Water is so scarce in the arid regions of China that, in the grasslands, the people never take baths, and sometimes must wash their faces in yak's milk.
Whale watching in South Africa has become part of the South African experience for tourists. The Cape Whale Route stretches from Doringbaai on the West Coast to the Tsitsikamma National Park on the East Coast and incorporates many varied whale viewing points. About thirty-seven species of whales and dolphins typically visit South Africa. The southern right whale is seen the most frequently.
With about 865 people per square mile, the island of Madeira is one of Europe's most densely populated regions.
With nearly ten million visitors in 1998, the beautiful and impressive Great Smoky Mountains National Park drew nearly twice the number of visitors as the second most-visited park, the Grand Canyon, with nearly five million visitors.
Within northern California's Humboldt Redwoods State Park's 53,000 acres, there are more than 17,000 acres of old-growth forest. Rockefeller Forest, close beside Bull Creek and the Eel River, is one of the largest remaining tracts of contiguous uncut coast redwood forest in the world.
Wonder World Park is a Texas Historical Site, and the most-visited cave in the state. Guided tours trek through the nation's only earthquake-formed cave. Following the tours, visitors exit the cave by elevator and catch a breathtaking view of the fault line's drop-off point from atop the Tejas Observation Tower. Wonder World Park also offers the largest petting park in Texas.
Yuletide-named towns in the United States include Santa Claus, located in Arizona and Indiana, Noel in Missouri, and Christmas in both Arizona and Florida.
According to Greek historian Herodotus, Egyptian men never became bald. The reason for this was that, as children, Egyptian males had their heads shaved, and their scalps were continually exposed to the health-giving rays of the sun.
According to the National Geographic Society, a survey of 18- to 24-year-olds from nine nations put the United States dead last in general geographic knowledge scores. One in seven — about 24 million people — could not find their own country on a world map. The survey revealed that Americans possess a pathetically poor sense of where they are — much less any knowledge about the rest of the world. And even more alarming, those who participated in the survey were recent high school and college graduates.
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the first populated land where the Sun will rise on a new day is at Kahuitara Point (44° 16' S 176° 9' W) on Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands, a dependency of New Zealand.
Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high. It is located along the flatland of the Kobuk River in the northwestern part of the state.
Alaska has the longest coastline in the United States. It measures 6,640 miles, greater than that of all other states combined. The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, 2,784,960 acres in size, is located on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska. Bering Land Bridge is a land bridge remnant that connected Asia with North America more than 13,000 years ago. There are no roads leading into the Preserve; therefore, there is no automobile access to the Preserve. Four-wheelers are prohibited, but snow machines are permitted in the winter months. Summer days are long, almost without darkness. Winter days are short, with only a few hours of light. Exposure and hypothermia are real threats to visitors throughout the year.
America purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000 — about 2 cents an acre.
Among the fifty-two London churches Sir Christopher Wren created from 1670 to 1711, the greatest was St. Paul's Cathedral.
Antarctica is 98 percent ice, 2 percent barren rock. The average thickness of the ice sheet is 7,200 feet; this amounts to 90 percent of all the ice and 70 percent of all the fresh water in the world. If the ice cap were to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230 feet.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes
Antarctica's inhabitants number about 1,000 people in winter and about 2,000 in summer. More people fill a football stadium for one game than have ever been to Antarctica, which is nearly twice the size of the United States. In fact, the Ross Ice Shelf, hundreds of feet thick, is about the same size in land area as France.
Antibes, on the eastern French Riviera, was founded by the Greeks in the fourth century B.C. After World War II, Pablo Picasso left Paris to live near the Mediterranean. He worked for six months in the Grimaldi castle where he painted La Joi De Vivre. It is now a museum that holds many of Picasso's paintings and pottery. Antibes also hosts one of the largest antique shows in Europe each spring.
Approximately 70 percent of the Earth is covered with water. Only 1 percent of the water is drinkable.
Arguably the largest state in the world, Western Australia covers one-third of the Australian continent. It spans over 2.5 million square kilometers (1 million square miles).
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