- Helicopter is a popular way to get from Monaco to the nearest airport in Nice, France, and is not much more expensive than taxi fare
- St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport is located just a few meters inside Switzerland, but is owned and managed by an Austrian company
- Because the Aleutian Islands straddle the 180 meridien, Alaska is both our westernmost and easternmost state Greenland’s Kaffeklubben Island is world’s most northern land
- There are four different South Poles: the Geographic South Pole (where the earth’s axis intersects Earth’s crust), the Inaccessible South Pole (where Antarctica is farthest from the shoreline), the Geomagnetic South Pole (where the geomagnetic field intersects the Earth’s surface), and the Magnetic South Pole (where Earth’s magnetic fields intersect the crust)
- It’s common knowledge that Russia and Turkey straddle the Europe/Asia border, but fewer people realize that Kazakstan, Georgia, and Azerbaijan do as well.
