Lut Dessert (Iran)
Hottest place in the World
A NASA satellite to measure the surface temperature in this place that reaches up to 71 C (159 F) which is the highest temperature on earth has ever recorded.
Mt. Chimborazo (Ecuador)
Highest mountain of the Earth Center
Everyone knows that Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Summit of Mount Everest is 8848 meters (29,028 feet) above sea level. This high altitude makes Mount Everest as a mountain with the highest altitude. But not many people know about Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador with a height of 6310 meters (20,703 feet), which is less than Mount Everest, but Chimborazo became the highest mountain of the center of the Earth. This is because the Earth is not round but oval. because the oval, the distance between the Earth's most widely located in the equator. Chimborazo is only one degree south of the equator of the earth and the location is 6384 kilometers from the center of the earth, or about 2 miles farther from the center of the earth than Mount Everest.
Tristan de Cunha (UK)
Remote island in the world
Remote inhabited island located in the South Atlantic Ocean. Distance to the nearest continent as far as 2000 miles.
Angels Falls (Venezuela)
Highest Waterfall in the World
Waterfall Salto Angel or Angel is a water free-falling waterfall in the world with the highest altitude of 979 meters (3212 feet) with a fall without resistance about 807 meters (2647 feet). This waterfall is located in the Rio Caroni, Canaima National Park, Venezuela.
Oymyakon (Russia)
Coldest cities in the World
Oymyakon is a village in the Oymyakonsky Ulus Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka river was, 30 km (20 miles) from the northwest Tomtor in Kolyma Highway. on January 26, 1926 the city became the coldest city on earth because the temperature reaches -71.2 ° C.
The Dry Valleys (Antarctica)
Driest place in the World
The valley is no rainfall for more than two million years and contain no water vapor (water, ice or snow).
Marianas Trench (Indonesia and Japan)
Deepest place in the World
Mariana Trench or the Marianas Trench is the deepest abyss known, and the deepest location on the Earth's crust. He is located at the base of the northwest Pacific Ocean, east of the Mariana Islands at 11 ° 21 'north latitude and 142 ° 12' east longitude, near the well with the Japanese. This trough is the boundary where two tectonic plates meet, a subduction zone where the Pacific Plate beneath the plate disubduksi Philippines. The basis of this trough far below sea level beyond the height of Mount Everest above sea level. This trough has a maximum depth of 10,911 meters (35,798 feet) below sea level.
Lloro (Colombia)
Wettest place in the World
Lloro holds the world record for annual rainfall average of the highest, which reaches up to 523.6 inches (13,300 mm) making it the wettest place in the world.
Mt. Thor
Thor Mountain National Park is located in Auyuittuq on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, presents a vertical drop 4100 feet. Mt. Thor is a mountain of Canada's most famous, made of pure granite.
Dead Sea (Jordan)
At the Earth's surface in the Lower Mainland
Dead sea is the lowest of the earth's surface on land with 422 meters below sea level.
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