World Record Holders?

The person who answers most of these questions will win 10 points





Greatest volcanic eruption?


Longest glacier?


Driest place?


Deepest gorge?


Largest coral atoll?


Deepest lake?


Largest active volcano?


Largest delta?


Longest fjord?


Most remote island?


Thankyou!|||Greatest volcanic eruption - The greatest volcanic eruption took place in 1815, on the isle of Tambora, a volcano. The volcano threw up 24 cubic miles of ash, lowering the island by 4,100 feet. (92,000 people died.)





Longest glacier - Lambert-Fisher Glacier, Antarctica that is 320 miles in length and a not-so-hot 25 miles in width





Driest place - Atacama Desert, South America





Deepest gorge - Vikos Gorge in northern Greece is the world's deepest canyon in proportion to its width, and at one point measures 2950 feet (900 meters) deep and 3600 feet (1100 meters) wide from rim to rim.





Largest coral atoll - Lifou (land area 1146 km虏) is the largest raised coral atoll of the world





Deepest lake - Lake Baikal, with a depth of 1637 meters (5371 ft).





Largest active volcano - Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano in the world.





Largest delta - Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in India





Longest fjord - Scoresby Sund, Greenland. It is 350 kilometers or 217 miles long and reches depths over 1500 meters.





Most remote uninhabited island - The most remote island is Bouvet Island, an uninhabited and small Norwegian island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The nearest land is the uninhabited Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, over 1,600 km (994 mi) away to the south.





Most remote Inhabited Island - Located about midway between Cape Town, South Africa and Buenos Aires, Argentina lies what is often referred to as the world's most remote inhabited island - Tristan da Cunha.|||Greatest volcanic erruption =1815, Tambora erruption


Longest Glacier = Lambert-Fisher in Antarctica


Driest place= Atacama Desert in Chile


deepest gorge = Annapurna Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal


Largest coral atoll =Ontong Java in the Solomon Islands


Deepest lake = Lake Baikal in Siberia


Largest active volcano = Mauna Loa, Hawaii


Largest Delta = Okavango Delta, Botswana


longest fjord = Scoresby Sund


Most Remote Island = Tristan da Cunha|||In order:


Tambora


Lambert-Fisher Glacier


Atacama Desert


Great Gorge


Saya de Malha Bank


Lake Baikal


Mauna Loa


Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta


Scoresby Sund


Bouvet Island