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| 1 | Google Earth ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 44.88 / 10.4242 | Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles (...) | |
| 2 | Equator ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 0.0 / 0.0 | An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel). It is the imaginary line on the spheroid's surface, equidistant from its poles, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres (...) | |
| 3 | Apollo 8 ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 8.1 / -165.0167 | Apollo 8, the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth (...) | |
| 4 | South Pole ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -90.0 / 180.0 | The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole (...) | |
| 5 | Apollo 17 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : 20.1908 / 30.7717 | Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, it was the last use of Apollo hardware for its (...) | |
| 6 | Palomar Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1699 Lat/Lng : 33.3563 / -116.8648 | Palomar Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in San Diego County, California, United States, southeast of Los Angeles, California, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) located in Pasadena, California (...) | |
| 7 | Apollo 16 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -0.7167 / -156.2167 | Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The second of the so-called "J missions," it was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command (...) | |
| 8 | Goddard Space Flight Center ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 38.9965 / -76.8493 | The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC employs approximately 10,000 (...) | |
| 9 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 367 Lat/Lng : 34.2017 / -118.1717 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States, though is often referred to residing in Pasadena, California given its Pasadena zip code (...) | |
| 10 | Pacific Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 0.0 / -160.0 | The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east (...) | |
| 11 | 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 3.316 / 95.854 | The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra and a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 , reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas (...) | |
| 12 | Pago Pago ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : -14.2794 / -170.7006 | Pago Pago (; Samoan: ; pronounced pahng-oh pahng-oh)Harris, Ann G. and Esther Tuttle (2004). Geology of National Parks. Kendall Hunt. Page 604. . is the territorial capital of American Samoa. It is in Maoputasi County on the main island of American Samoa, Tutuila (...) | |
| 13 | Lowell Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2209 Lat/Lng : 35.2028 / -111.6644 | Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 (...) | |
| 14 | Lick Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1276 Lat/Lng : 37.3414 / -121.6428 | The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory, owned and operated by the University of California. It is situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, US (...) | |
| 15 | Extremes on Earth ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 83.6667 / -29.8333 | This article describes extreme locations on Earth. Entries listed in bold are Earth-wide extremes. (...) | |
| 16 | Kīlauea ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1231 Lat/Lng : 19.421 / -155.287 | Kīlauea is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii. Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano is between 300,000 and 600,000 years old and emerged above sea level about 100,000 (...) | |
| 17 | Greenland ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 64.18 / -51.72 | Greenland is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (...) | |
| 18 | Chesapeake Bay ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.2481 / -76.1194 | The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula with its mouth located between Cape Henry and Cape Charles (...) | |
| 19 | 1960 Valdivia earthquake ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 470 Lat/Lng : -38.29 / -73.05 | The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) of 22 May is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Various studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale (...) | |
| 20 | Mauna Loa ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4133 Lat/Lng : 19.4795 / -155.6027 | Mauna Loa (or ; Hawaiian: ;) is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean. The largest subaerial volcano in both mass and volume, Mauna Loa has historically been considered the largest volcano on Earth, dwarfed only by Tamu Massif (...) | |
| 21 | Vanuatu ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : -16.6333 / 168.0167 | Vanuatu (or ; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast (...) | |
| 22 | Tokyo ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 35.6894 / 139.6917 | , officially , one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, has served as the Japanese capital since 1869.http://houseikyoku.sangiin.go.jp/column/column081.htm "There is no laws to define where Japan's capital is. Because Tokyo was built to stabilize East and North (...) | |
| 23 | Blue Origin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 47.4103 / -122.2375 | Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and (...) | |
| 24 | Death Valley National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -83 Lat/Lng : 36.2419 / -116.8258 | Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of (...) | |
| 25 | 2005 Kashmir earthquake ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1362 Lat/Lng : 34.4319 / 73.5369 | The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at on 8 October in Pakistan-administered areas of Kashmir. It was centered near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. It registered a moment magnitude of 7 (...) | |
| 26 | Gobi Desert ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1177 Lat/Lng : 42.59 / 103.43 | The Gobi Desert is a large desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Taklamakan Desert to the west, by the Hexi (...) | |
| 27 | Lincoln Memorial ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 38.8893 / -77.0501 | The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument (...) | |
| 28 | California Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : 34.1386 / -118.1255 | The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as . The Institute is also occasionally referred to as "CIT", most notably in its alma mater, but this is uncommon (...) | |
| 29 | Savai'i ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1739 Lat/Lng : -13.625 / -172.4867 | Savaii is the largest (area 1,694 km2) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoan Islands chain. The island is the fifth largest in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands of Hawaii and Maui (...) | |
