Showing posts with label Places. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Places. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Countries that do not have snakes

Snakes are legless carnivorous reptiles. There are about 2,900 species of snakes in the world. They live almost everywhere, in oceans, lakes, deserts, forests. Snakes are found on every continent except Antartica. Ireland, Iceland, and New Zealand are the islands that do not have snakes.

Countries without airport

There are 5 countries in the world that do not have airport within their boundaries and all these countries are in Europe. Where do people in these countries go to board a plane. Let's take a look about this information.
  • Liechtenstein The nearest airport is St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport in Switzerland, where there is not and has not been any passport check. Liechtenstein only has a heliport in the southern town of Shaan.

  • Andorra The nearest airports are in Barcelona, Toulouse and Girona. Andorra is the largest country in the world not to have an airport.

  • Vatican City The nearest airport to the Vatican City is Rome. It would be physically impossible to fit a whole airport in this country.

  • San Marino The nearest airport is in Rimini, north east of the country. San Marino only has a heliport located at Borgo Maggiore.

  • Monaco The nearest airport to Monaco is Cote d'Azur Airport in Nice, France (source Transport in Monaco). Monaco only has a heliport located in the Monagasque district of Fontvieille.

Skeleton Coast - The Land God Made in Anger

The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia and south of Angola. The Bushmen of the Namibian interior called the region "The Land God Made in Anger", while Portuguese sailors once referred to it as "The Gates of Hell". The mystery and mightiness of this area is largely due to the dense coastal fog for much of the year, and bones scattered on its beaches. The winds blow from land to sea, rain fall rarely exceeds 10mm annually (.39 inches) and the climate is inhospitable. There is a constant, heavy surf on the beaches.
In the days of human-powered boats, sailors get pushed ashore through the surf and find themselves impossible to launch from the shore. The only way out was by going through a marsh hundreds of miles long through the world's harshest desert. All along the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, in southwestern Africa, you see a vast number of dead ships both ancient and modern. In many cases, all the remains of the vessels now stand far from the sea.
The coast is generally flat, occasionally relieved by rocky outcrops. The southern section consists of gravel plains, while north of Terrace Bay the landscape is dominated by high sand dunes. Evidence of some human occupation, in the form of the Strandloper people in the past, is evidenced by shell middens of white mussels found in portions of the Skeleton Coast. The coast has been the subject of a number of wildlife documentaries, particularly about adaptations to extreme aridity. Many of the plant and insect species of the sand dune systems depend for their moisture on the thick sea fogs which engulf the coast and windblown detritus from the interior as food. The desert bird assemblages have been studied in terms of their thermoregulation, coloration, breeding strategies and nomadism.
The riverbeds further inland are home to baboons, giraffes, lions, black rhinoceros and springbok. The animals get most of their water from wells dug by the baboons or elephants.