10 Amazing Places In The World

Monday, September 19, 2011

 Ten places below are the most extreme places on earth. Starting from Venezuela, Russia and even the middle east, all these places have their advantages and features second to none.
Angels Falls (Venezuela): 3230 feet Highest Waterfall 

The first is Angel Falls (Salto Ángel). Waterfalls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall. 3230 high waterfall (984 m) located on a tributary of Rio
Caroni. The waterfall is formed when the river flows down from the top of Auyantepui.


Mt. Chimborazo (Ecuador): Highest point of the Center of the Earth 20.703 feet (6.310 m) above sea level 
 Not many people know about Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador with an altitude of 6310 meters (20,703 feet), slightly different from Mount Everest, but have differences. Chimborazo is the highest mountain in the top center of the earth. This is because the Earth has a round shaft. As the shaft round, Earth is the most extensive on the equator. Chimborazo is just one degree south of the equator of the earth and the location it is 6384 kilometers from the center of the Earth, or about 2 miles farther from Earth's center than Mount Everest. 

Tristan de Cunha (UK): Island Derelict Places on Earth Most Isolated 2.000 miles from the Continent Located Nearby 

Remote uninhabited island group in the world, Tristan de Cunha in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is a very small island, and has no foundation. Home to 272 people consisting of eight family names, residents there had hereditary complaints such as asthma and glaucoma. Annexed by the United Kingdom in the 1800s, the islanders have a zip code and English, while they can order goods online, in need of a very long time for their orders to come.

Lut Desert (Iran): hottest place on Earth 159 ° F (71 ° C) 
There was a big discussion about the hottest places on earth. Many who believe in Al Azizyah, Libya, with recorded temperatures of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 degrees Celsius), and the second hottest place in Death Valley, California, United States, which is 134 Fahrenheit in 1913. But according to other sites, a NASA satellite recorded surface temperatures as high as 71 ° C (159 ° F) in the Lut desert of Iran, it is said that this is the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. This region, which covers an area about 480 kilometers, called Gandom Beriyan (toasted grain).


Oymyakon (Russia): coldest place in the World? 96.2 ° F (? 71.2 ° C) 
Oymyakon is a village in Oymyakonsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River, 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest Tomtor the Kolyma Highway. The population is 800 people. Oymyakon is known as one of the candidates for the North Pole of Cold, because on January 26, 1926, the temperature of -71.2 ° C (-96.2 ° F) was recorded there. This is the lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location on Earth. It is also the lowest temperature recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Dry Valleys (Antarctica): driest place on Earth 
One area of ​​Antarctica known as the Dry Valleys. In this valley there is no rainfall for more than 2 million years. With the exception of one valley, the lakes are briefly filled with water from flowing inland rivers during the summer, the Dry Valleys contain no moisture (water, ice, or snow). Dry Valleys is the reason why there are under 200 mph katabatic winds that evaporate any moisture. Dry valleys are strange: but some steep rocks. This valley is the only part of the continent of Antarctica without ice. Located on the Trans-Antarctic Range and is associated with mountainous regions where the evaporation (or more precisely, sublimation) is more important than snow, so all the ice disappears, leaving a dry barren land.


Marianas Trench (Indonesia and Japan): The Lowest Point on Earth 35.840 feet (10.924 m) below sea level 
Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest point in Earth's oceans. It is 10,924 meters (35,840 feet) below sea level. The only people who'v
e explored this trench is Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh. At the bottom they are seven miles down and all around them eight tons of pressure. They watched the fish, shrimp and other creatures living beneath the seafloor.

 Lloro (Columbia): wettest place on Earth

Lloro, Colombia, in an average of 40 feet of rain a year. The people who live there to make money by cutting down the trees in the woods nearby where you can rely on rain every day. Again, no discussion of this fact. Cherrapunji, North-East India is estimated over the years to become the wettest place in the world. Here the average rainfall of 10,820 mm a year, well short of the amount of Lloro. Unlike Colombia where the rain falls throughout the year, Cherrapunji get most of the rain during the 'monsoon west', or the rainy season, between June and August. In fact, between 1860 and 1862 was very wet Cherrapunji; between August 1, 1860 and July 31, 1861 (the overlapping part of the second wet season) 26 467 mm of rain fell.

Mount Thor (Canada): Vertical High Places on Earth 
Mount Thor, in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, providing the highest vertical of 4100 feet. Mount Thor is the most famous peaks in Canada, and it's made of pure granite. This is a favorite among thrill seekers and hikers. Thor Mountain was first climbed in 1953 by the Arctic Institute of North America team. There are several climbing expeditions ever undertaken here. So far, there was one death in 2006.
 
Dead Sea (Jordan): The Lowest Place on Earth Berelevasi 1.385 ft (422 mt) below sea level 
The latter is the Dead Sea. Sea is the lowest elevation on the surface of the earth on dry land, surface and coast line is 422 meters (1385 feet) below sea level. On the border of Jordan and Israel, the roads around the Dead Sea also became the lowest on Earth. Renowned for salinity (ten times stronger than the Mediterranean Sea) and because of the extreme salt content, there is no creature that can survive in that ocean.
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4 comments:

suex said...

nice artikel... :D
wow, I think I want to try a holiday home there .. : D

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th'x...
happy blogging today

nidya said...

wow,, which one do you prefer to go ? :D

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