Of the major landmasses of earth, Australia is the only one to lack a major mountain range. The highest point on its mainland is the summit of Mount Kosciuszko, at 2,229 m above sea level. Australia’s mean elevation is just over 200 m above sea level, not including its outlying islands.
The record for the longest flying disc throw caught by a dog is 118.9 m (390 ft) By Mark Molnar to Cheyenne-Ashley Whippet (both USA) in Pasadena, California, USA on 12 October 1994.
The record for the most consecutive eclipses completed with a footbag is 26 and was set by Alex Zerbe (USA) on the set of L’Ete De Tous Les Records, Biscarrosse, France on 30 June 2004. Send gen guidelines and get them to contact http://worldfootbag.com/ for specifics.
The furthest javelin throw in Carl Lewis Athletics 2000 was achieved by Tom Duncan (USA) who successfully threw a javelin 87.03 m on the Game Boy/Game Boy Color. Duncan achieved the feat on 24 December 2006, thus rounding off an incredibly successful year of video game record-breaking with another superlative sports record.
The farthest distance that a lost pet dog has found his way home occurred in 1979 when Jimpa, a labrador/boxer cross, turned up at his old home in Pimpinio, Victoria, Australia after walking 3,218 km (2,000 miles) across Australia. His owner, Warren Dumesney (Australia), had taken the dog with him 14 months earlier when he went to work on a farm at Nyabing, Western Australia. During his trek the dog negotiated the almost waterless Nullarbor Plain.
The area on Earth considered to have the greatest biodiversity is the Tropical Andes region covering 1,258,000 km² (485,716 miles²) and running through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and a small area of northern Argentina. So far, 45,000 species of vascular plants have been described (15-17% of world’s species) as well as 1,666 bird species, 414 mammal species and 1,309 reptile and amphibian species. The Tropical Andes is called an environmental hotspot which is a concept used to determine priorities among terrestrial ecosystems. British
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The greatest distance covered on inline skates in 24 hours is 455.55 km (283.07 miles), by Kimberly Ames (USA) at Portland, Oregon, USA, on 2 October 1994. Guidelines saved under I.
Thomas Colville (France) sailed a record 628.5 nautical miles (1,163.9 km; 723.2 miles) in his 105-ft trimaran Sodebo on 7 December 2008, beating his own record set the year before of 619 nautical miles (1,146.3 km; 712.2 miles).
Most astronomers now believe that the universe began around 12 billion years ago in a cataclysmic explosion we call the Big Bang. All of the matter and energy in the universe had its origins in this event, along with time itself. One second after the Big Bang, the temperature was around ten thousand million degrees, or around 600 times hotter than the interior of the Sun.
Most astronomers now believe that, 4.5 billion years ago, a planet the size of Mars collided with the young Earth. Some of the debris from this cataclysm went into orbit around the Earth and collected together under its own gravity to form the Moon. The effect of this impact would have been absolutely devastating to the Earth. The entire crust of the planet would probably have been blasted off into space, leaving behind an Earth whose entire surface was an ocean of molten magma.