| 30 | Boulder, Colorado ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1630 Lat/Lng : 40.015 / -105.2706 | Boulder is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Boulder County, and the 11th most populous municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of above sea level (...) | |
| 31 | Mauna Kea ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4197 Lat/Lng : 19.8207 / -155.4681 | Mauna Kea (or) is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. Its peak is above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii. Most of the mountain is under water, and when measured from its oceanic base, Mauna Kea becomes the tallest mountain in the world measuring over (...) | |
| 32 | New Caledonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 133 Lat/Lng : -21.0714 / 165.3433 | New Caledonia Previously known officially as the "Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies" , then simply as the "Territory of New Caledonia" (French: Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), the official French name is now only Nouvelle-Calédonie (Organic Law of 19 March 1999, article 222 IV – see) (...) | |
| 33 | Burundi ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1995 Lat/Lng : -3.6667 / 29.8167 | Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi (. justice.gov.bi. 25 June 2012 ; , or), is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west (...) | |
| 34 | Kyrgyzstan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 779 Lat/Lng : 42.8667 / 74.6 | Kyrgyzstan (;Or , or with the stress on the first syllable. See J. C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd., 2008). Kyrgyzstan ; or Кыргызстан), officially the Kyrgyz Republic , and also known as Kirghizia, is a sovereign state in Central Asia (...) | |
| 35 | Beijing ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 39.9035 / 116.3876 | (1st)—very high blank5_name_sec1 = License plate prefixes blank5_info_sec1 = (taxis) (outside urban area) (police and authorities) blank6_name_sec1 = Abbreviation blank6_info_sec1 = BJ / (jīng) blank2_name_sec2 = City flowers blank2_info_sec2 =China rose (Rosa chinensis) blank3_name_sec2 = (...) | |
| 36 | Bangalore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 12.9779 / 77.5925 | Bangalore , officially known as Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of over ten million, making it a megacity and the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India. It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau (...) | |
| 37 | Denver ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1615 Lat/Lng : 39.7619 / -104.8811 | Denver , officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains (...) | |
| 38 | Malibu, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 34.0306 / -118.7786 | Malibu (Spanish: Malibú) is a beach city in western Los Angeles County, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles. Known for its Mediterranean climate, a strip of the Malibu coast incorporated in 1991 into the City of Malibu (...) | |
| 39 | Mombasa ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -4.05 / 39.6667 | Mombasa is a seaport city on the coast of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean. It is the country's oldest (circa 900 AD) and second-largest city. Cia.gov. Retrieved on 17 August 2013. (after the capital Nairobi), with an estimated population of about 1.4 million people in 2016 (...) | |
| 40 | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 364 Lat/Lng : -54.25 / -36.75 | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands (...) | |
| 41 | University of California, Davis ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.5371 / -121.7541 | The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university and land-grant university as well as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system (...) | |
| 42 | Panama ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 9.0 / -79.5 | Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is a country in Central America, Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications (M49), United Nations Statistics Division Atlas of Canada National Geographic bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north (...) | |
| 43 | Apollo–Soyuz Test Project ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 21.8667 / -162.75 | The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) (Eksperimentalniy polyot Apollon-Soyuz, lit. "Experimental flight Apollo-Soyuz", commonly referred to by the Soviets as "Soyuz-Apollo"), conducted in July 1975, was the first joint U.S (...) | |
| 44 | Tuvalu ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -8.5208 / 179.1986 | Tuvalu (or), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, situated in Oceania, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (belonging to the Solomons), southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of (...) | |
| 45 | Oxnard, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 34.1914 / -119.1825 | Oxnard is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Located along the coast of Southern California, it is the most populous in Ventura County and the 19th most populous city in California. Incorporated in 1903, the city lies approximately west of downtown Los Angeles and is part of the (...) | |
| 46 | Asheville, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 633 Lat/Lng : 35.58 / -82.5558 | Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 12th-most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 89,121 according to 2016 estimates.https://www.census (...) | |
| 47 | University of California, Berkeley ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 37.8717 / -122.2589 | The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a top-ranked public research university in the United States. Located in the city of Berkeley, it was founded in 1868, and serves as the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the (...) | |
| 48 | Grand Canyon ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 709 Lat/Lng : 36.1 / -113.2333 | The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; , Navajo: Tsékooh Hatsoh, Spanish: Gran Cañón) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is long, up to wide and attains a depth of over a mile (...) | |
| 49 | Colombia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1215 Lat/Lng : 3.8167 / -73.9167 | Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia (Es-republica_de_colombia.ogg), is a country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with (...) | |
| 50 | Detroit ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 42.3314 / -83.0458 | Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States (...) | |
| 51 | Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1524 Lat/Lng : 33.8181 / -106.6592 | The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects (...) | |
| 52 | São Paulo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 765 Lat/Lng : -23.5477 / -46.6364 | São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world (...) | |
| 53 | Bulgaria ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 414 Lat/Lng : 42.65 / 25.4 | Bulgaria (; , tr. '), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (tr. '), is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east (...) | |
