geography Trivia Quiz # 31

It is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, and it's not so icy as the name might lead you to believe!

Ronans Magna was created by John Simmonds. He started in 1961 and the village opened in 1963. The village is built on a scale of 1/16. It has around 38 buildings and 400 "inhabitants". It covers around half an acre.

Wilpena Pound is a magnificent natural rock basin covering 80 square kilometres and reaching a height of about 500m. Being U-shaped, there is only one entrance to the basin. You can choose to hike around the area following the many walking trails within the Pound, or take it a bit easier and use the driving trail to see the surrounding area. Either way, you’ll be rewarded by beautiful scenery and most likely a glimpse or two of a kangaroo or wallaby. Before European settlers arrived, Australian Aborigines lived in the Flinders Ranges and many of their rock paintings are still visible in the area. An Aboriginal Dreamtime legend tells the story of the creation of Wilpena Pound: long ago, a large corroboree and initiation ceremony took place where Wilpena Pound now stands. Two huge snakes (akurra) found their way to the corroboree, surrounding it and swallowing all except a few of the people there. The two akurra were so full after eating so many people that they lay down nose-to-nose and tail-to-tail and willed themselves to death, thus forming the walls of the Pound.

The Stone Curlew otherwise known as the Bush Thicknee, is well known throughout the Territory as the ‘Devil Bird’. It has a haunting call which some likened to a lost child. I have heard a few stories from a couple of different aboriginal sources about devil birds calling all night and then an otherwise healthy person being dead the next day. Brown boobies are friendly, inquisitive birds, while pheasant coucals are splendid birds that coo all the time.

It's the name of a little village in the province of Limburg, some 20 miles east of Eindhoven and 10 miles west of the German border.

Windang is home to no less than four holiday resorts. During the summer months, the population of Windang is tripled by the amount of tourists that annually visit the area.

Cairns is the closest. Atherton is actually on the tablelands, but it isn't a city. The tablelands is a lovely place to visit; cooler than the coastal areas it has a great many waterfalls and crater lakes Barrine and Eacham.

Georgia's area is 59.4 thousand square miles. It is the largest state east of the Mississippi River. Every state entirely west of the Mississippi except Iowa and Hawaii is bigger. Jimmy Carter was the only US president born in Georgia through the end of the 20th century.

Michigan was named after the lake which the Indians had named. It meant 'great lake'. Vermont means 'green mountain', Louisiana is for Louis IV. Oregon is a fun name. One source said it might be from the French word for hurricane which they had given to the river now called Columbia. The other source said it might be from a name found on a French map. If anyone has another possibility, let me know.

Ras Musandam is in Oman, Tohor is a strait, and Sheikbeq is made up.