Map It! by Erika

Panama Canal, Panama

eguckenberger — 2025-09-29 14:57:40 UTC

If you travel through the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific, you actually travel southeast!

Australia

2025-09-29 16:02:48 UTC

There is an animal called wombat and it is dangerous

Sydney NSW, Australia

2025-09-29 16:03:17 UTC

There are a lot of dangerous animals

Panama Canal, Panama

10810_121 — 2025-09-29 16:03:41 UTC

I learned that it takes 11 hours for ONE ship to pass through the canal.

Australia

10755_44 — 2025-09-29 16:03:47 UTC

its a continent and a country

Australia

2025-09-29 16:03:49 UTC

"Blue ant" is a poisonous ant that can hurt you

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:03:52 UTC

It's man-made and 110 feet wide.

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:03:54 UTC

it was green at one point

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:04:30 UTC

The Sahara desert was once green.

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:04:33 UTC

It was a forest a long time ago

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:04:34 UTC

The Sahara dessert was once green, and problem will be again in a couple or one thousand years.

Australia

2025-09-29 16:04:45 UTC

Australia is both a continent and a country

panama canal

10755_44 — 2025-09-29 16:04:45 UTC

it is a shortcut for shiiping

Sahara Desert

10810_121 — 2025-09-29 16:04:53 UTC

The Sahara Desert used to be a lush green area and many animals lived there.

Amazon River

2025-09-29 16:04:58 UTC

There is no true answer to whether the Nile or the Amazon is longer

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:05:07 UTC

It takes 11 hours for one ship to pass through the Panama canal

Australia

2025-09-29 16:05:18 UTC

There's lots of deadly animals.

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:05:23 UTC

It wasn't always an empty desert, it was green and has a variety of animals living there.

Atacama Desert, Antofagasta, Chile

10988_29 — 2025-09-29 16:05:30 UTC

The Atacama Desert is the driest place in the world. One place in the desert only measured 1 millimeter annually.

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:05:32 UTC

about 14,000 ships go through it

Australia

2025-09-29 16:05:33 UTC

That it has combined with New Zealand to compete in the Olympics as astralasia

Australia

2025-09-29 16:05:36 UTC

austrailia has millions of spiders and they'll chase you down.

Antarctica

2025-09-29 16:05:44 UTC

Antarctica has a collection of ferns and plants that grow along the coast

Hawaii

2025-09-29 16:05:57 UTC

This is where my Kilauea is acting up

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:06:04 UTC

The Sahara wasn't always dry and vast but was green at some point

Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

2025-09-29 16:06:09 UTC

I learned that it is shared by Canada and America.

Australia

2025-09-29 16:06:16 UTC

Austrailia is not only a continent but also a country

Australia

10810_121 — 2025-09-29 16:06:16 UTC

Australia is a country and continent.

Antarctica

2025-09-29 16:06:34 UTC

Antarticia is very cold and dry, mostly sciencests live there

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:06:34 UTC

If you enter through the Panama canal versus the Pacific ocean you will merge in the Atlantic Ocean

Sydney NSW, Australia

2025-09-29 16:06:39 UTC

This is where most of the popultaition of Australia is

Atacama Desert, Antofagasta, Chile

2025-09-29 16:07:11 UTC

one of the harshest landscapes on earth

Prime Meridian, Blackheath Avenue, London, UK

2025-09-29 16:07:15 UTC

For a while, no one knew where the prime meridian was

Australia

2025-09-29 16:07:17 UTC

it has a population of 27 million

Sahara Desert

10807_115 — 2025-09-29 16:07:29 UTC

It used to be really humid and habitable.

North America

2025-09-29 16:08:02 UTC

Most human beings live in the northern hemisphere

Kalahari Desert

10807_115 — 2025-09-29 16:08:13 UTC

Bushmen were kicked out by the government because there were diamonds on the land.

Nile

10988_29 — 2025-09-29 16:09:01 UTC

The Amazon River puts more water into the Atlantic Ocean than the Nile, Congo, Ganges, Yangtze, Lena, St. Lawrence, Mississippi, and Mekong River combined.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 16:09:11 UTC

The reason time zones are so weird, the shape is because they had cases where countrys were separated by the line so they made it so the countrys are in the same side of the line

Australia

2025-09-29 16:09:23 UTC

Spiders are rally common there.

