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,...

The Grand Canyon is located in Arizona and stretches to Colorado. The canyon was created by the Colorado River over a 5.4 million year period. The Grand Canyon's oldest sedimentary rocks date back almost 2 billion years. Lived in for hundreds of...

The island was formed as the result of volcanic activity and is just 27 miles long (north to south) by 14 miles wide (east to west). Total area size is 616sq km. St Lucia became self governing on 1st March 1967, and obtained total independence from...