Where is the Mosquito Coast?
The Mosquito Coast is also known as The Spanish Costa de Mosquitos.
It is a 40-mile-wide band along the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras.
It follows the Caribbean Sea for about 225 miles.
Troy was located in present-day Turkey at the mound now called Hissarlik, about 4 miles from the mouth of the Dardanelles. Also known as Ilium, hence the Greek epic set during the Trojan War is called The Iliad, Troy was destroyed at the end of that war (c. 1200 B.c.). It was first excavated by…
The Pole of Inaccessibility is the point on the continent of Antarctica farthest in all directions from the seas that surround it. The site lies on the Polar Plateau and is occupied by a Soviet meteorological research station. The term Pole of Inaccessibility is also sometimes used to describe the point in the Arctic Ocean…
Asia probably got its name from the Assyrian asu, meaning “sunrise, east.” Asu originally referred only to the east coast of the Aegean Sea but gradually came to include the whole continent.
The people of the country Persia in southwestern Asia always called their homeland Iran, or “Land of the Aryans.” But Westerners started calling it Persia in the sixth century B.C., taking the name from Persis, or Parsa (modern Fars), a region of southern Iran. In 1935, the country’s government officially requested that the nation be…
The United States has about 36,000 acres in Cuba. The United States has a naval base at Guantanamo Bay near the western end of the south coast of Cuba, 572 miles from Havana. The United States has leased the site since 1903, despite pressure from Fidel Castro’s government to leave.
In the traditional list, there are seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. However, Europe and Asia are sometimes considered a single continent, Eurasia, making only six. Asia is the largest continent, comprising about 17 million square miles. Australia is the smallest, comprising only about 3 million square miles.