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North Shore City, New Zealand 4 × 400 m relay: 3:05.84 New Zealand Shaun Farrell Nick Cowan Darren Dale Mark Keddell: 21 August 1993 World Championships: Stuttgart, Germany 4 × 800 m relay: 7:27.2 h: Stephen Lunn Dick Tayler Stuart Melville Bruce Hunter: 17 March 1971 Dunedin, New Zealand 4 × 1500 m relay: 14:50.2 h: Stuart Melville Rod ...
Frying Pan Lake. Frying Pan Lake (renamed Waimangu Cauldron in 1963 [1] though not widely used) is the world's largest hot spring. [2][3] It is located in the Echo Crater of the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand and its acidic water maintains a temperature of about 50 to 60 °C (122–140 °F). [1] The Lake covers 38,000 square metres ...
A hot pool on the Artist's Palette. The lowest terrace at Orakei Korako is the jade-green Emerald Terrace, the largest of its kind in New Zealand since the presumed destruction of the famed Pink and White Terraces in the Mount Tarawera eruption of 1886. However, researchers recently rediscovered the Pink and White Terrace locations.
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [3] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...
The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States. [1] For few years, a former record that was measured in Libya had been in place, until it was decertified in 2012 based on evidence that it was an erroneous reading.
The highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded may have been an alleged reading of 93.9 °C (201.0 °F) at Furnace Creek, California, United States, on 15 July 1972. [7] In 2011, a ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) was recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan. [8] The theoretical maximum possible ground surface temperature has been ...
Wolfe Glick (born December 6, 1995), [4] also known as Wolfey or WolfeyVGC, is an American competitive Pokémon player, streamer and YouTuber. He is the 2016 World Champion of the official Pokémon Video Game Championships (VGC) format, [5] and has won numerous other VGC competitions. Glick was also one of the first people to have completed a ...
Augmented reality, location-based game. Pokémon Go (stylized as Pokémon GO) is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game, part of the Pokémon franchise, developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. It uses mobile devices with GPS to locate, capture, train, and battle ...