The largest passenger aircraft now flying and due to enter service in 2007 is the Airbus 380 (manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.)). It has a wingspan of 79.8 m (261 ft 8 in) and a maximum designed take off weight of 560 tonnes (1,235,000 lb). Its maximum fuel capacity is 310,000 litres (81,890 US gallons) and will normally be fitted with around 555 sets depending on interior fit. It is due to enter its first airline service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. Whilst it Continue reading →

The largest fixed 35mm projection screen measures 34.07 m (111.78 ft) in length and 13.84 m (45.41 ft) in height, created and developed by Lotte Cinema (South Korea) in the Lotte Cinema World Tower Superplex G, in Seoul, South Korea, on 3 July 2014. The Lotte Cinema can seat 622 people.

The largest penguin colony in the world is on Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Approximately two million chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) breed on the slopes of the island which is an active volcano. Chinstraps get their name from a thin curved line of black feathers which run under their chin. They are also considered the most numerous penguins in the world with a population of around 12 million, mainly found in the Antarctic.

The Panasonic IMAX Theatre at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia holds the largest fixed projection screen in the world, measuring 35.72m x 29.57 m (117 ft x 97 ft). It opened in September 1996 and can seat 540 people.

The largest permanent coin mural depicts the flag of the Republic of Korea, consists of 110,000 10 won coins, measures 24 m² (258.33 ft²) and was made by Jin Jeonggun (Republic of Korea) in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 16 April 2008.

The largest piano ensemble consisted of 555 participants led by conductor Lee Sun-Young at the ‘555 Fantastic Piano Festival’ organised by Young Chang Co. Ltd (South Korea) at the Incheon Samsan World Gynasium, Incheon, South Korea on October 7 2007 The ensemble featured 348 upright pianos, 31 grand pianos and 176 synthesisers. The concert was held to celebrate the city of Incheon winning the right to host the 2014 Asian Games.

The largest photography competition is 353,768 entries, achieved by Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (Nederlands), at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 competition, from 1 September 2012 to 15 October 2012.

Shinichi Yamamoto (Japan) printed a photograph 145 m (475 ft 8 in) long and 35.6 cm (14 in) wide, after producing a single photographic negative 30.5 m (100 ft) long and 7 cm (2.75 in) wide using a handmade panoramic camera on 18 december 2000.

Jupiter, with an equatorial diameter of 143,884 km (89,405 miles) and a polar diameter of 133,708 km (83,082 miles), is the largest of the eight major planets, with a mass 317.828 times, and a volume 1,323.3 times that of the Earth. It has the shortest period of rotation, resulting in a Jovian day of only 9 hr 55 min 29.69 sec, and it also has more moons than any other planet with 63. The mass of Jupiter, 1.8986×1027 kg, is greater than that of all Continue reading →

Intriguingly, the largest population of camels in the wild, numbering over 200,000 individuals, is found neither in Arabia nor in Mongolia, the traditional homelands of wild camels, but instead in the Australian desert. Camels were imported into Australia from the 1840s until the early 1900s, principally for transportation purposes in Australia’s very hot, arid deserts, but as technology advanced, the camels were not needed so much. Consequently, many were released or escaped into the desert, and have thrived and bred there ever since.