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f you could visit any spot on Earth, where would
yyou go? What if you wanted to see some of the most
amazing natural wonders in the world?
There are deserts that haven’t seen rain for hundreds of
years and jungles where it pours almost every day. There are
places so cold that even in the summer it’s below freezing
and spots where it’s often hot enough to cook an egg on the
ground. There are mountains many miles high and ocean
trenches that are even deeper. You can find rivers thousands
of miles long and waterfalls thousands of feet high.
Where are the very hottest and coldest, windiest and
snowiest, highest and deepest places on Earth? Travel the
world and visit the planet’s record holders.
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The Nile, in Africa, is the
longest river in the world.
It is 4,145 miles long.
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Mount Everest is the
highest mountain in the
world. Its peak is 29,028 feet
above sea level.
Lake Baikal, in Russia,
is the world’s oldest and
deepest lake. The lake was
formed about 25 million
years ago. In one spot it is
5,134 feet deep.
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Mount Everest is
considered the highest
mountain—above sea level—
in the world, but it’s not
really the tallest. Measured
from its base on the floor of
the ocean, Mauna Kea, in
Hawaii, is 33,476 feet tall.
Only the top 13,796 feet
of Mauna Kea are above
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The coldest place
on the planet is Vostok,
Antarctica. A temperature
of 129°F below zero was
recorded there.
The hottest spot on
the planet is Al Aziziyah,
Libya, in the Sahara, where
a temperature of over
136°F has been recorded.
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The wettest place
on Earth is Tutunendo,
Colombia, where an average
of 463 inches of rain falls
every year.
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The windiest spot
on Earth is atop Mount
Washington, in New
Hampshire. A wind speed
of 231 miles per hour has
been recorded there.
The driest place is the
Atacama Desert, in Chile,
where no rain has fallen
for the last 400 years.
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The world’s highest
waterfall is Angel Falls,
in Venezuela. It is 3,212
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The deepest spot in the
ocean is the Marianas Trench,
in the Philippines. It is
36,202 feet deep.
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The world’s most active
volcano is Sangay, in Ecuador.
Since 1937 it has erupted once
every 24 hours on average.
It once erupted more than
400 times in a single day.
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The most extreme tides
occur in the Bay of Fundy,
in Nova Scotia, Canada.
There the water level rises
and falls more than 50 feet
every 6 hours.
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The snowiest place on
Earth is Mount Rainier,
in Washington State. One
year, more than 1,200
inches of snow fell there.
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