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1 How is the line of latitude 66°33′46.0″ N otherwise known?
A The Arctic Circle
2 Which is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent?
A Africa, the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent, after Asia.
3 Which is the larger by area of the two major islands of New Zealand?
A South Island
4 Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, are the main islands of which island group?
A Balearic Islands
5 If your geographical position is 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude, where would you be?
A in the Atlantic Ocean (about 380 miles south of Ghana and 670 miles west of Gabon) South Atlantic Ocean where the equator and the prime meridian meet. Null Island is a one-square-metre area that was created in 2011 by Natural Earth GIS Data. It’s used to flag geocode failures that mapping services route to 0,0.
6 Made almost entirely of rock salt, the hill known as Mount Sodom is in which country?
A Dead Sea (Israel)
7 Which country has more lakes than the rest of the world?
A Canada – with 879,800 lakes
8 What is the name of the circle of latitude that lies approximately 23 degrees south of the equator?
A Tropic of Capricorn (Southern Tropic) (it is very gradually moving northward,
9 In which country is the Rangipo Desert?
A New Zealand (North Island)
10 At 5,642 metres, in which country is Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest mountain?
A Russia