EQUATOR
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| show | GUINEA
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| A MILLER'S TALE : "23 DEGREES, 27 MINUTES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR" | show 🗑
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| THIS ECUADORIAN ISLAND GROUP STRADDLES THE EQUATOR, BUT ISABELA IS THE ONLY ONE THROUGH WHICH IT PASSES | show 🗑
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| show | EQUATOR
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| AN EQUATORIAL DIAMETER GREATER THAN THE POLAR DIAMETER MAKES THE EARTH THIS TYPE OF SPHEROID | show 🗑
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| show | 45 DEGREES
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| show | DOLDRUMS
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| BIOKO, AN ISLAND OF THIS EQUATORIAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, WAS ONCE KNOWN AS FERNANDO POO | show 🗑
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| AN AFRICAN COUNTRY NAMED FOR THIS LINE IS ACTUALLY ONE DEGREE NORTH OF IT | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY WHOSE CAPITAL CITY LIES THE CLOSEST TO 0 DEGREES LATITUDE | show 🗑
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| show | AFRICA
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| show | CANADA AND INDIA
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| BECAUSE AREAS FAR FROM THE EQUATOR ARE ENLARGED, GREENLAND IS BIGGER THAN SOUTH AMERICA IN THE 16TH-C. PROJECTION NAMED FOR THIS MAN | show 🗑
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| THE FLAG OF THE UNITED NATIONS SHOWS THE WORLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THIS SPOT | show 🗑
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| IN THE WILD, PENGUINS LIVE SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR, WITH THE NORTHERNMOST ONES BEING FROM THIS SOUTH AMERICAN ISLAND GROUP | show 🗑
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| show | 25,000 MILES
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| ADJECTIVE FOR A SATELLITE MEANING STAYING IN THE SAME POSITION ABOVE THE EARTH'S EQUATOR AT ALL TIMES | show 🗑
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| 90 MILES FROM THE EQUATOR, THIS MILE-HIGH KENYAN CAPTIAL RARELY EXCEEDS 80 DEGREES IN TEMPERATURE | show 🗑
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| show | ATLANTIC, PACIFIC, & INDIAN
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| THE NAME OF THIS WEST AFRICAN EQUATORIAL NATION CAME FROM THE PORTUGUESE FOR ITS RIVER'S MOUTH, RIO DE GABAO | show 🗑
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| THE 3RD LARGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD, THIS INDONESIAN ONE IS BISECTED BY THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| show | CONGO
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| THIS COUNTRY CROSSES THE LINE; THE CITY OF ENTEBBE IS JUST NORTH OF IT | show 🗑
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| show | LATITUDE
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| NEAR THE EQUATOR, THIS OCEAN STRETCHES ABOUT 12,000 MILES FROM COLUMBIA TO THE MALAY PENINSULA | show 🗑
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| THIS CITY-STATE IS FOUND A MERE 85 MILES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| show | AFRICA
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| THE APPROXIMATE SPEED OF A SPOT ON THE EQUATOR WHILE THE EARTH SPINS | show 🗑
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| THE WORLD'S MOST POPULOUS CAPITAL SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| show | KALAHARI
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| THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY, WHICH INCLUDES CANBERRA, WAS CARVED OUT OF THIS MOST POPULOUS STATE | show 🗑
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| show | NEW HEBRIDES
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| show | ST. HELENA
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| show | MOUNT KENYA
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| show | EQUATOR
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| IN 1848 JOHANNES REBMANN BECAME THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO SEE THIS SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAIN ON THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| THE EQUATOR PASSES THROUGH THIS NATION'S ISLANDS OF SULAWESI, KALIMANTAN, & SUMATRA | show 🗑
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| show | LAKE VICTORIA
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| show | GULF STREAM
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| show | EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD
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| PORTUGUESE SAILORS CROSSED THIS LINE & FOUND THAT THE OCEAN DIDN'T BOIL THERE, AS WAS THOUGHT | show 🗑
