Yosemite is considered the crown jewel of the Sierra Nevada, a California mountain range dubbed the Range of Light by naturalist John Muir soon after first viewing it in 1869. By his writings, Muir singlehandedly lobbied the American people and...

The South Pole is the southern extremity of the earth's axis located at 90-degrees South latitude in Antarctica. This geographic feature is the point from which the only direction is North. The area around the South Pole is a plateau in west-central...

The mysterious and beautiful lights (auroras) usually seen by those living near the magnetic north pole is caused by the intense activity of the Sun! The Sun emits a constant stream of charged particles, known as the solar wind. As these particles...

Largest island - Greenland, 839,999 square miles (2,175,600 square kilometers), seems to have been misnamed by Vikings hoping to attract settlers to a colony on the southern coast, which, to be fair, is green for a short time in summer. Longest river...

Lowest point - The Dead Sea, located on the border between Jordan and Israel, is 1,312 feet (400 meters ) below sea level. It is filled by the River Jordan and drained only by evaporation. Under the hot desert sun, evaporation outstrips the river’s...

Highest point on Earth - The peak of Mount Everest on the border of Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalaya is 29,028 feet (8,848 meters) above sea level. Known as Chomolungma, “Goddess Mother of the World,” to the native people, the British christened the...

The volcanic landscape of Mount St. Helens is one of the newest on Earth. It is stunning, dynamic, and inspiring. On May 18th, 1980, the long dormant Mount St. Helens volcano erupted and over the course of several weeks the blast transformed the...

Venice is also known as “La Serenissima” (the most serenely beautiful one) and “Queen of the Adriatic”. The city stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. Venice has 160...

In the 17th century Amsterdam was the centre of world economy. Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,200 bridges within its bounds. Amsterdam has the highest number of nationalities of any city in the world - 175 . In 2007, British...

Europe is the second smallest continent with roughly 4 million square miles. Europe is home to more than 700 million people, but birth rates are stagnant. The largest city in Europe is Paris with a population of just under 10 million people.The...

The word Asia originated from the Greek word "????", first attributed to Herodotus (about 440 BC) in reference to Anatolia. Asia covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area (or 29.9% of its land area) and with approximately 4 billion people, it...

Waterfalls are grouped into ten broad classes based on the average volume of water present on the fall using a logarithmic scale. Types of waterfalls: block, cascade, cataract, fan, horsetail, plunge, punchbowl, segmented,...