| 54 | Minneapolis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 262 Lat/Lng : 44.9802 / -93.2641 | Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2017, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 45th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 422,331 (...) | |
| 55 | Sweden ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 63.0 / 16.0 | Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige), is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the (...) | |
| 56 | Russia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 55.75 / 37.6167 | Russia , officially the Russian Federation"The names Russian Federation and Russia shall be equal". , is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144 (...) | |
| 57 | American Museum of Natural History ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 40.781 / -73.9742 | The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 28 interconnected buildings (...) | |
| 58 | Kraków ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 219 Lat/Lng : 50.0617 / 19.9372 | Kraków , also spelled Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading (...) | |
| 59 | Venezuela ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 7.0 / -65.0 | Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ,Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999) (...) | |
| 60 | Cornell University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 268 Lat/Lng : 42.4485 / -76.4786 | Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the (...) | |
| 61 | Vancouver ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 49.2611 / -123.1139 | Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011 (...) | |
| 62 | Tel Aviv ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 32.0452 / 34.7698 | Tel Aviv is the second most populous city in Israel—after Jerusalem—and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area. Located on the country's Mediterranean coastline and with a population of , it is the economic and technological center of the country (...) | |
| 63 | Sri Lanka ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 6.9 / 79.9 | Sri Lanka (; '; Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea (...) | |
| 64 | Sardinia ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 669 Lat/Lng : 40.0865 / 9.0198 | Sardinia (; , /, Sassarese: Sardhigna, Gallurese: Saldigna, Catalan: Sardenya, Tabarchino: Sardegna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus). It is located west of the Italian Peninsula and to the immediate south of the French island of Corsica (...) | |
| 65 | Myanmar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) | |
| 66 | General Sherman (tree) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2133 Lat/Lng : 36.5819 / -118.7511 | General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth (...) | |
| 67 | Hackensack, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.8894 / -74.0457 | Hackensack is a city in Bergen County in New Jersey, United States, and serves as its county seat., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but it was informally known as Hackensack since at least the 18th century (...) | |
| 68 | France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) | |
| 69 | Kitt Peak National Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2061 Lat/Lng : 31.9583 / -111.5967 | The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona (...) | |
| 70 | Finland ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 64.35 / 26.65 | Finland , officially the Republic of Finland "Republic of Finland", or "" in Finnish, "" in Swedish, and "" in Sami, is the long protocol name, which is however not defined by law. Legislation recognises only the short name (...) | |
| 71 | Philippines ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.5889 / 120.9715 | The Philippines (; or '), officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and (...) | |
| 72 | Thessaloniki ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 40.6472 / 22.9639 | Thessaloniki (Thessaloníki , also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized (...) | |
| 73 | Chernobyl disaster ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 51.3896 / 30.0991 | The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident. It occurred on 25–26 April 1986 in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukrainian Soviet (...) | |
| 74 | Richmond, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 37.9358 / -122.3478 | Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. , El Cerrito Historical Society, June 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Richmond borders the cities of San Pablo, (...) | |
| 75 | Atacama Large Millimeter Array ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5024 Lat/Lng : -23.0193 / -67.7532 | The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths (...) | |
| 76 | Petronas Towers ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 3.1579 / 101.7117 | The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: Menara Petronas, or Menara Berkembar Petronas), are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)'s official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings (...) | |
| 77 | Mount Wilson Observatory ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1664 Lat/Lng : 34.2226 / -118.0617 | The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles (...) | |
| 78 | Mount Tamalpais ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 758 Lat/Lng : 37.9291 / -122.5778 | Mount Tamalpais (; ; Coast Miwok: , known locally as Mount Tam) is a peak in Marin County, California, United States, often considered symbolic of Marin County. Much of Mount Tamalpais is protected within public lands such as Mount Tamalpais State Park, the Marin Municipal Water District watershed, (...) | |
| 79 | Griffith Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 346 Lat/Lng : 34.1186 / -118.3004 | The Griffith Observatory is a facility in Los Angeles, California, sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the (...) | |
| 80 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 39.8238 / -84.0494 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot (...) | |
| 81 | Quneitra ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 935 Lat/Lng : 33.1686 / 35.8699 | Quneitra (also Al Qunaytirah, Qunaitira, or Kuneitra; al-Qunayṭrah) is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. It is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights at an elevation of 1,010 metres (3,313 feet) above sea level (...) | |
| 82 | Moon ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1158 Lat/Lng : 46.7986 / 9.2317 | The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite. It is the fifth-largest natural satellite in the Solar System, and the largest among planetary satellites relative to the size of the planet that it orbits (its primary) (...) | |
| 83 | William S. Burroughs ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 152 Lat/Lng : 38.6903 / -90.2317 | William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature (...) | |
