Check out my new book on Amazon- The Ultimate Book of Geography Oddities.
Prepare to be taken on a whirlwind journey through more than 1,000 of the world’s most surprising, unbelievable and downright bizarre geographical curiosities. This is the most extensive, thoroughly-researched and mind-blowing collection of geography oddities ever written.
Did you know:
- New York City is farther south than Rome.
- The Himalayas only began to form after the dinosaurs went extinct.
- For centuries, Brazil’s northernmost point was believed to be the estuary of the Oiapoque River. In 1998, an expedition discovered that Brazil’s northernmost point is actually Monte Caburai, which is located 84 kilometres farther north and almost 1,000 kilometres farther inland.
- Two African national capitals are the same word in different languages. Libreville, the capital of Gabon, is French for ‘Freetown’, while the capital of Sierra Leone is also called Freetown.
In the book, you’ll learn about:
- A three-dimensional border that once existed. People would traverse the border by moving vertically up and down between storeys.
- A country whose highest building was constructed back in the ninth century.
- A settlement that appears on virtually all globes despite not having a permanent population.
- A country that has lost 99.999% of its former territory.
The Digital Labyrinth 