Places Around the World

Patricia P. (United States of America)
Places around the World
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  1. Patagonia
    region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic
  2. Sahara
    the world's largest desert in northern Africa
  3. Tierra del Fuego
    an archipelago off southern South America
  4. Cape Horn
    a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego)
  5. Cape Hatteras
    a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina
  6. Cape of Good Hope
    a point of land in southwestern South Africa
  7. Cape Cod
    a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area
  8. Cape May
    a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean
  9. Mount Shasta
    a volcanic mountain peak in the Cascade Range in northern California (14,162 feet high)
  10. Mount McKinley
    a mountain in south central Alaska
  11. Mount Everest
    a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)
  12. Martinique
    an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands
  13. Gibraltar
    location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
  14. Byzantium
    an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks
Created on Fri Jun 12 10:15:59 EDT 2009 (updated Sat Jun 27 00:35:33 EDT 2009)

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