| 84 | Lhasa ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 3656 Lat/Lng : 29.652 / 91.1395 | Lhasa or Chengguan is a district and administrative capital of Lhasa City in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The inner urban area of Lhasa City is equivalent to the administrative borders of Chengguan District, which is part of the wider prefectural Lhasa City (...) | |
| 85 | NASA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.8831 / -77.0164 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research (...) | |
| 86 | Arsia Mons ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -9.2214 / -120.3772 | Arsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. To its north is Pavonis Mons, and north of that is Ascraeus Mons. The tallest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is to its northwest (...) | |
| 87 | NEEMO ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 24.95 / -80.4536 | NEEMO, an acronym for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations,http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NEEMO/index.html is a NASA analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live in Aquarius underwater laboratory, the world's only undersea research station, for up to (...) | |
| 88 | Jodrell Bank Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 53.2363 / -2.3071 | The Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station and from 1966 to 1999, the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories;) hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester (...) | |
| 89 | Extreme points of Earth ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -80.0 / -115.0 | This is a list of extreme points of Earth, the geographical locations that are farther north or south than, higher or lower in elevation than, or farthest inland or out to sea from, any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries (...) | |
| 90 | Vajont Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 717 Lat/Lng : 46.2673 / 12.3293 | The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, 100 km (60 miles) north of Venice, Italy. One of the tallest dams in the world, it is high, wide and thick at the base and wide and thick at the (...) | |
| 91 | St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 40.7586 / -73.9763 | The Cathedral of St. Patrick (commonly called St. Patrick's Cathedral) is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States and a prominent landmark of New York City. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York as well as parish (...) | |
| 92 | Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 347 Lat/Lng : 50.5248 / 6.884 | The Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahr Hills (part of the Eifel) in Bad Münstereifel, Germany. For 29 years the Effelsberg Radio Telescope was the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth. In 2000 it was surpassed by the Robert C (...) | |
| 93 | Lovell Telescope ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 53.2365 / -2.3084 | The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76 (...) | |
| 94 | Stinson Beach, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 37.9006 / -122.6444 | Stinson Beach is a census-designated place in Marin County, California, on the west coast of the United States. Stinson Beach is located east-southeast of Bolinas, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m). The population of the Stinson Beach CDP (census-designated place) was 632 at the 2010 census (...) | |
| 95 | Ceres (dwarf planet) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 0.0 | Ceres (; minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, slightly closer to Mars' orbit. Its diameter is approximately , making it the largest of the minor planets within Neptune's orbit (...) | |
| 96 | Global Volcanism Program ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 38.8888 / -77.026 | The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) documents Earth's volcanoes and their eruptive history over the past 10,000 years. The GVP reports on current eruptions from around the world as well as maintaining a database repository on active volcanoes and their eruptions (...) | |
| 97 | Spirit (rover) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -14.5684 / 175.4726 | Spirit, also known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010. It was one of two rovers of NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004, three weeks before its twin, (...) | |
| 98 | Skylab 2 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 24.75 / -127.0333 | Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1) was the first manned mission to Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station. The mission was launched on a Saturn IB rocket on May 25, 1973, and carried a three-person crew to the station. The name Skylab 2 also refers to the vehicle used for that mission (...) | |
| 99 | World Wide Fund for Nature ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 407 Lat/Lng : 46.417 / 6.2711 | The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment. It was formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada (...) | |
| 100 | 484 Pittsburghia ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 0.0 | Pittsburghia (minor planet designation: Pittsburghia) is an asteroid that is in orbit around the Sun 150 million miles from Earth. It is named in honor of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its scientific and industrial heritage that produced some of the finest astronomy equipment of the time (...) | |
| 101 | Apache Point Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2791 Lat/Lng : 32.7803 / -105.8199 | The Apache Point Observatory (APO; obs. code: 705) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico, United States, approximately south of Cloudcroft. The observatory is operated by New Mexico State University (NMSU) and owned by the Astrophysical Research (...) | |
| 102 | SpaceX ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 33.9207 / -118.3278 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and (...) | |
| 103 | Chelyabinsk meteor ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 314 Lat/Lng : 54.9594 / 60.321 | The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC), with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000–69,000 km/h or 40,000–42,900 mph) (...) | |
| 104 | Phobos (moon) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.0 / -91.0 | Phobos (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/phobos?q=Phobos ; systematic designation:) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. Both moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall (...) | |
| 105 | Antipodes ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -21.4167 / -140.1833 | In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it; the antipodes of a region similarly represent the area opposite it. A pair of points antipodal to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through (...) | |
