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Where is the highest mountain?

On Mars.

The giant volcano Olympus - or, in Latin, Olympus Mons - is the highest mountain in the solar system and other parts of the universe known to mankind.

With a height of 22 km and a diameter of 624 km, Mount Olympus is almost three times higher than Everest and is so wide that its base can cover Arizona or the entire territory of the British Isles. The crater at the top is about 72 km wide and over 3 km deep - just enough to fit a metropolis like London.

It should be noted, however, that Mount Olympus does not exactly fall under the definition of "mountain" as most people understand it. The top of Mount Olympus is completely flat - like a huge plateau in the middle of the sea, from which water has been pumped out - and the slopes are by no means steep. A slight incline of 1-3 degrees means you won't even break a sweat while climbing.

Traditionally, we are used to judging mountains by their height. If we judged mountains by their size, it would be completely meaningless to separate one mountain in a range from all the others. With this approach, Olympus would be a midget compared to Everest. Since Everest is only part of the giant mountain system of the Himalayas - Karakoram - Hindu Kush - Pamir, stretching for almost 2400 km.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Where did the statues on Easter Island come from?

On Easter Day in 1722, Dutch Admiral Jakob Rogevin's ship landed on a grassy island in the South Pacific. The admiral called the land he discovered Easter Island and soon discovered that this was a very mysterious place.

The island was located 1500 miles from the nearest inhabited land. The population of the island consisted of about 1000 natives - dark-skinned Polynesians. The most curious thing that the researcher managed to find on the island was the following. Along the entire shore, he saw huge human heads standing upright, each of which was carved from a single stone rock. The stone depicted elongated faces similar to each other with unusually long earlobes. Some statues had hands, while others had hats made from pieces of red volcanic lava.

Soon the admiral learned that the statues were not only on the shore, but scattered all over the island. Many unfinished ones were found in abandoned quarries. Primitive tribes in all corners of the earth have various forms of art, usually associated in one way or another with their religion, but nothing like these statues could be found anywhere else! In fact, they are still a mystery to scientists.

One of the questions, for example, is how primitive people could drag 50-ton statues from the quarries to the sea coast. What type of vehicle did they use? No one knows! Experts believe that the statues are somehow connected with primitive religious cults and burial rites.

Many of the statues were deliberately broken during the wars that raged on the island during the 20th century. But even the modern inhabitants of the island cannot explain what these statues are. Now Easter Island is a colony of Chile. The whole island, with the exception of a small part provided to the natives, is given over to pastures. The size of the island is small and is approximately 12 km long and XNUMX (at its widest point) wide.

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