有哪些有趣的地理知識？_風聞

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Cuba used to be in the Pacific Ocean off the Mexican coast. It got to where it is by tectonically smashing thru Central America a couple hundred million years ago.

There are 18 volcanoes in the US with the potential to erupt again, in Alaska, Hawaii, Yellowstone Park, and the West Coast states.

古巴過去曾在太平洋上，離墨西哥海岸不遠。它到達現在的位置，是因為幾億年前中美洲地區發生了大規模的地殼運動。

美國有18座火山可能會再次噴發，分別位於阿拉斯加、夏威夷、黃石公園和西海岸的各州。

A few years ago, somebody had a great idea to look on the continental shelf off the estuaries of South Africa. Gravel had been washed down those rivers for millions of years. About one hundred million karats of diamond were discovered under shallow water at each of eleven locations.

The Carribean coasts of Venezuela and Columbia used to be called “the Pearl Coast”. The Spanish used native and African slaves to completely and thoroughly exploit the oyster resource there. For many decades, the Pearl Coast exported a pearl harvest that exceeded the value of Spanish gold and silver shipped to Spain.

幾年前，有人想到了一個好主意，他想查看南非河口附近的大陸架。數百萬年間，各種碎石都從河流中被衝下去。最後在11個地點的淺水區都各發現了大約1億克拉的鑽石。

委內瑞拉和哥倫比亞的加勒比海岸曾被稱為“珍珠海岸”。西班牙人曾利用當地和非洲的奴隸，將那裏的牡蠣資源完全開發完了。那幾十年間，珍珠海岸出口的珍珠價值超過了南美運往西班牙的金銀價值。

The northern reaches of the Mississippi River were a prime pearl source (from river clams) prior to the Nineteenth century. a good-sized, natural, round pearl occurs only once in every 10,000 river clams. Native Americans of the Upper Mississippi River Valley were wearing pearls in necklaces and other ornaments when the early French explorers arrived. A German by the name of J.F. Boepple founded the Mississippi River pearl button industry. By 1890, Muscatine, Iowa, was known as the Pearl Button Capital of the World. 2,500 workers were employed in 43 different button-related businesses. The button company was producing ninety percent of all buttons in the United States

Lobsters used to be so plentiful in colonial America that they were fed to prisoners in Massachusetts prisons. The waters around New York once yielded oysters weighing one pound. Birds were so prevelent in the original forests around New York that hikers had to shout to be heard.

十九世紀以前，密西西比河的北部出產了大量的珍珠(來自河蚌)。每10000個河蚌中就可以發現一顆大的、天然的圓形珍珠。當早期的法國探險者到達時，密西西比河上游的美洲原住民都戴着珍珠項鍊和其他珍珠裝飾品。一個名叫J.F. Boepple的德國人創立了密西西比河珍珠鈕釦工業。到1890年，愛荷華州的馬斯卡廷被稱為“世界珍珠紐扣之都”。美國百分之九十的珍珠紐扣都是由這家公司生產的

在殖民時期的美國，龍蝦是如此的豐富，以至於馬薩諸塞州監獄裏的囚犯都吃龍蝦。紐約周圍的水域曾產有一磅多重的牡蠣。而且在紐約周圍的原始森林裏，鳥類非常多，徒步旅行者們必須大聲喊叫才能聽到彼此的聲音。

Vikings crossed arctic seas to settle Iceland in the 10th century.

Around 1200 AD, Polynesian mariners crossed 2,500 miles of ocean to reach Easter Island. Later, Polynesian mariners crossed 4,000 miles of ocean to reach Peru. 

The first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (after the invention of the compass) was about 3,000 miles.

維京人在10世紀就曾跨越北冰洋來到冰島定居。

公元1200年左右，波利尼西亞水手曾跨越2500英里的海洋到達復活節島。後來，波利尼西亞水手還曾跨越4000英里的海洋到達秘魯。

克里斯托弗·哥倫布的第一次航行是在1492年(在指南針發明之後)，航行了大約3000英里。

The first humans to land in the western hemisphere were African fisherman swept out to sea by storms around 30,000 years sgo snd transported to Brazil, probably to near Rio de Janeiro. Over the centuries, a measurable population accrued on the Brazilian coast. They left hearths and cave paintings. They survived unmolested for twenty centuries. Around 10,000 years ago, Native Americans arrived overland and attacked them, ultimately driving them south to Tierra del Fuego. 2,000 years ago, a Roman ship loaded with Moroccan wine and olive oil suffered a similar fate.