| 106 | Curiosity (rover) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : -4.5895 / 137.4417 | Curiosity is a car-sized rover designed to explore Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, (...) | |
| 107 | American Geophysical Union ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 38.9147 / -77.0455 | The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 62,000 members from 144 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of (...) | |
| 108 | Phoenix (spacecraft) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 68.15 / -125.9 | Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander landed on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history (...) | |
| 109 | Mars Science Laboratory ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : -4.5895 / 137.4417 | Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The overall objectives include investigating Mars' habitability, studying its climate and geology, and (...) | |
| 110 | Epcot ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 28.3753 / -81.5496 | Epcot is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products division. Inspired by the unrealized concept developed by Walt Disney, the park opened on October 1, 1982 as EPCOT (...) | |
| 111 | Olympus Mons ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 18.4 / -134.0 | Olympus Mons (; Latin for Mount Olympus) is a very large shield volcano on the planet Mars. The volcano has a height of nearly 25 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Olympus Mons is about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea level (...) | |
| 112 | Baikonur Cosmodrome ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 45.92 / 63.342 | Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia. The Cosmodrome is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. The spaceport is located in the desert steppe of Baikonur, about east of the Aral Sea and north of the river Syr Darya (...) | |
| 113 | 2008 TC3 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 499 Lat/Lng : 20.8 / 32.2 | (Catalina Sky Survey temporary designation 8TA9D69) was an , diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of , were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as (...) | |
| 114 | Gemini Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4190 Lat/Lng : 19.8238 / -155.469 | The Gemini Observatory is an astronomical observatory consisting of two 8.1-metre (26.6 ft) telescopes, Gemini North and Gemini South, which are located at two separate sites in Hawaii and Chile, respectively. The twin Gemini telescopes provide almost complete coverage of both the northern and (...) | |
| 115 | 203 Pompeja ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 0.0 | Pompeja (minor planet designation: 203 Pompeja) is a quite large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 25, 1879, in Clinton, New York, and named after Pompeii, the Roman town destroyed in volcanic eruption in AD 79 (...) | |
| 116 | Catalina Sky Survey ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2516 Lat/Lng : 32.417 / -110.7326 | Catalina Sky Survey (CSS; obs. code: 703) is an astronomical survey to discover comets and asteroids. It is conducted at the Steward Observatory's Catalina Station, located near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States (...) | |
| 117 | InSight ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.5 / 136.0 | InSight is a robotic lander designed to study the interior of the planet Mars. The mission launched on 5 May 2018 at 11:05 UTC and is expected to land on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018, where it will deploy a seismometer and burrow a heat probe (...) | |
| 118 | 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 38.322 / 142.369 | The was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately (...) | |
| 119 | NPR ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 38.9021 / -77.0209 | National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. NPR differs from other non-profit membership media organizations, such as AP, in that it was established by an act of (...) | |
| 120 | Ithaca, New York ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 42.4441 / -76.5032 | Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca–Tompkins County metropolitan area. This area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in (...) | |
| 121 | International Union for Conservation of Nature ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 397 Lat/Lng : 46.4154 / 6.278 | The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources (...) | |
| 122 | Alpha Centauri ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 714 Lat/Lng : 17.0 / 24.0 | Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, abbreviated Alf Cen or α Cen) is the star system closest to the Solar System, being from the Sun. It consists of three stars: Alpha Centauri A (also named Rigil Kentaurus) and Alpha Centauri B (also named Toliman) are Sun-like stars (Class G and K), which form the binary (...) | |
| 123 | Desert ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1351 Lat/Lng : -26.6448 / 16.2229 | A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation (...) | |
| 124 | Salton Sea ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : -71 Lat/Lng : 33.333 / -115.8342 | The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in the U.S. state of California's Imperial and Coachella valleys. The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside counties in (...) | |
| 125 | Americas ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 19.0 / -96.0 | The Americas (also collectively called America; , Spanish/Portuguese: América) comprise the totality of the continents of North and South America.Webster's New World College Dictionary, 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio."continent n. 5. a." (1989) Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (...) | |
| 126 | Adansonia digitata ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 298 Lat/Lng : -24.6183 / 31.7869 | Adansonia digitata, the baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent. The long-lived pachycauls are typically found in dry, hot savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, where they dominate the landscape, and reveal the presence of a (...) | |
| 127 | Minnesota ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 410 Lat/Lng : 46.3667 / -94.45 | Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" (...) | |
| 128 | Irvine, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 33.6842 / -117.7925 | Irvine is a master-planned city in Orange County, California, United States in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971 (...) | |
| 129 | Durham University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 54.7728 / -1.5739 | Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a royal charter in 1837. It was one of the first universities to commence tuition in England for more than 600 years, (...) | |
| 130 | Nike, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 45.5093 / -122.8299 | Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area (...) | |