Panama Canal, Panama

10988_29 — 2025-09-29 16:09:52 UTC

To keep the Panama Canal is costs roughly 350 million dollars a year.

Australia

2025-09-29 16:09:58 UTC

Australia is a country and continent.

Panama Canal, Panama

10794_31 — 2025-09-29 16:43:43 UTC

Something that I learned about this was that it was entirely man-made.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

10794_31 — 2025-09-29 16:44:50 UTC

Something that I learned was that it was not a straight line and had some really random shapes.

Panama Canal, Panama

14133_33 — 2025-09-29 16:51:44 UTC

The French tried to construct something like what we have now before but they failed to do so.

Sahara Desert

12213_29 — 2025-09-29 16:52:25 UTC

there used to by a huge lake in the middle of the sahara

Australia

14133_33 — 2025-09-29 16:53:18 UTC

Australia is both a continent and a country.

Atacama Desert, Antofagasta, Chile

2025-09-29 16:57:45 UTC

This place gets the least rain in the world

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:58:03 UTC

It allowed ships to cross from the Atlantic or Pacific without having to go around South America.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 16:58:23 UTC

It is curved to avoid crossing through land.

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:58:28 UTC

About 14,600 pass through the Panama Canal. There are four sets of locks to support the boats passing through. There are rubber parts to help protect the ships passing through. Tugboats support the ship and help them through. Engineers continue to fight landslides, erosion, and other natural phenomena to keep the canal intact.

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:58:33 UTC

Without the Panama Canal, boats would have to go all the way around South America if they wanted to cross through Central America. This makes it one of the most important waterways on planet Earth.

Antarctica

2025-09-29 16:58:54 UTC

Antarctica is the largest single piece of ice on Earth. The Antarctic desert is one of the driest deserts in the world.

Dead Sea, Jordan

11555_30 — 2025-09-29 16:59:02 UTC

The dead sea has no fish in it

Sahara Desert

14133_33 — 2025-09-29 16:59:06 UTC

The Sahara Desert was once green unlike now, which is very dry.

Australia

14173_35 — 2025-09-29 16:59:16 UTC

australia is both a country and a continent

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 16:59:28 UTC

The Sahara Desert was not always a dry desert, it used to be green and had many savanna animals. Thousands of years ago, it was filled with lakes, rivers, and grasslands that supported human settlements. Ancient rock art found in the region shows giraffes, elephants, and other wildlife lived there. Over time, changes in climate gradually turned the area into the vast desert it is today.

Sahara Desert

10794_31 — 2025-09-29 16:59:38 UTC

It wasn't always a desert.

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 16:59:41 UTC

it has been a super useful canal for over one hundred years.

Panama Canal, Panama

12213_29 — 2025-09-29 16:59:58 UTC

It's the fastest way to get from NY to California

Australia

14165_69 — 2025-09-29 17:00:04 UTC

Sydney has the most population of Australia, it had combined with New Zealand to compete in the Olympics, and Australia has millions of spiders.

Sahara Desert

10698_33 — 2025-09-29 17:00:21 UTC

The Sahara desert is interesting because it was not always a desert. Over time it became barren and went from land into a hot desert.

Sahara Desert

14173_35 — 2025-09-29 17:00:24 UTC

Sahara used to be plain land and wasn't always a desert

Panama Canal, Panama

11039_28 — 2025-09-29 17:00:41 UTC

there are bumpers on the side of the canal locks so the boat doesn't scratch the sides and get ruined.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 17:00:50 UTC

I learned that the shape of the international date line is a weird shape because it had to be altered to wrap around countries so they weren't split in half.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 18:57:22 UTC

I learned why it wasn't straight

Tropic of Cancer Beach, The Bahamas

2025-09-29 18:59:31 UTC

It was named after the constellation Cancer

Capricorn, Cape Town, South Africa

2025-09-29 19:00:06 UTC

It was named after the constellation Capricorn

Amazon River

2025-09-29 19:01:15 UTC

The Amazon River is one of the longest rivers in the world

Panama Canal, Panama

1094323 — 2025-09-29 19:01:56 UTC

The Panama Canal was built so it would be easier to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Russia

2025-09-29 19:01:58 UTC

Russia spreads across Europe and Asia.

