How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]

Well, the Red River does get quite large sometimes. http://stundenbower.files.wordpress....floodmap51.jpg

Thanks for clarifying. Is the answer the Niagra River?

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Originally Posted by schmenke

The St. Lawrence river flows generally west to east.

I believe this is a bit of a trick question as, by volume, I would guess it’s the Mackenzie River flowing from Great Slave Lake into the Beaufort Sea, contained entirely, I believe, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Best so far... I was thinking of the complete complex...Makenzie/Slabe/Peace.

Want to go for Bonus Points?

Typo. You mean Slave.

So, you are refering to the complete system with interconnected rivers, including the Great Slave Lake.

As for bonus points, I believe the provinces and territory have already been mentioned.

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

Best so far... I was thinking of the complete complex...Makenzie/Slabe/Peace.

Want to go for Bonus Points?

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I wish you would make up your mind what you do mean!

When I asked whether you meant greatest length or if you meant greatest flow you emphatically said you did not mean the length, i.e. you implied you meant flow volume. You did not say that you meant the catchment area, which it appears is what you were looking for judging by this response.

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Originally Posted by D-Type

I wish you would make up your mind what you do mean!

When I asked whether you meant greatest length or if you meant greatest flow you emphatically said you did not mean the length, i.e. you implied you meant flow volume. You did not say that you meant the catchment area, which it appears is what you were looking for judging by this response.

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Oh I know what I meant and Schemke got the MAIN answer good enough.
You want to ask a question about greatest flow, go ahead. Schmenke seems to have disappeared.

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Originally Posted by schmenke

The St. Lawrence river flows generally west to east.

I believe this is a bit of a trick question as, by volume, I would guess it’s the Mackenzie River flowing from Great Slave Lake into the Beaufort Sea, contained entirely, I believe, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

By length, it might be the Red River that flows along the North Dakota – Minnesota border (not sure of its source), through Manitoba and empties into Lake Winnipeg.

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More North-North East but not really west-east. ;)

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

Oh I know what I meant and Schemke got the MAIN answer good enough.
You want to ask a question about greatest flow, go ahead. Schmenke seems to have disappeared.

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You may know - but I didn't. Hence I asked for clarification. (Admittedly I didn't think of catchment area, only of length and flow).

Ok, I suspect this one will be answered fairly quickly...

If you were to sail due north from Tahiti what would be the first land mass you would encounter?

Asia?

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Ok, I suspect this one will be answered fairly quickly...

If you were to sail due north from Tahiti what would be the first land mass you would encounter?

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Well I know the approximative location of Tahiti in the Polynesia region of the south Pacific, but exactly where Tahiti is and what
other islands that are nearby is more difficult to say but my guess is Hawaii.

What is a land mass? I mean there might be a tony atoll somewhere around the French Polynesian area, or increasing in size Hawaii is north or failing that its probably Russia.

If sailing north of Tahiti you would have to watch out for Caroline Atoll also known as Millennium Island. When sailing you seldom sail in a straight line there is more zig zagging due to the direction of the wind.
You could argue as a coral atoll it is not 'land' technically, but your yacht/ sailing vessel would run still aground. You require a marine chart for other subsurface reefs and be mindful of uncharted reefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Island

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Originally Posted by Zeakiwi

If sailing north of Tahiti you would have to watch out for Caroline Atoll also known as Millennium Island. When sailing you seldom sail in a straight line there is more zig zagging due to the direction of the wind.
You could argue as a coral atoll it is not 'land' technically, but your yacht/ sailing vessel would run still aground. You require a marine chart for other subsurface reefs and be mindful of uncharted reefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Island

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Yeah but the operative word is Land MASS.

Like Alaska is a MASS and that's what you'd prolly hit. dress warm.

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

Yeah but the operative word is Land MASS.

Like Alaska is a MASS and that's what you'd prolly hit. dress warm.

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I think you right. I was torn between Russia and Alaska/USA.

Yes, janvanvurpa is correct, land mass refers to a sizable chunk of land, and Alaska is what I was looking for. Specifically, the landing spot would be just south of Anchorage.

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Yes, janvanvurpa is correct, land mass refers to a sizable chunk of land, and Alaska is what I was looking for. Specifically, the landing spot would be just south of Anchorage.

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Hence the city's name? :p

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

"You can't think like that!
What would happen if everybody thought that way?" <----bonus points for the name of one of greatest books ever written that that is a quote from

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OK, nobody got the bonus points but you can't leave us like this ( I mean in ignorance....) . Please tell us the name of the book.