| 131 | JAXA ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 265 Lat/Lng : 35.0006 / 139.0072 | The is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions (...) | |
| 132 | NASA Deep Space Network ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 358 Lat/Lng : 34.2008 / -118.1717 | The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of U.S. spacecraft communication facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions (...) | |
| 133 | Wernher von Braun ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1159 Lat/Lng : 47.5156 / 10.4008 | Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German (and, later, American) aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the father of rocket technology and space science in the United (...) | |
| 134 | Spaceship Earth (Epcot) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 28.3753 / -81.5494 | Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere that serves as the symbolic structure of Epcot, at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is also the name of the dark ride attraction that is housed within the sphere that takes guests on a time machine-themed experience using the Omnimover system (...) | |
| 135 | Mars Exploration Rover ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -14.6 / 175.5 | NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars. It began in 2003 with the launch of the two rovers: MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity—to explore the Martian surface and geology; both landed (...) | |
| 136 | Southern Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -77.8333 / 166.6667 | The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. As such, it is regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions: smaller (...) | |
| 137 | Arctic Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 70.3256 / -148.7114 | The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it a mediterranean sea or an estuary (...) | |
| 138 | 206 Hersilia ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 0.0 | Hersilia (minor planet designation: 206 Hersilia) is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 13, 1879, in Clinton, New York. The asteroid was named after Hersilia, Roman wife of Romulus. It is classified as a primitive, dark carbon-rich C-type asteroid (...) | |
| 139 | Southeast Asia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 12.0 / 105.1 | Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of Japan and China, east of India, west of Papua New Guinea, and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of (...) | |
| 140 | Tamu Massif ![]() FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 33.0 / 158.0 | Tamu Massif is an extinct submarine shield volcano located in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The possibility of its nature as a single volcano was announced on 5 September 2013, which, if corroborated, would make Tamu Massif the largest known volcano on Earth (...) | |
| 141 | University of Arizona ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 751 Lat/Lng : 32.2317 / -110.9519 | The University of Arizona (also referred to as Arizona, U of A, or UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. , the university enrolls 44,831 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of (...) | |
| 142 | Phaethontis quadrangle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -47.5 / -150.0 | The Phaethontis quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Phaethontis quadrangle is also referred to as MC-24 (Mars Chart-24). The name comes from Phaethon, the son of Helios.Blunck, J. 1982 (...) | |
| 143 | Sikeston, Missouri ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 36.8794 / -89.5853 | Sikeston is a city located both in southern Scott County and northern New Madrid County, in the state of Missouri. It is situated just north of the "Missouri Bootheel", although many locals consider Sikeston a part of it. By way of Interstate 55, Interstate 57, and U.S (...) | |
| 144 | World Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8989 / -77.0425 | The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA) (...) | |
| 145 | From the Earth to the Moon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 27.1167 / -82.15 | From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian (...) | |
| 146 | Qin Shi Huang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 511 Lat/Lng : 34.3813 / 109.2536 | Qin Shi Huang (; 18 February 25910 September 210) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China. He was born Ying Zheng or Zhao Zheng , a prince of the state of Qin. He became Zheng, the King of Qin when he was thirteen, then China's first emperor when he was 38 (...) | |
| 147 | 2016 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 30.6004 / 114.6192 | 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International (...) | |
| 148 | Utah ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2119 Lat/Lng : 40.69 / -111.4426 | Utah (help=no) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States (...) | |
| 149 | Hobby–Eberly Telescope ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2011 Lat/Lng : 30.6814 / -104.0147 | The Hobby–Eberly Telescope (HET) is a 10-meter (30-foot) aperture telescope located at the McDonald Observatory. It is one of the largest optical telescopes in the world and combines a number of features that differentiate it from most telescope designs, resulting in greatly lowered construction (...) | |
| 150 | Catholic Church ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 41.9022 / 12.4534 | The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide . As the world's "oldest continuously functioning international institution"Mark A. Noll (...) | |
| 151 | Wilhelm Reich ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 474 Lat/Lng : 44.991 / -70.7139 | Wilhelm Reich (; ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.Danto 2007, p. . The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (...) | |
| 152 | Thar Desert ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 27.2598 / 72.14 | The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 17th largest desert, and the world's 9th largest subtropical desert (...) | |
| 153 | History of Australia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 528 Lat/Lng : -25.35 / 131.2333 | The history of Australia is the history of the area and people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies. Aboriginal Australians arrived on the Australian mainland by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago (...) | |
| 154 | Exploration of Mars ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : -4.5895 / 137.4417 | The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a dramatic increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and habitability potential (...) | |
| 155 | Scientology ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1908 Lat/Lng : 35.5117 / -104.58 | Scientology is a body of religious beliefs and practices launched in May 1952 by American author L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86). Hubbard initially developed a program of ideas called Dianetics, which was distributed through the Dianetics Foundation (...) | |
