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

The Corinth Canal, Greece

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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

Lugano, Switzerland

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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


Antarctica

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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

Glass Beach, Hawaii

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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

Masada, Israel

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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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