Australia

2025-09-29 19:02:15 UTC

In English, Australia is both a country and continent.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

14263_33 — 2025-09-29 19:02:15 UTC

the international date line is the line that decides whether or not you're a day ahead or behind.

Panama Canal, Panama

10809_115 — 2025-09-29 19:02:19 UTC

It costs about 350 million each year for repairs/maintenance.

Australia

chelseablank45 — 2025-09-29 19:02:25 UTC

Australia is a country and a continent!

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 19:02:25 UTC

It used to be green

26J24PM3+P7

14220_33 — 2025-09-29 19:02:56 UTC

Antartica is owned by none of the countries.

Botswana

chelseablank45 — 2025-09-29 19:02:56 UTC

The people native to Botswana are being forced out of their land.

Dead Sea

2025-09-29 19:03:06 UTC

no fish can survive in the dead sea

Australia

2025-09-29 19:03:11 UTC

Australia is a continent and a country, and it is apart of 1 of the 4 subregions of Oceania, Austrasia, Melenesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 19:03:13 UTC

The two islands on the international date line have a 21 hour difference

Australia

1094323 — 2025-09-29 19:03:15 UTC

Australia and Asia teamed up for something and were called Australiasia

Oceania

chelseablank45 — 2025-09-29 19:03:30 UTC

Australia is part of Oceania which is actually made up of four parts!

Australia

12797_35 — 2025-09-29 19:03:36 UTC

Australia

2025-09-29 19:03:55 UTC

It is a continet and a country

South China Sea

2025-09-29 19:03:57 UTC

This area is a highly debated area where countries try to argue who owns which area of the Sea. They do this to control trading in the area and to also fish.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

1094323 — 2025-09-29 19:03:58 UTC

Two places can have a 2 mile distance but a 21 hour time difference

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 19:03:58 UTC

the Sahara desert used to be a rainforest but has dried out.

Nile

2025-09-29 19:04:04 UTC

The Nile is also one of the biggest rivers in the world

Europe

12797_35 — 2025-09-29 19:04:23 UTC

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

10766_48 — 2025-09-29 19:04:29 UTC

The international date line wraps around the islands of Kiribati.

International Dateline Hotel, Vuna Road, Nuku'alofa, Tonga

10795_49 — 2025-09-29 19:04:31 UTC

the international dateline had to be changed because it was cutting through some countries making things difficult.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 19:04:33 UTC

It curves around island so that there isn't 2 different days on one island.

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 19:04:34 UTC

If you enter Panama from the Pacific ocean, you will emerge from the atlantic ocean

Antarctica

2025-09-29 19:04:34 UTC

Antarctica is too cold for any human to live there for too long. It is the only continent with no permanent human habitation. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent in terms of total area. There are no countries in Antarctica. Although there are seven countries that made defined claims to Antarctic territory prior to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 but the treaty does not legally recognize any claims. Antarctica’s coast generally range from -10° to -30°C (14° to -22°F). During the summer, coastal areas hover around 0°C (32°F) but can reach temperatures as high as 9°C (48°F).

Prime Meridian, Blackheath Avenue, London, UK

2025-09-29 19:04:36 UTC

Meridian is just a fancy word for midday.

Nile River Cruises, El Tahrir, St, Dokki, Egypt

10856_35 — 2025-09-29 19:04:41 UTC

the sudd of the Nile river is very hard to get through

Antarctica

2025-09-29 19:04:44 UTC

Antarctica has no native human population, the only people there are scientists or sometimes tourists, but their stay is never permeant.

Antarctica

10809_115 — 2025-09-29 19:04:45 UTC

It has an active volcano

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 19:04:57 UTC

The French were the ones who started it but they gave up.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

12797_35 — 2025-09-29 19:04:58 UTC

(16.436262523883308, 10.34726111552834)

14220_33 — 2025-09-29 19:05:01 UTC

The Shara desert is the hotest desert.

International Date Line, Tavuki, Fiji

2025-09-29 19:05:15 UTC

The International date Line is not a straight line to avoid countries that don't want to be split by different dates.