| 156 | John F. Kennedy ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 38.8815 / -77.0715 | John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 (...) | |
| 157 | Joseph Smith ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 162 Lat/Lng : 40.5405 / -91.3924 | Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, he published the Book of Mormon, and he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present (...) | |
| 158 | Millennium Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 41.8827 / -87.6227 | Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, US, and originally intended to celebrate the third millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a section of northwestern Grant Park (...) | |
| 159 | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 31.144 / 121.657 | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, officially Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and informally known as Disney Parks, was one of The Walt Disney Company's four major business segments and a subsidiary. The company was responsible for the conception, building, and managing of Disney theme (...) | |
| 160 | Rajneesh ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 18.5375 / 73.8869 | Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho , was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and (...) | |
| 161 | Deepwater Horizon oil spill ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 28.7381 / -88.3659 | The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill/leak, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest (...) | |
| 162 | Oklahoma ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 399 Lat/Lng : 35.5167 / -97.6 | Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, Texas on the south, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest (...) | |
| 163 | Phoenicia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 34.1236 / 35.6511 | Phoenicia (;. Collins English Dictionary. from the , ') was a thalassocratic, ancient Semitic-speaking Mediterranean civilization that originated in the Levant in the west of the Fertile Crescent. Scholars generally agree that it included the coastal areas of today's Lebanon, northern Israel and (...) | |
| 164 | City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 31.3222 / 45.6361 | A city is a large human settlement.Goodall, B. (1987) The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. London: Routledge (...) | |
| 165 | Apple Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 37.3318 / -122.0312 | Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal (...) | |
| 166 | Tharsis Montes ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 1.57 / -112.58 | The Tharsis Montes are three large shield volcanoes in the Tharsis region of the planet Mars. From north to south, the volcanoes are Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons and Arsia Mons. Mons (plural montes) is the Latin word for mountain; it is a descriptor term used in astrogeology for mountainous features (...) | |
| 167 | Joseph Beuys ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 54.1181 / 8.3667 | Joseph Beuys (; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in (...) | |
| 168 | Google Maps ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 849 Lat/Lng : 32.1497 / -110.8358 | Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (in beta), or public transportation (...) | |
| 169 | 114 Kassandra ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 0.0 | Kassandra (minor planet designation: 114 Kassandra) is a large and dark main-belt asteroid. It belongs to the rare class T. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 23, 1871, and is named after Cassandra, the prophetess in the tales of the Trojan War (...) | |
| 170 | Omega SA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 437 Lat/Lng : 47.1435 / 7.2601 | Omega SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Formally operating as the La Generale Watch Co, founded in 1848, later incorporating the name Omega in 1903. Britain's Royal Flying Corps chose Omega watches in 1917 as its official timekeepers for its combat units, as did the (...) | |
| 171 | 1620 Geographos ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 1.0 / 0.0 | 1620 Geographos , provisional designation , is a highly elongated, stony asteroid, near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, with a mean-diameter of approximately 2.5 kilometers. It was discovered on 14 September 1951, by astronomers Albert George Wilson and Rudolph (...) | |
| 172 | Joseph Fielding Smith ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1451 Lat/Lng : 40.7772 / -111.858 | Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. (July 19, 1876 – July 2, 1972) was an American religious leader and writer who served as the tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1970 until his death in 1972. He was the son of Joseph F (...) | |
| 173 | Milutin Milanković ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 45.4857 / 18.9892 | Milutin Milanković (; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science. Milanković gave two fundamental contributions to global science (...) | |
| 174 | Isthmus of Panama ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 274 Lat/Lng : 8.6667 / -80.0 | The Isthmus of Panama , also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien , is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. It contains the country of Panama and the Panama Canal (...) | |
| 175 | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 51.5603 / 9.9494 | The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (abbreviation: MPS;) is a research institute in astronomy and astrophysics located in Göttingen, Germany, where it relocated in February 2014 from the nearby village of Lindau (...) | |
| 176 | Wardenclyffe Tower ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.9476 / -72.8982 | Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901–1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to (...) | |
| 177 | Lebanon, Kentucky ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 241 Lat/Lng : 37.5706 / -85.2564 | Lebanon is a home rule-class city in Marion County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 6,331 at the 2010 census. It is the seat of its county. Lebanon is located in central Kentucky, southeast of Louisville. A national cemetery is located nearby (...) | |
| 178 | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -65.35 / 67.9667 | The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation organization based in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, in the United States. Sea Shepherd uses direct action tactics and information campaigns to protect marine life and inform the public of their plight (...) | |
| 179 | Aeolis quadrangle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -14.5718 / 175.4785 | The Aeolis quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Aeolis quadrangle is also referred to as MC-23 (Mars Chart-23).Davies, M.E.; Batson, R.M.; Wu, S.S.C. "Geodesy and Cartography" in Kieffer, H.H (...) | |
