RIVERS
S E Asia : China, Burma, Laos, Vietnam , into South China Sea Mekong river
Central Asia : Himalayas, India, Bangladesh, into Bay of Bengal ganges river
Central Asia : Himalayas, Kashmir (India), mostly in Pakistan , into Arabian Sea Indus river
E. Europe : longest European river, entirely within Russia, into Caspian Sea
volga
W Europe : flows north from Switzerland through Germany, Netherlands, into
North Sea rhine
Europe : only major river flowing west to east , 2nd longest river in Europe,
from German Black Forest through Czech, Bulgaria, Austria
into Black Sea (Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade) danube
Great Britain : east to English channel (london) thames
S. America : 20 % of fresh water in the world, 2nd longest only to the Nile
Andes in Peru through Brazil amazon
S America : Brazil / Paraguay border, southeast through Argentina to South Atlantic parana
USA : longest, joins Mississippi just north of St Louis Mississippi
USA : 3rd longest N American, highest water discharge Missouri
USA : Vermont / New Hampshire border, through Massachusetts, Connecticut into Long Island Sound connecticut
USA : runs through New York City from North hudson
USA : Ohio / W Virginia border, Ky / Ohio, Ky / Indiana, Ky / Illinois borders , into Mississippi at Cairo Illinois (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati) ohio
USA : Wyoming, Idaho, (Shoshone Falls, big !) Washington , to Columbia River snake
DESERTS
S America :
Southeast Argentina : patagonia
Western coast (Chile) atacama
N. America :
joint Mexican - American : sonoran
s. California : mojave
SE California into Baja California (mex) colorado
NE Arizona : painted
Asia :
India - Pakistan border : thar
Mongolia - China gobi
Iran : salt
Israel : negev
northern arabian peninsula, inc Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria syrian
southern Saudi Arabia : empty quarter
Africa :
northeastern Sudan (s of Egypt) nubian
interior desert, mostly botswana, s. africa, namibia kalahari
Australia :
NW australia : great sandy
SW australia : great victoria
central australia : simpson
west central australia : gibson
MOUNTAINS
N. America:
northern alabama to quebec, canada : appalachians
new hampshire : white
vermont : green
just north of NYC catskills
northern NY adirondacks
pennsylvania, maryland, w. virginia, virginia allegheny
virginia blue ridge
tennessee/north carolina great smoky mnts
sounthern end of appalachians, alabama and north cumberland
SW colorado into northern N mexico san juan
wyoming into montana bighorn
wyoming wind river
montana - idaho border bitterroot
eastern washington - oregon blue
major range in nw us into canada cascade
major range in california sierra nevada
NE utah uinta
eastern mexico sierra madre oriental
western mexico sierra madre occidental
northern alaska brooks range
southern alaska alaska range
yukon territories/ NW territories mackenzie
also Guanacaste mnts and Talamanca Mnts in Costa Rica
S America :
entire west coast andes
Europe :
spain - france pyrhenees
northern italy with france, switzerland, austria alps
yugoslavia, bosnia - herzegovina dynaric alps
yugoslavia, romania , bulgaria balkans
southern Poland carpathian
south-central France massif central
northern spain cantabrian mnts
spain - portugal border estrela
Asia :
major range, western Russia urals
western China kun-lun
southern China, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan himalayas
central Pakistan sulaiman
major range, Afghanistan, northern Pakistan hindu kush
s coast of caspian sea, in iran elburz
AUSTRALIA
6 states, 2 territories
natives are aborigines
great dividing range
ayers rock, or uluru, largest rock in the world
a remnant of gondwanaland
darling river
lake eyre, lowest point in the country
2 monotremes (plat, spiny); dingos
most sparsely inhabited after antarctica
sydeny is largest, 2nd largest is melbourne; canberra is capital
australian dollar
1642 - tasman, dutch, tasmania and new zealand. “new holland”
1768 - james cook, botany bay, “new south wales”
1788 - 1st english convicts at botany bay
1901 - commonwealth of australia; brit emp.
PENINSULAS
Anatolian turkey
Balkan greece / albania / croatia / bosnia / croatia
Bataan philippines
Cape south africa
Cape Cod massachusetts
Cape York australia
Crimean black sea
Delmarva delaware, maryland, virginia
Gaspe mouth of st lawrence river
Iberian spain, portugal, gibraltar (pillars of hercules)
Sinai egypt, (israel)
Malay peninsula malaysia, (straight of malacca)
Jutland denmark
Appenine italy
Yucatan mexico