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1 Clouds
2 Albania
3 24
4 Africa (the animal is the giraffe)
5 Mexico
6 Orange (Oranje) River
7 Tigris
8 Amazon
9 Formosa Strait
10 Atlas (from Greek mythology)
11 Finland and Sweden
12 Date Line (or International Date Line)
13 Cartography
14 Ulan Bator (Ulaanbaatar)
15 Five from: Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
or the USA
16 Belgium (Flemings are Dutch speaking and Walloons are French speaking)
17 Japan
18 Caledonia
19 The Red Sea
20 Antarctica
21 A nautical mile, (it is 796 feet [243 m] longer than a statute
mile which is 5,280 feet, [1,609 m])
22 Byzantium or Constantinople
23 Two
24 False
25 Nepal
26 Pangaea
27 The Rocky mountains (formed between 60 and 80 million years ago, the
Appalachian mountains formed between 280 and 300 million years age)
28 Atlantic (South Atlantic)
29 One year (365.3 days)
30 The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
31 Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m)
32 40,000, (it is exactly 40.075 kms or 24,901.5 miles)
33 Bolivia (La Paz is 4 kms above sea level)
34 Venezuela (the falls are 979 m high)
35 New Zealand (the kiwi is a flightless bird)
36 Argentina and Chile
37 Mount Logan (SW Yukon territory; 5,951 m high)
38 Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
39 Wind speed/force
40 The South China Sea
41 Aluminium
42 France (it originated there in 1670 with Gabriel Mouton)
43 Water
44 Oil
45 True
46 Thailand
47 USA, Belize and Guatemala
48 Rome
49 Tanzania
50 Eire (Republic of Ireland), England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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