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Deserts
Nearly one eighth of the world's land surface is desert. Each day, the world's desert is increase by 160 square kilometers.Caves
In Mammoth Caves National Park, in the United States, there is a cave system with nearly 300 kilometers of passages already explored.
In the Carlsbard Caverns, New Mexico, there is a cave 77 meters high and 550 meters across.
Ice and Water
About 10% of the earth's land surface is covered with ice.
There is a place on the Antarctic continent where the land (under the ice cap) is 2,468 meters below sea level.
Greenland, the world's largest island (not counting Australia) is covered by a thick ice cap; there may in fact be a group of several islands underneath.
The coldest place in the world is Vostok, in Antarctica. Temperatures of -88 Celcius Degree have been recorded. (The world's hottest recorded temperature was 58 Celcius Degree at Al 'Aziziyah', in Libya.
The largest iceberg ever seen was 335 kilometers and 97 kilometers wide-larger than Belgium.
More than 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water.
Mountains
The world's tallest mountain from base to summit is not Everest. it is Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, whose total height is 10.203 meters (including 5,998 meters below surface of the sea).
The highest mountain which is completely below the surface of the sea is between Samoa and New Zealand - it is 8,690 meters high.
Rivers, Lakes and Waterfalls
The world's longest rivers, the Amazon and the Nile, are both about 6,400 kilometers long from source to mouth.
The biggest lake in the world is the Caspian Sea.
The biggest lake in a lake is Manitou lake (with an area of more than 100 square kilometers), on Manitou island in Lake Huron, North America.
The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela: the total drop is 979 meters.
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