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World Landmarks Flashcards

1
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Warm current that flows into North Atlantic
Mentioned in “The Old Man & the Sea” & Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”

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GULF STREAM

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Arm of the Mediterranean
Between Greece & Turkey
Named for Theseus’ father

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AEGEAN SEA

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Gulf off the Ionian Sea
Between Italy’s heel & sole

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GULF OF TARANTO

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Flows through Dublin
Crossed by the Ha’Penny bridge

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RIVER LIFFEY

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Longest river in Ireland & the British Isles
From Cuilcagh mountains to Limerick on the west coast

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RIVER SHANNON

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Bay on which Philippines’ capital is located

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MANILA BAY

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Gulf on the Adriatic
Shares name with Italian city within it

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GULF OF VENICE

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Croatia’s Adriatic coast
Includes Split & Dubrovnik
Named a dog, dead language, pelican, & molly (fish)

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DALMATIA(N)

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Between Taiwan & the island with which it shares a name

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LUZON STRAIT

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Between Italy & Balkans (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia again, Montenegro, & Albania)
Named for Italian port
Brindisi, Venice, Po River, Dalmatia, & Split are located on it
One end of the Iron Curtain (Trieste)
A kind of fig

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ADRIATIC SEA
(from ADRIA)

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Between Italy & Albania
Between Adriatic & Ionian

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STRAIT OF OTRANTO

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Greek island chain in the Aegean including Paros
“Encircle” Delos

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CYCLADES

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Greek island
Apollo’s birthplace

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DELOS

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One of the Cyclades
An armless statue of Venus was found there

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MELOS
(Venus de Milo)

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Largest of the Cyclades
Where Theseus abandoned Ariadne

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NAXOS

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One of the Cyclades
Gay-friendly, tourism-focused

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MYKONOS

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Island in the Agean
Named for Daedalus’ son

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IKARIA

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Largest island of the Philippines
Location of:
Manila & Manila Bay
Quezon City
Bataan Peninsula
Mount Pinatubo

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LUZON

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Largest & most populous of Greek islands (5th largest in Mediterranean)
Ruled by Minos from palace at Knossos
Southern bound of the Aegean Sea
Heraklion is its capital & largest city
Birthplace of El Greco (painter) & N. Kazantzakis (writer)

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CRETE

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20
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Chain of 12 Greek islands in the Aegean
Rhodes is the largest

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DODECANESE ISLANDS

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Aegean island on which a headless statue was found
Called the “Nike of…” or “Winged Victory of…” this island (it is now at the Louvre)

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SAMOTHRACE

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Volcanic Aegean island in the Cyclades
Name of a Yanni song

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SANTORINI

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23
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Northernmost of Greece’s Ionian Islands
Birthplace of Philip

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CORFU

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24
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Capital served by Schiphol Airport

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AMSTERDAM (AMS)

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Capital served by Haneda (older) & Narita (newer) airports

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TOKYO

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Tokyo, Japan’s newer of 2 busiest airports

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NARITA

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Volcano on Luzon in the Philippines
Erupted in 1991

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MOUNT PINATUBO

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Highest Alp
Between France & Italy
Near Chamonix
Tunnel through it opened 1965
Name of a pen company & a Shelley poem

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MONT BLANC

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“Monte Cervino” in Italian
Between Switzerland & Italy
Near Zermatt
In 1865, Whymper’s expedition scaled it but lost 4/7 members
Subject of fascination for Disney, replicated at Disneyland

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MATTERHORN

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30
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Monte Rosa is one of the highest peaks in this range

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THE ALPS

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31
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Volcano near Mexico City
Aztec name, means “Smoking”

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POPOCATEPETL

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Volcanic island in Indonesia’s Sunda Straight
1883 eruption was one of the biggest in human history

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KRAKATOA
KRAKATAU

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33
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Southernmost active volcano
Antarctica
Discovered by James Clark Ross, sits on Ross Island
Named for a ship
Name means “darkness”
In 1979 a plane crashed into it

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MOUNT EREBUS

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34
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Volcano
“Mongibello” in Sicilian
Mythic site of Hephaestus’ (or Vulcan’s) forge

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MOUNT ETNA

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35
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Volcano near Naples, Italy
Lies within “Monte Somma”
Camped upon by Spartacus
Erupted in 79 CE, destroying Pompeii & Herculaneum
Killed Pliny the Elder; the Younger described the event in letters
A 1906 eruption caused the 1908 Olympics to be moved from Rome to London
Last eruption was 1944

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MOUNT VESUVIUS

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36
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Chinese desert
On Gobi’s western side