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Yes, janvanvurpa is correct, land mass refers to a sizable chunk of land, and Alaska is what I was looking for. Specifically, the landing spot would be just south of Anchorage.

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I drove up in Feb.1985 with a customer in a great winter car"SAAB 96 with the mighty V4---3500km snow the whole way...-53 in Yukon where I got to change a water pump..But my guy said the name of the place was (un)officially---are ya ready?
Los Anchorage because if the 50km radius of non moving rush hour traffic twice a day.

I have called it that since that day.

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

OK, nobody got the bonus points but you can't leave us like this ( I mean in ignorance....) . Please tell us the name of the book.

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The book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...the dialog was he's in the airfield mess hall and he is panicing because he's a bombardier sitting in the node of a B25 with just 6.25mm of flexi-glass between him and all the German flak going off all around and he says he wants to get medical discharge because "They're trying to kill me!!!"

His comrades are all very realxed and tell him "They're not trying to kill you Yossarian, they're trying to kill everybody! You can't take it so personally"
He says "But I'm a person aren't I? They're trying to kill me"

They then say "You can't think of it like that. What would happen if everybody thought that way?"

Yosarrian answers logically "Then I'd be be crazy to think otherwise!"
That book may be the best book of the last century.

^also a book I own and still haven't managed to read entirely...perhaps you need to be an intellectual (or bored out of your wits) to enjoy this "classic" of the last century.

Are we asking questions or talking about books?

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Originally Posted by anfield5

Are we asking questions or talking about books?

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Talking about books it seems? ;)

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Talking about books it seems? ;)

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OK - have you read The Cat In The Hat. It's about a cat who wears a hat and I think he eats some Green Eggs and Ham with an elephant called Sam :)

No, but I did read Janet & John and read Peter and Jane with my kids. But neither are in the same class as The Cat in the Hat. Then there's The Village with Three Corners.

or the classic of all classics Badjelly the Witch with the stunningly classic line 'Stinky poo stinky poo, knickers, knickers, knickers!"

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Originally Posted by Storm

^also a book I own and still haven't managed to read entirely...perhaps you need to be an intellectual (or bored out of your wits) to enjoy this "classic" of the last century.

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Hmmmmm. Perhaps one needs to have a fine appreciation of the absurdity of life....after all most of what we do is from one point of view absurd..
War is one thing, business mania---which is the real story in the book, is another...

Now, new question: What do Darhadïn Bowl , Selenga, Ozero Bajkal, and Karskoje More all have in common?

I know that both Darhadin and Selenga are in Siberia and that Ozero Baykal or Baikal (I am assuming Ozero Bajkal is a alternate or more correct spelling of the same thing) is the largest (by water volume) and deepest fresh water lake in the world is in Siberia, but other than that I am so far stumped and I have never heard of Karskoje More, but if it too is a body of fresh water I am guessing it is in Russia as well

So to link them, are they all part of the same river system. i.e. The Selenga River is sourced in the Darhadin Bowl in Mongolia, flows into Ozero Baykal before emptying to the Arctic sea via Karskje More?

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Originally Posted by anfield5

I know that both Darhadin and Selenga are in Siberia and that Ozero Baykal or Baikal (I am assuming Ozero Bajkal is a alternate or more correct spelling of the same thing) is the largest (by water volume) and deepest fresh water lake in the world is in Siberia, but other than that I am so far stumped and I have never heard of Karskoje More, but if it too is a body of fresh water I am guessing it is in Russia as well

So to link them, are they all part of the same river system. i.e. The Selenga River is sourced in the Darhadin Bowl in Mongolia, flows into Ozero Baykal before emptying to the Arctic sea via Karskje More?

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So close.. and Karskje More is Kara Sea but maybe closer to --if we had it in English---Kara-ish Sea.... Missing one element.....

All are receding?

Are we now taking about hair lines?

No - drying up like the Aral Sea. Maybe I should have said "shrinking"

nope. it is water they share, what water goes from Mongolia all the way to Kara Sea, via Baikal?

yenisey river system?

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

nope. it is water they share, what water goes from Mongolia all the way to Kara Sea, via Baikal?

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Djingis Khan river?

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Originally Posted by anfield5

yenisey river system?

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DING DING DING

or maybe GOAL!

Kinda like the Mackenzie River system its HUGE but few know its name....

Your go.

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Djingis Khan river?

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Ding Johan Flodet?

In terms of its' geography What two slightly strange records does the Maldives hold?

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Originally Posted by anfield5

In terms of its' geography What two slightly strange records does the Maldives hold?

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It's the world's lowest country above sea level (saw that on a nature show) and I have no idea what the other one is.

Dunno. Largest number of islands?