of ...
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The one he is probably referring to was actually presented by Venezuela - The Equestrian Monument of Simon Bolivar, liberator of Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela from Spanish rule.
This statue is at the entrance to Central Park at the north end of Sixth Avenue - The Avenue Of The Americas - so it fits the context of the story well.
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So it depends a lot on how you define it.
If we go the Wikipedia route, it'll be Lake Karachay in Western Russia. The Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40).
Then we have the Irish source, which ...
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Yes, you can have that experience in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (JED). The new airport is still under construction and most of the old airport uses stairs to board until now! Anyway, Two daily A380 flights operated by Emirates depart from JED to Dubai (DXB), one in the morning and one in the evening and passengers board these flights using stairs.
This is an A380 ...
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Another answer, courtesy of an email response from Russ Rowlett of The Lighthouse Directory:
All the European countries have many lighthouses, but they differ in
how accessible they are. The Netherlands has a large number of major
lighthouses within a small area, and most of them are accessible.
Portugal has many beautiful lighthouses and they are ...
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This is what you want in Google Maps.
This Phenomenon is called Danxia landform. You can see more pics here.
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The Riyadh Women University campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia could qualify as an answer to your question. Its new campus can accommodate 40,000 (female-only) students and 12,000 (female-only) employees. There are only women because of the Saudi laws of sex segregation. Inaugurated in June 2011, it spreads over 8 million square meters (2,800 km²) with 800 ...
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You can book tours (from several operators, easily found on the web) to the Chernobyl power plant, including visits to the abandoned city of Pripyat and the red forest (an area where intense radiation fallout killed most of the vegetation).
I believe that the tour guides will have radiation measurement devices to show that the background radiation is back ...
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Route 6 East, stands up as the longest I can find. Route 6 used to be the longest road in the US, until 1964 when it was truncated. However, distances ON the route don't change (cities don't move) and as such, this is still visible, in Bisop, California:
(source)
3205 miles is approximately 5157.95 kilometres.
Then there's this in Brazil:
(source)
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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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Many Thai people vacation in Malaysia, it's not too expensive for them and they still feel at home there. So just as @MastaBaba suggested I would also suggest Malaysia. Many areas are very similar to Thailand and communication is not too much of a problem. Oh and you might poke in to Singapore while you're there to really fill up the meter for your ...
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According to this Wikimedia image you can find cheetahs around Africa and Middle East.
Image is in public domain
One of the easiest places to see Cheetahs (I saw a lot there) is Masai Mara National Park (Kenya).
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I would also recommend Pacaya in Guatemala, it is easy to get to and you can stand pretty much next to the lava, even though many people have melt their shoes while doing this.
The main reason why I would recommend Guatemala is that there are several other smoking volcanos in the area.
My highlight in Guatemala though was watching an erupting volcano from ...
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Our friends at Wikipedia have a page about Speed Limits, on there is a section about 'Roads without speed limits'. Besides the German Autobahns, the only other roads that are currently without speed limits are rural roads on the Isle of Man, but I doubt you can go really fast on them.
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It's common practice on the iron ore train in Mauritania.
The train carries iron ore in huge hoppers. There are no roofs -- passengers either ride with the ore or pay a small amount for a ticket in the passenger car. The scenery is barren desert, the ride is brutally uncomfortable, and temperatures are extremely hot. I rode last summer solo from Choum to ...
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If Wikipedia is up-to-date, then Buenos Aires has a good claim to having the oldest subway coaches in commercial service in the world, built between 1913 and 1919. They have been running on line A since its inception. These trains were being phased out as of 2010; I'll let someone with a better grasp of Spanish determine whether they are still running now.
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Amazingly it was a kid's competition that got it there. The Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC - where Star Wars villain’s sculpted image sits next to a raccoon 200ft up America’s national house of prayer.
A story about it in The Sun.
The Wikipedia article on the Cathedral has more information too:
The Cathedral boasts what is probably ...
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Bali (an island of Indonesia) is similar to Thailand in all aspects.
Bali is cheap.
10 Euros are basically 124.000 Rupiah. Native usually spends only 20.000 Rupiah for their lunch/dinner. It means You can live and eat like a king.
Incredible beaches
Bali has a lot of beautiful beaches. Try to search for Nusa Dua/ Sanur beach in Google.
Stay away from ...
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The main campus of Penn State University has an educational nuclear reactor facility, the Breazeale reactor, that offers tours to the public. As part of the tour, they take you through the reactor room where you can see the Cerenkov radiation from the uranium. The reactor itself is submerged under something like 15 feet of water, which is ample protection ...
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