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TAKLAMAKAN

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37
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Desert region of southern Israel
Irrigated by the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias)
Location of Beersheba & Ben-Gurion University

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NEGEV

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38
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Budapest, Hungary has an airport named for this musician

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FRANZ LISZT

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39
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Cotopaxi is a volcano in this country

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ECUADOR

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40
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Volcano/island north of Sicily
Where the heroes emerge in Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Also a rolled pizza dish & villain in Disney’s Pinocchio (1940)

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STROMBOLI

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41
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Alberta national park just north of Banff
Name is like a gem

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JASPER

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42
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Yemen island famed for its Dragon’s blood trees

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SOCOTRA

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43
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Antarctica’s longest river
Named like a mineral

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ONYX RIVER

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44
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Italy’s longest river
Flows from Alps in northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea
Turin is on it
Byron wrote “stanzas to” it

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PO

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45
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River of Myanmar/Burma
Flows into Bay of Bengal

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IRRAWADDY

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46
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Subject of Johann Struass’ “Tales from the…”
Forest in Austria

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WIENERWALD
VIENNA WOODS

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47
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Sea bounded by Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, & Corsica(France)
Tiber river flows into it

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TYRRHENIAN SEA

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48
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Between Sicily & Italy
From Ionian to Tyrrhenian seas
Site of Scylla & Charybdis

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STRAIT OF MESSINA

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49
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Between Italy & Greece
Adriatic to the North
Deepest part of Mediterranean
Supposedly named for a 2-letter nymp

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IONIAN SEA
(from IO)

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50
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Thai river
A famous “bridge” novel/film

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KWAI

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51
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Greek islands to the west
Also called “Heptanese” (for the 7 main ones)
Include Corfu & Ithaca

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IONIAN ISLANDS

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52
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Greek island in Aegean sea
Home of poet Sappho

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LESBOS

53
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Located in Batoka Gorge, between Zambia & Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River
Named by Livingstone in 1855
Known as “Smoke That Thunders”

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VICTORIA FALLS

54
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“Great River”
Rises in Zambia, dips into Angola, forms Zambia/Zimbabwe border
Africa’s 4th largest river
Includes Victoria Falls
Biggest river to flow into Indian Ocean (Mozambique Channel)

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ZAMBEZI

55
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Channel between Madagascar and the mainland
Part of the Indian Ocean
Zambezi River empties into it
Habitat for coelecanths

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MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL

56
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Gulf bordering Djibouti and Somalia
Leads from Arabian Sea to strait of Bab El Mandeb (to the Red Sea)
Shares name with Yemeni city

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GULF OF ADEN

57
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Bay bordering Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
Where the Ganges flows into the Indian Ocean
Also the mouth of the Krishna & Brahmaputra
World’s largest “Bay”

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BAY OF BENGAL

58
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Bay between New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
Largest tide range in the world
Site of Campobello Island

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BAY OF FUNDY

59
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New Brunswick island in the Bay of Fundy
Connected to Maine via FDR Bridge

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CAMPOBELLO ISLAND

60
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Longest river entirely within Spain
2nd longest river of Iberian peninsula (after the Tagus)
Flows into Mediterranean
Etymology from “Iberus”

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EBRO

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Highest flow of any river on the Iberian peninsula
Flows from Spain through Portugal to the Atlantic at Porto
Located north of the Tagus
Also a valley that produces port wine

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DOURO

62
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France’s longest river
Flows west through Orleans, Tours, & Nantes into the Bay of Biscay
Also a valley with famed Chateaux

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LOIRE

63
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River flowing from Czechia through Germany to the North Sea
Goes through Hamburg & Dresden
Formed part of East/West border

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ELBE
(LABE in Czech)

64
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Longest Iberian river
Flows from Spain through Portgual to the Atlantic through Lisbon
Crossed by Da Gama Bridge

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TAGUS

65
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English river
Between Birkenhead and Liverpool
Ends in the Irish Sea
Home of a “beat”
Song “Ferry Cross” it

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MERSEY

66
Q

B.C.’s Fraser River is known for producing this fish

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SALMON

67
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Rises in Spanish Pyrenees
Flows through Toulouse & Bordeaux
Ends in Bay of Biscay

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GARONNE

68
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Chang Jiang, “Long River”
China’s longest
3rd longest in world
Rises in Tibet
Tributaries Wu and Xiang
Three Gorges Dam
Meets Han at Wuhan
Flows into East China Sea at Shanghai
Alligators

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YANGTZE

69
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Flows from Tibet to India to Bangladesh before meeting the Ganges

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BRAHMAPUTRA

70
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Subject of Hillary’s “Ocean to Sky” expedition
Setting of Jean Renoir’s 1951 film “The River”
Site for Jerry Garcia’s ashes (along with Golden Gate Bridge)