International Dateline Hotel, Vuna Road, Nuku'alofa, Tonga

10795_49 — 2025-09-29 19:05:24 UTC

some countries don't go by the dateline and completely disregard it!

Botswana

2025-09-29 19:05:24 UTC

Native people from Botswana are were being taken out of there home villages because they were hunting near were diamonds were spotted.

(59.15913056470978, 81.3628861155284)

14220_33 — 2025-09-29 19:05:40 UTC

Russia is in two continents.

Panama Canal, Panama

10856_35 — 2025-09-29 19:05:53 UTC

the water level rise and drop to make it easier for the boat to go through.

Prime Meridian, Blackheath Avenue, London, UK

14263_33 — 2025-09-29 19:05:59 UTC

You can find out by the prime meridian that it is longitude

Australia

2025-09-29 19:06:12 UTC

Australia's Sydney Harbor is a fish paradise! They have many different kinds of fish, from anglerifsh to eels

Australia

2025-09-29 19:06:18 UTC

It is debated if it is a continent or not. Some call the area Oceania, other simply say Austrilia.

Hollywood Walk of Fame, Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA

10809_115 — 2025-09-29 19:06:25 UTC

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is located in Los Angeles.

Oceania

2025-09-29 19:06:42 UTC

Some of the country's in Oceania aren't apart of any continent or at lest its not clarified.

Equator, Kenya

14263_33 — 2025-09-29 19:06:49 UTC

the equator is latitude and prime meridian is longitude

Amazon River

10795_49 — 2025-09-29 19:07:00 UTC

People still debate about which river is longer, and which river is shorter, and some websites even contradict themselves based on where you go to get your information.

Sahara Desert

2025-09-29 19:07:02 UTC

The Sahara Desert was once green because the Earth's orbit was shifted, causing less sun rays to dry out Sahara.

Tropic of Cancer Beach, The Bahamas

2025-09-29 19:07:12 UTC

It was named because the sun was in the Cancer constellation during the June solstice.

Red Sea

2025-09-29 19:07:15 UTC

There was a canal like built to get to the metirranian to the Red sea.

Australia

10766_48 — 2025-09-29 19:07:35 UTC

Some countries near Australia aren't considered part of the continent.

AMAZON RIVER - Santa Clara, Santarém - State of Pará, Brazil

10856_35 — 2025-09-29 19:07:37 UTC

The Amazon river has a ton of smaller rivers in it.

Panama Canal, Panama

2025-09-29 19:08:03 UTC

The Panamal canal was made to make it easier for ships to go from places like Europe and Asia. Although it is short and narrow, over 14600 ships cross through it each year. To cross through the canal it normally takes at least 11 hours.

Tropic of Capricorn, Burt Plain NT, Australia

2025-09-29 19:08:11 UTC

It was named because the sun was in the Capricorn constellation during the December solstice.

Spratly Islands

2025-09-29 19:08:14 UTC

There is a lot of fighting over the South China Sea. China, Philippines, Taiwan, and other islands, fight over the territory. There have been MANY wars and debates. The sea is used for transportation and trade.

Diomede, AK

2025-09-29 19:08:26 UTC

Event though the Diomedes Islands are 2 miles apart, they have a 24 hour difference.

Atacama Desert, Antofagasta, Chile

2025-09-29 19:09:18 UTC

The Atacama Desert is known to be the driest place on Earth, that's because of its landscape. The Andes mountains block the precipitation from the Pacific Ocean causing it to dry out.

Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn

2025-09-29 19:09:57 UTC

The Tropic of Cancer was named for the Cancer constellation during the June solstice 2000 years ago and the Tropic of Capricorn was named for the Capricorn constellation during the December solstice centuries ago.

Sahara Desert

10766_48 — 2025-09-29 19:10:15 UTC

A long time ago, people would make drawings on rocks of what they saw and their surroundings, and these were found in the Sahara desert. The drawings that were found were drawings of lots of animals, including animals that have to be in water in order to survive.

Australia

2025-09-29 19:11:14 UTC

Australia is home to many different species of fish. ex: flying fish, deep sea angler fish!

Australia

2025-09-29 20:06:06 UTC