| 180 | California's Great America ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 37.3959 / -121.9722 | California's Great America (formerly known as Marriott's Great America and Paramount's Great America) is a amusement park located in Santa Clara, California. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation (...) | |
| 181 | Giordano Bruno ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 52.5098 / 13.376 | Giordano Bruno (; ; ; born Filippo Bruno, 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist.Bruno was a mathematician and philosopher, but is not considered an astronomer by the modern astronomical community, as there is no record of (...) | |
| 182 | Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 40.5779 / -75.5315 | Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement and water park owned and operated by Cedar Fair and located in between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Emmaus, Pennsylvania. The park features seven roller coasters, other adult and children's rides, and a waterpark, Wildwater Kingdom (...) | |
| 183 | Los Angeles City Hall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 34.0536 / -118.243 | Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council (...) | |
| 184 | Greensburg, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 689 Lat/Lng : 37.6044 / -99.2936 | Greensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 777, and before the tornado, in 2000 the population was 1,544. In the evening of May 4, 2007, Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado that traveled rapidly through (...) | |
| 185 | 243 Ida ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 0.0 | Ida (; minor planet designation: 243 Ida) is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory and named after a nymph from Greek mythology (...) | |
| 186 | Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 160 Lat/Lng : 34.5783 / -120.6253 | Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6, pronounced "Slick Six") at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is a launch pad and support area. The site was originally developed for the Titan III and Manned Orbiting Laboratory, which was cancelled before construction of SLC-6 was complete (...) | |
| 187 | Luverne, Minnesota ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 451 Lat/Lng : 43.6558 / -96.2103 | Luverne is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States, along the Rock River. The population was 4,745 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat. It is one of four towns profiled in the 2007 Ken Burns documentary The War. It is the main setting for the second season of the TV show Fargo. (...) | |
| 188 | Biome ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -0.0167 / -48.4667 | A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate (...) | |
| 189 | SES S.A. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 277 Lat/Lng : 49.6942 / 6.33 | SES S.A. is a communications satellite owner and operator providing video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions, with a mission to “connect, enable, and enrich”. SES Company Brochure (...) | |
| 190 | Terra Sirenum ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -40.82 / -159.76 | Terra Sirenum is named after the Sirens who were birds with the heads of girls. In the Odyssey these girls captured passing seamen and killed them.Blunck, J. 1982. Mars and its Satellites. Exposition Press. Smithtown, N.Y. Terra Sirenum is a large region in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars (...) | |
| 191 | Disney's Animal Kingdom ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 28.3579 / -81.5905 | Disney's Animal Kingdom is a zoological theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products division, it is the largest theme park in the world, covering (...) | |
| 192 | Lakes on Mars ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 400 Lat/Lng : -15.0 / -67.5 | In summer 1965, the first close-up images from Mars showed a cratered desert with no signs of water.Snyder, C., V. Moroz. 1992. Spacecraft exploration of Mars. In Kieffer, H., B. Jakosky, C. Snyder, M. Matthews, (eds). 1992. Mars. University of Arizona Press. Tucson (...) | |
| 193 | Pentagram ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 751 Lat/Lng : 42.8795 / 74.6001 | A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle or star pentagon) is the shape of a five-pointed star. Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia, and are used today as a symbol of faith by many Wiccans, akin to the use of the cross by Christians and the Star of David (...) | |
| 194 | 2015 in science ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 11.5265 / 90.4295 | A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2015. Gene editing based on CRISPR got significantly improved. A new human-like species, Homo naledi, was first described. Gravitational waves were observed for the first time (announced publicly in 2016), and dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres were (...) | |
| 195 | Field Museum of Natural History ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 200 Lat/Lng : 41.8664 / -87.6168 | The Field Museum of Natural History, also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in the city of Chicago, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum maintains its status as a premier natural history museum through the size and quality of its educational and (...) | |
| 196 | Renewable energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.3131 / 126.6128 | Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water (...) | |
| 197 | Quneitra Governorate ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 944 Lat/Lng : 33.126 / 35.824 | Quneitra Governorate (/ ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Al-Qunayṭrah) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in southern Syria, notable for the location of the Golan Heights. The governorate borders the countries of Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, and the Syrian governorates of Daraa (...) | |
| 198 | Ceres ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1266 Lat/Lng : -23.6833 / 29.15 | Ceres most commonly refers to: * Ceres (dwarf planet), closest of the five identified dwarf planets; the only asteroid that is a dwarf planet * Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture Ceres may also refer to: (...) | |
| 199 | Carbon capture and storage ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 567 Lat/Lng : -35.31 / 149.14 | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) (or carbon capture and sequestration or carbon control and sequestration) is the process of capturing waste carbon dioxide from large point sources, such as fossil fuel power plants, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the (...) | |
| 200 | Pan-STARRS ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3046 Lat/Lng : 20.7073 / -156.2558 | The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS 1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS 2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, USA, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a (...) | |