In the
Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria, that did
not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically,
though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island.
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
The water
of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979
meters.)
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
Damascus,
Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in
753 BC making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
Antarctica
is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent
of the world's ice covers Antarctica This ice also represents seventy percent
of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however,
Antarctica is essentially a desert; the average yearly total precipitation is
about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.),
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower
than the Gobi desert.
No comments:
Post a Comment