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23 hours ago · Ellesmere Island is the northernmost island of the Arctic Archipelago in Canada's Far North and one of the world's northernmost land masses. It is exceeded in this regard only by neighbouring Greenland, which extends about 60 km (37 mi) closer to the north pole.
- 196,236 km² (75,767 sq mi)
- Northern Canada
- 830 km (516 mi)
- Queen Elizabeth Islands
6 hours ago · The aurora over Fairbanks, Alaska, in January 2016. A giant geomagnetic storm meant the northern lights could be seen across the U.S. and Canada on May 10 and 11.
23 hours ago · A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
- 24,709,000 km² (9,540,000 sq mi) (3rd)
- 23 non-sovereign territories
- 23 sovereign states
- 592,296,233 (2021; 4th)
23 hours ago · In particular, the Hindu Kush region is known as the Earth's "Third Pole" due to the large number of glaciers it contains. They cover an area of around 80,000 km 2 (31,000 sq mi), and have a combined volume of between 3,000-4,700 km 3 . [40]
- 1.309
- 3400 to 37,500 kg-force/cm³
- 5 to 18 kg-force/cm²
