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Lake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica's almost 400 known subglacial lakes. Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia's Vostok Station under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above mean sea level.

A Small Circle in Asia Contains More Than Half the World's Population

The Valeriepieris circle is a South China Sea-centered circular region on the world map that is about 4,000 kilometers (2,500 mi) in radius (roughly 6.7% of the Earth's total surface area) and contains more than half the world's population.

The only place in the United States where you can be in 4 states at the same time!
Meet : Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.

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Scientists have detected a gigantic reservoir of hot, partly molten rock deep beneath Yellowstone National Park. The newly discovered magma reservoir is big enough to fill up the Grand Canyon 11 times and is several times larger than the shallower, long-known magma chamber beneath Yellowstone.

Lake Baikal
The oldest and deepest lake on earth located in Russia.

All told, fresh water lakes make up just 0.007% of the total amount of water on Earth, but comprise the overwhelming majority of liquid fresh water on our surface. Most of Earth's lakes are relatively young, less than 18,000 years old and formed during the end of the last ice age. Only 20 lakes, worldwide, are ancient: more than 1 million years old. But Lake Baikal is not only Earth's oldest lake, at 25-30 million years of age, but it's also the largest.

Although practically all of Earth's human population lives on dry land, our surface is 71% covered by water. Of that water, almost all of it is in the oceans, with just 2.5% of it in the form of fresh, rather than salt, water. Most of Earth's fresh water is in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, and water and ice beneath the surface. Most of the rest, as you might expect, is in the large reservoirs of liquid water on our land masses: Earth's lakes.

source: forbes and wiki.

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The Chamarel plain in Mauritius has a small area of sand dunes made up of sand in seven distinct colors?

The seven colored earth is a natural phenomenon and a prominent tourist attraction. The colors evolved through conversion of basaltic lava to clay minerals. It is a relatively small area ofsand dunes comprising sand of seven distinct colours (approximately red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow).

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In 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes measuring around 8 on the Richter scale, caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. These earthquakes also created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee.