WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Gaet'ale: The saltiest water body on Earth
28-09-2021
(WorldKings.org) The water of Gaet'ale Pond has a salinity of 43%, making it the saltiest water body on Earth.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Bir Tawil: The only unclaimed land on earth
08-09-2021
(WorldKings.org) Egypt asserts the political boundary, and Sudan asserts the administrative boundary, with the result that the Hala'ib Triangle is claimed by both and Bir Tawil by neither. In 2014, author Alastair Bonnett described Bir Tawil as the only place on Earth that was habitable but was not claimed by any recognised government.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Oldoinyo Llengai: Highest active carbonatite volcano
30-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) Ol Doinyo Lengai is unique among active volcanoes in that it produces natrocarbonatite lava, a unique occurrence of volcanic carbonatite. A few older extinct carbonatite volcanoes are located nearby, including Homa Mountain.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Okavango Delta: The largest inland delta in the world
25-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) The largest inland delta in the world, the Okavango Delta is the most unexpected wonder – water present in a desert. Dubbed “the river that never finds the sea”, this magical oasis spreads over more than 15 500 km² (almost 6 000 square miles) and yet is so fragile that, if it were denied water for even a decade, it would revert to a semi-desert.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Senegambian stone circles: The largest concentration of stone circles in the world
20-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) These sites, Wassu, and Kerbatch in Gambia, and Wanar and Sine Ngayene in Senegal, represent an extraordinary concentration of more than 1,000 stone circles and related tumuli spread over a territory of 100 km wide and 350 km in length, along the River Gambia.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) - Care For Wild Rhino Sanctuary: The largest rhino sanctuary in the world
17-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) The exact location of the sanctuary is not disclosed due to security reasons. Opened in 2001 by its founder Petronel Nieuwoudt, it was started with the purpose of providing care and rehabilitation to a wide range of animals, namely the critically endangered Black Rhinoceros and White Rhinoceros whose numbers continue to decline due to rhino poaching.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – El Ferdan Railway Bridge: The longest swing bridge in the world
02-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) In July 1996, a consortium led by German Krupp was awarded a $US70 million contract to design and build the bridge, raised to $80 million to increase the main span from 320 to 340 m (1,050 to 1,120 ft). The current bridge was constructed in 2001.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Great Mosque of Kairouan: House the world's oldest oldest minaret still standing
17-07-2021
(WorldKings.org) The minaret, in its present aspect, dates largely from the early ninth century, about 836 AD. It is the oldest minaret in the Muslim world, and it is also the world's oldest minaret still standing.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Letšeng Diamond Mine: The world's highest diamond mine
16-07-2021
(WorldKings.org) Letšeng Diamond Mine is at an elevation of 3,100 m (10,000 ft). It is the world's highest diamond mine.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Bou Craa conveyor belt system: The world's longest conveyor belt system
26-06-2021
(Kyluc.vn - Worldkings.org) The longest conveyor belt system is so big that it can be seen from space.
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