The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth
with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of
Corinth and separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, thus effectively
making the former peninsula an island. The builders dug the canal through the
Isthmus at sea level no locks are employed. It is 6.4 kilometres in length and only 21.4 metres wide at its base, making it impassable for
most modern ships. It now has little economic importance. Source
Lugano is a city in southern Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 61,837 as of December 2012, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. It is the 9th largest city of Switzerland by population, the largest city in Ticino, and the largest city with an Italian speaking majority outside of Italy. Source
Antarcticais Earth's
southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in
the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic
Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2,
it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America,
and South America. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia.
About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1.9 kilometres
in thickness, which extends to all but
the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula. Source
Glass Beach is a beach in Hanapepe,
an industrial area in Kauai, Hawaii
that is made of sea glass. It is in Hanapepe Bay, near Port Allen Harbor. The
beach's regular rock is basalt, but the sea glass formed after years of
discarded glass. There are similar beaches
in Fort Bragg, California and Benicia, California. Source
Masada is an ancient fortification in the Southern
District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Herod the
Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37
and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman
Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide
of the 960 Sicarri rebels and their families hiding there. Masada is located 20
kilometres east of Arad. Source
Vietnam Vietnamese pronunciation officially
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,
is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With
an estimated 90.0 million inhabitants as of 2013, it is the world's 13th-most-populous
country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. Its capital city has been Hanoi
since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976. Source
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