Geographical facts that surprise you (ranked, MBA, diversity)

[arr430]

Originally Posted by manitopiaaa

It does deviate in Guymon though: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/35.3...37.0430812!3e0

That deviation is a new bypass. The original road went straight through, next to the railway..

[averysgore]

I was surprised that eastern Ethiopia is east of western Iran.

[arr430]

it always surprises me that Manila is north of Bangkok

[Davy-040]

Most Western point of Angola is located West of Rome.

[Corey the Otter]

Chicago is the same latitude as Rome.

[saybanana]

Fun fact. Hawaii has the tallest mountain and volcano on earth from sea floor to summit. A lot of islands started from under the sea and just added meter after meter over many years.

[arr430]

I noticed that yesterday; the high temperature in Karachi was 103-F and the low in Quetta was 39-F. They are both major cities in Pakistan, just 300 miles apart, and not reallly unual for the season...

[Acajack]

Halifax, the capital and largest city (about 400,000 people) of the province of Nova Scotia, on Canada's east coast, officially includes within its limits an island called Sable Island which is located almost 300 km east of it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The uninhabited island is about 35 sq km of dunes, grasslands and beaches.

It is home to a population of about 250 wild horses, known as Sable Island horses. The horses are short, stunted (likely due to in-breeding) and are among the shortest races of horse in the world.

According to legend the horses ended up there after swimming from shipwrecks that took place around the island.

But apparently they are the result of a deliberate implantation, that took place a couple of hundred years ago.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Acajack

According to legend the horses ended up there after swimming from shipwrecks that took place around the island.

But apparently they are the result of a deliberate implantation, that took place a couple of hundred years ago.

Isn't there a Stompin' Tom song about Sable Island? Or is that about Entry Island? Where are the Magdalenes? They featured in that song.

Separately, another geo fact, I never realized that a lot of Scotland is on the same latitude as a lot of Norway. I guess the Vikings knew that.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Isn't there a Stompin' Tom song about Sable Island? Or is that about Entry Island? Where are the Magdalenes? They featured in that song.
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I am not familiar with that song, though Stompin' Tom was from Prince Edward Island, and the Magdalen Islands (Îles-de-la-Madeleine) are located near PEI in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, even though they are part of Québec.

And yes there is an island there called Île d'Entrée (or Île de la Grande-Entrée?), so that's likely what the song is about.