PRESENTATION OUTLINE
You can see the northern lights from many places at night. The most spectacular northern lights recently recorded in history was the "great geomagnetic storm" on 8/28/1859 and 9/2/1859
Eskimo people believe that the northern lights are actually dead spirits playing football with a walrus head.
Astronauts on the international space station are at the same altitude as the northern lights and see them from the side.
As the sun sets on a full moon, Victoria Falls hosts a rare and beautiful sight as the light from the moon bouncing of the spray creates a rainbow during the night.
Victoria falls was first seen by David Livingstone in 1855. It is 1,708 meters wide and 180 meters high.
It's located in Zambia a town in Southern Africa.
People hang over the edge of Victoria falls when the river flow is at a safe level. Because of the spray from the falls the rainforest at Victoria falls is the only place on earth that rains 24/7
THE HARBER AT RIO DE JANEIRO
It's located in Guanabara Bay in Brazil. It's the second largest bay in Brazil. It's 412 square kilometers. It was discovered by Portuguese seafarer. Rio de Janeiro in Portuguese means "river of January". It is where they are hosting the 2016 Olympics.
Christ the redeemer (the statue at Rio de Janeiro) was built as a symbol of Brazilian Christianity. It took nine years to finish. It's 98 feet tall being the largest Art Deco statue in the world.
The Colorado river runs through the Grand Canyon. There is a rock at the bottom of the canyon that is over 2 billion years old. It's located in Flagstaff, Arizona. You can't buy bottled water in the Grand Canyon, this is because 20% of the parks waste came from plastic water bottles.
Over 770 people have died at Grand Canyon by heart attacks, suicide, accidents, falling, and even some have driven there vehicle into the canyon.
There are legends of ghosts roaming the area, and the most popular one is the "wandering women" She died by suicide in her lodge, she wears a white robe with small flowers on it, and a scarf around her head. They say she wanders around the Canyon, and some park rangers claimed they have seen her.
The Paricutin Volcano is 200 miles west of Mexico City, Mexico. It is the youngest volcano in the northern hemisphere. Two weeks before the growth of The Paricutin Volcano, the villagers of Paricutin heard loud rumblings in the ground.
After only one day, it has already risen the 164 feet, and after a week, it grew to 500 feet. The height of it now is 10,400 feet. The Paricutin Volcano is now a extinct volcano, which means it is no longer active.
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organ in the world. About 10% of the worlds fish species can be found within the reef. The reef is gradually being destroyed by a pest known as the Crown of Thorns Seastar.
Fact: The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system.The Great Barrier Reef is composed of over 2,900 individual reef.
The Great Barrier Reef has over 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres.
Many endangered species have made the reef their home. There are 17 species of sea snakes that live at the reef.
Two Sherpasa (member of a Himalayan people living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet renowned for their skill in mountaineering), Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi, hold the joint record for most Everest ascents. The pair have each managed to reach the summit an impressive 21 times. Phurba reached the top three times in 2007 alone, and Apa has successfully summited the mountain almost every year between 1990 and 2011.
Everest climbs aren’t always the harmonious triumphs you might imagine. In 2013, climbers Ueli Steck, Simone Moro, and Jonathan Griffith found themselves in a violent brawl with Sherpas after allegedly ignoring orders to halt their climb. The Sherpas accused the climbers of getting in their way and causing an avalanche that hit other Sherpas laying ropes downhill. The climbers denied the accusations, and the confrontation turned violent. The Sherpas kicked, punched, and beat the men with rocks, and Moro says one angry Sherpa even threatened to kill him. The fight might have ended considerably worse, but American climber Melissa Arnot warned the trio to flee to the basecamp before the rest formed a mob and stoned them to death. After the incident, a Nepal army official stood witness as both sides signed a peace agreement to settle the dispute.
The first people to climb to the 'top' of Mount Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
