How thick is the ice that covers Antarctica?
The continent Antarctica is almost completely covered with an ice sheet that is about 6,500 feet thick.
The abyssal zone begins at a depth of 6,600 feet and runs to 19,800 feet. It covers 83 percent of the area of oceans and seas. Water temperature in the abyssal zone is about 39 degrees Fahrenheit.
The largest Chinese settlement outside of Asia is San Francisco’s Chinatown district. It covers only about 12 square blocks.
What Homer referred to as “wind-swept Troy” was not what we would call a great city. The city of Troy was a village of some 7 acres.
The USSR was composed of 15 republics: Armenia Lithuania Azerbaijan Moldavia Belorussia Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) Estonia Georgia Tadzhikistan Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Kirghizia Ukraine Latvia Uzbekistan
Founded in the tenth century, the kingdom of Bohemia was located in what is now Czechoslovakia. From 1526 to 1914, it was ruled by the Hapsburg princes of Austria. At the end of World War I, the Czechs of Bohemia and Moravia joined with the Slovaks of Slovakia to form the new Republic of Czechoslovakia….
Tipperary is a county in Munster Province, Ireland. It occupies a broad strip of land between the Shannon and Suir rivers. The Irish name for Tipperary is Contae Tiobraid Arann. It is a long way from most places.