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GANGES

71
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Padma in Bangladesh
Rises in Himalayas, flows to Bay of Bengal
Cities include Patna & Allahabad
Personified as Ganga, daughter of Himavat

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GANGES

72
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Water rights shared between India & Bangladesh
Largest river delta in the world
Brahmaputra, Jumna, & Hooghly join it

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GANGES

73
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Bay in the Atlantic between France & Spain
Aka Gascony/Gascogne
Mouth of Loire & Garonne rivers
Bordeaux, Bayonne, Biarritz, & Bilbao are on it
Basque country

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BAY OF BISCAY

74
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Dutch waterway
Joins with IJ at Amsterdam
Also a beer

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AMSTEL

75
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Strait between Queensland and New Guinea

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TORRES STRAIT

76
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Japanese bay on Honshu
Home to Kobe, and shares name with one of Japan’s largest cities

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OSAKA BAY

77
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Plaza in Cairo
Arabic, “Liberation”
aka “Martyr Square”
Heart of anti-Mubarak protests in 2011
Subject of 2013 documentary “The Square”

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TAHRIR SQUARE

78
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Northern Ireland formation
Coastal basalt columns
Big guy’s legendary bridge

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GIANT’S CAUSEWAY

79
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Lake in Banff, Alberta
Named for daughter of Queen Victoria
“Emerald” green glacial lake

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LAKE LOUISE

80
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River in Tuscany
Crossed by Florence’s Ponte Vecchio (“Old Bridge”)
Flooded in 1966, harming much art
Flows into Ligurian Sea near Pisa
Mentioned in “A Room With a View”

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ARNO RIVER

81
Q

Museum and gallery in Florence
Built as an office

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UFFIZI

82
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Desert of northern Chile (“Norte Grande”)
Between Pacific Ocean & Andes Mountains
One of the driest in the world
Mining area, especially copper

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ATACAMA

83
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From Arabic, “desert”
World’s biggest at about 3.3 million square miles, 3500 miles across
Between Maghreb to the north and Sahel to the south
Home of the Tuareg people and Fennec foxes

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SAHARA

84
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Desert on a peninsula
Includes the Empty Quarter, Rub Al-Khali

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ARABIAN DESERT

85
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The Arabian Desert’s “Rub Al-Khali” is known as this

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THE EMPTY QUARTER

86
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Fossil-rich mountains of France & Switzerland
Namesake of geologic period

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JURA

87
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Mountain in the Caucasus
Highest in Russia & highest in Europe

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MT. ELBRUS

88
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White marble campanile (freestanding bell tower)
Construction began in 1174
In 1990s, restoration brought it back to 3.97 degrees off the vertical
Site of some experiments by Galileo

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LEANING TOWER OF PISA
TORRE PENDENTE DE PISA

89
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Italy’s 3rd longest river
Flows through Tuscany & Umbria, with its mouth at Ostia (Tyrrhenian Sea)
Romulus & Remus set adrift on it
In 6th century BCE Horatius destroyed its Pons Sublicius to prevent Etruscan invasion

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TIBER RIVER

90
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River of Rome
Vatican is on its west bank
Ponte Sant’angelo and Castel Sant’angelo, built by Hadrian in 2nd century, overlook it

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TIBER RIVER

91
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Tower in Milan, Italy named for a tire company

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PIRELLI TOWER

92
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Highest mountain in Turkey
Extinct volcano
National symbol for Armenia
Supposed site of Noah’s Ark landing

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ARARAT

93
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Overlooks Cape Town, South Africa
Sometimes covered in a cloudy “cloth”

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TABLE MOUNTAIN

94
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Connects Pakistan to Afghanistan near Kabul and the Peshawar Valley
Strategically important gap in the Spin Ghar mountains

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KHYBER PASS

95
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National Park & resort in Alberta
Canada’s 1st national park, 1887 (originally called “Rocky Mountains”)
North of Jasper
Site of Lake Louise & Bow Lake

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BANFF

96
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Peninsula of Denmark (makes up ~70% of its non-Greenland land)
Borders Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein
Site of a 1916 WWI battle
Also a horse breed

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JUTLAND

97
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Greek mountain
Delphi is on its slope

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MOUNT PARNASSUS

98
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Paris hill where St. Denis was beheaded
Known for its mills, especially Moulin Rouge
Toulouse-Lautrec & Utrillo worked there
Site of the Sacre-Coeur basilica

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MONTMARTRE

99
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Basilica overlooking Montmartre, Paris

