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1 Mount Everest (in the Himalayas; it is 29,029
feet or 8,848 metres above sea level)
2 Bosporus (also called the Istanbul Strait)
3 Ecuador
4 Antarctica
5 Diamond
6 Australia
7 Arctic Ocean
8 Atlantic & Pacific Oceans
9 Tagus or Douro Rivers
10 Indian Ocean
11 London
12 Zambezi River
13 A fjord
14 Oasis
15 Mediterranean Sea
16 Mauna Kea (in Hawaii; it measures 33,476 feet, 10,203 from the seafloor)
17 Seismology
18 True
19 Pacific Ocean
20 Caspian Sea
21 Africa
22 The equator
23 Prime Meridian or Greenwich Meridian
24 Colorado River
25 Amazon River system (averages 6,100,000 cubic feet per second / 172,734
cubic metres per second)
26 Italy
27 Chile (the east of Tierra del Fuego belongs to Argentina and the west
to Chile)
28 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
29 People's Republic of China
30 The Bering Strait
31 South Pole
32 England, Scotland and Wales
33 Paraguay or Bolivia
34 Mozambique
35 English Channel
36 Aboriginals
37 Iceland (the Thingvellir first met in AD 930)
38 Antarctica
39 Portuguese
40 Aswan High Dam and the River Nile
41 Portugal
42 Andes
43 Honshu
44 Pyrenees
45 False (Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point)
46 Italy
47 Bolivia (La Paz the capital city is 4 kms above sea level)
48 New Zealand
49 Madrid
50 Antarctica (named for the Queen of Norway in 1930)
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