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Glacier and Other Facts
Glacier and Other Facts
Glacier and Other Facts
ANIMALS
Baffin Island, Canada is home to Mount Thor, the world's tallest vertical cliff. In fact,
it's steeper than vertical, with a 105-degree overhang.
Lechuguilla Cave
Credit: NPSA
Length: 128 miles (206 kilometers)
Location: New Mexico, USA
Lechuguilla Cave is the deepest limestone cave in the United States, containing
formations and microbes found nowhere else in the world.
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Amazon Rainforest!
1. The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest. Covering over 5.5 million
square kilometres, it's so big that the UK and Ireland would fit into it 17 times!
2. The Amazon is found in South America, spanning across Brazil, Bolivia, Peru,
Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
3. Running through the north of the rainforest is the Amazon river. Flowing a length
of around6,400km, it is the second longest river in the world. The longest is the river
Nile, stretching an even longer 6,650km!
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