最早登陸西半球的人類是非洲漁民，大約3萬年前，他們被風暴捲到海里，然後被帶到巴西，很可能是在里約熱內盧附近。在那裏生存了多個世紀，人口並逐漸增加。他們留下了壁爐和洞穴壁畫。它們安然無恙地生存了20個世紀。直到大約1萬年前，美洲原住民從陸路來到這裏，攻擊他們，最終將他們趕到火地島南部。2000年前，一艘滿載摩洛哥葡萄酒和橄欖油的羅馬船也曾遭到被風吹到南美的命運。

Gypsies got that name because they were presumed to have come to Europe fom Egypt. 

Cossacks derive from serfs who fled feudal servitude in medi eastern Europe.

Old World livestock and crop and decorative plants (and weeds) are pervasive in the New World. Conversely, very few New World plants and animals - mostly corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and turkeys - have similarly penetrated the Old World.

吉普賽人之所以有這個名字，是因為人們認為他們是從埃及來到歐洲的。

哥薩克人，起源於中世紀東歐逃離封建奴役的農奴。

舊大陸的牲畜、農作物和裝飾植物(以及雜草)在新大陸隨處可見。相反，很少有新世界的植物和動物滲透到舊世界，除了玉米、西紅柿、土豆和火雞。

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1.Russia is so large that it spreads over 11 different time zones. When one side of Russia has a morning breakfast at 8 am; the other side enjoys evening snacks at 7 pm

2.The largest ocean in the world, Pacific Ocean

3. 22 of the 25 largest volcanic eruptions in the last 11,700 years occurred in the ‘Ring of Fire’.

4.Around 90% of the world population lives in the northern hemisphere.

1.俄羅斯幅員遼闊，橫跨11個不同的時區。當俄羅斯的一邊還在早上8點吃早餐;而對方已經在晚上7點吃宵夜。

2.世界上最大的海洋——太平洋。

3.在過去的11700年裏，25次大規模的火山爆發中有22次發生在“火山帶”。

4.世界上大約90%的人口生活在北半球。

5. It’s forbidden for airplanes to fly over the Taj Mahal

6. The Rivers originating from Tibetan Plateau are the source of living for almost 2.7 Billion people in the World!!!

7. Himalayan Mountain ranges are the only one of its kind to spread over six countries.

5. 在泰姬陵上空禁止飛機飛行

6. 發源於青藏高原的河流是世界上近27億人的水來源!!

7. 喜馬拉雅山脈是唯一分佈在六個國家的山脈。

8. Istanbul is the largest city in the world that is on two different continents.

9. Finland and North Korea are separated by just one country.

The reason I say one country is from North Korea you can get to Finland by only through Russia without accessing the borders of other countries.

10. Greenland is not bigger than Africa.

8. 伊斯坦布爾是世界上唯一一個位於兩個不同大洲的城市。

9. 芬蘭和朝鮮只隔着一個國家。

我是説從朝鮮去芬蘭，你只能通過俄羅斯而不需要進入其他國家的邊界。

10. 格陵蘭島並不比非洲大。

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75% of all fresh water available on earth is stored in the glacier. Also, Lake Baikal in Russia contains 20% of the total non-frozen fresh water available on our planet.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. 90%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, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world’s oxygen supply.

地球上75%的淡水都儲存在冰川中。此外，俄羅斯的貝加爾湖含有地球上20%的非冰凍淡水。

南極洲是地球上唯一不屬於任何國家的土地。世界上90%的冰都覆蓋着南極洲。這些冰也代表了世界上70%的淡水。然而，説起來很奇怪的是，南極洲實際上是一片冰原荒漠。因為南極洲是地球上最乾燥的地方，絕對濕度比戈壁沙漠還低。

亞馬遜雨林生產了世界上20%以上的氧氣供應。

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is man-made.

In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

加拿大的湖泊比世界上其他國家的總和還多。

俄亥俄州沒有天然湖泊，每個湖都是人造的。

在撒哈拉沙漠，阿爾及利亞有一個叫迪迪克爾特的小鎮，十年沒有下過一滴雨。