GEOGRAPHICAL FACTS
The longest river in the world is the Mississippi-Missouri. 4060 miles in length. The largest river basin is that of the Amazon, 2,702.800 square miles. The highest mountain is Mount Ev erest, 29.002 ft. The largest lake is Lake Superior. 31.200 square miles. The largest island is Greenland. 838 000 square miles. The densest population is found in Java (817 Io the square miles), and England (750 to the square mile). The largest city in the world is London (•‘Greater London." (8.204,000).) The most southerly- town is Magallanes (Punta Arena), in Chile, near Cape Horn. The important towns on (or very near) the Equator are Quito. Ecuador; Nairobi, in Kenya; and Singapore. Straits Settlement. The hottest regions in the world are the North-West Sahara, the coasts of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and the Thar (desert) of North-West India. Here shade temperatures frequently rise to 130 degrees Fahrenheit. North-West Australia has the highest readings in the Southern Hemisphere. The coldest region in the world is that round Verkhoyansk, in NorthEast Siberia, where temperatures of 85 degrees below zero have been recorded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 11
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