WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – FlipFlopi: World’s first sailing boat made entirely from plastic waste and flip-flops collected from ocean
02-03-2022
(WorldKings.org) The rainbow-colored FlipFlopi dhow is 9 meters long and made from discarded plastics picked up during regular clean-ups of the ocean. Its first voyage from the Kenyan island of Lamu to Stone Town is in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 2019.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - African Records Institute (AFRI) – African pygmy squirrel: World's smallest squirrel spieces
17-02-2022
(WorldKings.org) African pygmy squirrel is the world's smallest squirrel. The standard adult mass is only 16.5 grams.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Brookesia nana: World’s smallest reptile
17-01-2022
(WorldKings.org) Adult males measure 22 mm in total length, while females are slightly larger at 29 mm.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Lesotho: World's most elevated country
15-01-2022
(WorldKings.org) It is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres in elevation. Its lowest point of 1,400 metres is thus the highest lowest point of any country in the world.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Kristall Galerie: House the world’s largest quartz crystal cluster
12-01-2022
(WorldKings.org) The world's largest quartz cluster weighs 14,100 kg and took three years to excavate and remove.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Conraua goliath: Largest frog species in the world
08-01-2022
(WorldKings.org) Specimens can grow up to 32 centimetres in length from snout to vent, and weigh up to 3.25 kilograms.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Bushveld Igneous Complex: Own largest world's largest reserves of platinum-group elements
25-12-2021
(WorldKings.org) BIC represents about 75 percent of the world's platinum and about 50 percent of the world's palladium resources.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Bahr El-Baqar: World's largest wastewater treatment plant
22-12-2021
(WorldKings.org) The cost of the plant is LE20 billion, and its daily capacity is 5.6 million cubic meters to be used in the reclamation of 400 feddans (one feddan equals 4,500 square meters) in Sinai.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Light of the Desert: World’s largest faceted cerussite gem
20-12-2021
(WorldKings.org) The raw cerussite was discovered in Tsumeb in northern Namibia.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Ngwenya Mine: Oldest mine in the world
16-12-2021
(WorldKings.org) Ngwenya Mine’s iron ore deposits constitute one of the oldest geological formations in the world, and also have the distinction of being the site of the world's earliest mining activity.