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The French Geodesic Mission to the Equator (French: Expédition géodésique française en Équateur), also called the French Geodesic Mission to Peru and the Spanish-French Geodesic Mission, was an 18th-century expedition to what is now Ecuador carried out for the purpose of performing an arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth's ...
The highest point on the equator is at the elevation of 4,690 metres (15,387 ft), at , found on the southern slopes of Volcán Cayambe [summit 5,790 metres (18,996 ft)] in This is slightly above the snow line and is the only place on the equator where snow lies on the ground.
Cueva de los Tayos is located in the high rainforest, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the Santiago River, and 800 metres (2,600 ft) west of Coangos River.The entrance to the cave has a vertical void of 70 meters and local people were aware of this cave for centuries. [1]
The girl’s burial in the entry gate’s pit is also significant, according to researchers. A similar burial — a woman buried face down in a settlement’s boundary ditch — dating to the late ...
11 ancient canoes were discovered buried in a Wisconsin lake, the oldest dating back 4,500 years ago. The range ages of these canoes may signify they were stored during winters, possibly ...
1862 – Speke discovers the Nile flowing from the northern end of Lake Victoria. [5] 1862 – Ivan Lukin ascends the Yukon to Fort Yukon. [106] 1864 – Samuel Baker discovers "Luta Nzige" (Lake Albert); in the distance he sights the Mountains of the Moon (the Rwenzori). [5] 1865 – Edward Whymper is the first to ascend the Matterhorn. [5]
A man found frozen in a Pennsylvania cave in 1977 has finally been identified, closing the book on a nearly 50-year-long mystery. The Berks County Coroner’s Office identified the remains of the ...
The bones were found near Pelican Rapids, Minnesota on June 16, 1931, during construction on U.S. Route 59. The bones were brought to Albert Jenks at the University of Minnesota, who identified them as the bones of a girl who was 15 or 16 years old, [1] but who had never borne children. The girl had two artifacts—a dagger made from an elk's ...