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SACRE-COEUR

100
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Arm of the Mediterranean
Mediterranean on the southwest, Tyrrhenian on the southeast
Touches Italian Riviera, Corsica, and a small bit of France
Genoa is on it

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LIGURIAN SEA

101
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One end of the Champs-Elysees
Paris’s largest square
Where Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, & Robespierre were beheaded - also called “Place de la Revolution”
Site of Obelisk of Luxor

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PLACE DE LA CONCORDE

102
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Mountain east of, and overlooking, Jerusalem
Associated with the life of Jesus
Gethsemane is at its foot
Supposedly where Jesus ascended
Important Jewish cemetery - location of M. Begin’s grave

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MOUNT OF OLIVES

103
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Israel’s unicameral legislature
Includes art by Marc Chagall

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KNESSET

104
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Atlantic coastal desert that gives its name to a country
Also extends into parts of Angola & South Africa, touches the Kalahari
Includes a section called the “Skeleton Coast”

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NAMIB

105
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Desert savanna of Botswana, Namibia, & South Africa
Name from Tswana, “Waterless place” or “Great thirst”
Africa’s 2nd-largest desert
Crossed by the Dorsland Trek (1870s)
Home to the San (also called Bushmen) and to meerkats

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KALAHARI

106
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Australia’s largest desert, located in the south
Named for a queen

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GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

107
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Australian desert between the Great Victoria & Great Sandy
Named for a man who got lost and died there in 1874

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GIBSON DESERT

108
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Australian desert in the northwest
Includes parts of Canning Basin
Apt name

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GREAT SANDY DESERT

109
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Mongolian for “desert”
500,000 square miles
Located in the rain shadow of the Himalayas between Inner Mongolia (China) and Mongolia
Home to Bactrian camels

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GOBI DESERT

110
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Africa’s tallest mountain (>20,000 ft.)
Located in Tanzania, near Kenyan border & the equator
Composed of 3 volcanoes, 2 extinct (Mawenzi & Shira) & 1 dormant (Kibo)
Highest peak is Uhuru on Kibo, formerly called “Wilhelm-Spitze”
Scaled by Marangu Route
“Snows of “ it are mentioned in a Hemingway short story title

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KILIMANJARO

111
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2nd tallest mountain in Africa
Shares name with its country

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MOUNT KENYA

112
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Afghanistan’s longest river
Also a province west of Kandahar

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HELMAND

113
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Cave complex in Afghanistan’s Spin Ghar mountains
Site of a 201 siege by U.S. against Al-Qaeda & Osama bin Laden
Rhymes

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TORA BORA

114
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Plateau near Sea of Galilee
Previously part of Syria
Occupied by Israel in Six Day War (1967) and annexed in 1981

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GOLAN HEIGHTS

115
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Japan’s largest lake
Located on Honshu
Pearl growing area

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LAKE BIWA

116
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Alpine range in Italy
Named for a mineral of limestone & magnesium

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DOLOMITES

117
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“Backbone of Italy”
Highest is Corno Grande
Mountains of Umbria & San Marino

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APPENINES

118
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Second highest mountain in the world (>28,000 ft.)
Located in Kashmir, Pakistan
Named for its range (Karakoram)
Also known as “Godwin-Austen” or “Dapsang”

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K2

119
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Mountain range between Pakistan & China
Location of K2
Its “highway” is the highest international highway in the world

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KARAKORAM

120
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Australia’s highest point
Located in the Snowy Mountains of the Australian Alps
Named for Polish hero of the American Revolution

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MOUNT KOSCIUSKO

121
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Antarctica’s highest point (~16,000 ft.)
Overlooks Ronne Shelf
Named for Georgia congressman

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VINSON MASSIF

122
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Name of a Scottish river (and a firth and a dale)
Runs through Glasgow
Source of a horse breed

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RIVER CLYDE

123
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Vatican City building
Begun 300s
1506 Pope Julius II lays new cornerstone
Rebuilt by Bramante, Bernini, Michelangelo (Pieta)
Capacity ~60,000

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ST. PETER’S BASILICA

124
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Venice building
Previously Doge’s chapel
Named for gospel writer whose remains it supposedly contains

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ST. MARK’S BASILICA

125
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Canadian river
Runs from Labrador to the Atlantic
Previously called “Hamilton River”
Named for a British P.M.

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CHURCHILL RIVER

126
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Canadian river
Runs from prairies into Hudson Bay
Named for a governor of Hudson’s Bay Company

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CHURCHILL RIVER

127
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Strait between Baffin Island & Quebec mainland

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HUDSON STRAIT

128
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Bay off of Hudson
Named for explorer Thomas

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JAMES BAY

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