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| THE MERIDIAN OF CAPE AGULHAS, AFRICA'S MOST SOUTHERLY POINT, SERVES AS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THESE 2 OCEANS | show 🗑
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| IN 1947 EDITH RONNE & JENNY DARLINGTON BECAME THE FIRST WOMEN TO WINTER ON THIS CONTINENT | show 🗑
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| show | COOK ISLANDS
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| 1 OF THE 2 "GREAT" AUSTRALIAN DESERTS | show 🗑
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| show | NORTH STAR
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| show | AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
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| IN ITS CAPITAL N'DJAMENA, YOU MIGHT LEARN THAT THIS NATION WAS ONCE PART OF FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA | show 🗑
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| THE 2 CONTINENTS ENTIRELY SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| BOER VOORTREKKERS WHO ATTEMPTED TO CROSS THIS DESERT IN THE LATE 19TH-C. CALLED IT THE "THIRTSTLAND" | show 🗑
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| show | ARGENTINA
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| show | NEW ZEALAND
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| EQUATORIAL GUINEA IS THE ONLY AFRICAN NATION WHOSE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IS THIS | show 🗑
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| OF THE MORE THAN A DOZEN COUNTRIES THROUGH WHICH THE EQUATOR PASSES, THIS COUNTRY STRETCHES THE FARTHEST SOUTH | show 🗑
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| IN AREA, IT'S THE LARGEST COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA ENTIRELY NORTH OF THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE ONLY INHABITED U.S. TERRITORY SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| THIS ISLAND THAT'S SECOND IN SIZE ONLY TO GREENLAND HAS SOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST GOLD AND COPPER RESERVES | show 🗑
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| FRENCH & MALAGASY ARE THIS COUNTRY'S 2 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES | show 🗑
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| THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THE LIGHT & THE DARK SIDES OF THE MOON IS CALLED THIS... | show 🗑
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| OF KENYA, COLUMBIA, OR THAILAND, THE ONE THAT'S NOT FOUND ON THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| EITHER AND EXPERIENCE SAILOR OR JUST ONE WHO'S CROSSED THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| show | TROPIC OF CANCER
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| LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR, IT'S SOUTH AMERICA'S OLDEST CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | PLUTO
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| JUST 12 DEGREES SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR, THIS PERUVIAN CAPITAL'S TEMPERATURES ARE MODERATED BY THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT | show 🗑
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| show | BRAZIL
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| IT'S THE LATITUDE OF ANY POINT ON THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| THE MITAD DEL MUNDO, "MIDDLE OF THE EARTH" MONUMENT, IS NEAR QUITO IN THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| THESE ISLAND WERE NAMED FROM THE SPANISH FOR "SADDLES", FOR THE SADDLEBACK TORTOISES FOUND THERE | show 🗑
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| show | GEOSYNCHRONUS
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| THE FIRST TIME YOUR SHIP CROSSES THIS LINE, YOU'LL BE CERTIFIED A SHELLBACK, WITH GREAT CEREMONY | show 🗑
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| SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE WEST PART OF THIS CONTINENT WOULD BE AN ARCHIPELAGO IF THE ICE WERE REMOVED | show 🗑
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| THIS 350' WATERFALL IS ON THE ZAMBEZI RIVER ON THE BORDER BETWEEN ZIMBABWE AND ZAMBIA | show 🗑
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| 1/5 OF THE FRESH WATER ENTERING ALL OCEANS COMES FROM THIS RIVER THAT FLOWS NORTHEAST TO THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| IN 1842 THE BRITISH MADE STANLEY THE CAPITAL OF THESE LATER WAR-TORN ISLANDS OFF ARGENTINA | show 🗑
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| show | EQUATORIAL GUINEA
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| SAILING SHIPS MAY EXPERIENCE DAYS OF CALM IN THIS OCEAN REGION NEAR THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| THE PRIME MERIDIAN MEETS THE EQUATOR AT 0 DEGREES LATITUDE, 0 DEGREES THIS | show 🗑
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| show | PUDDINHEAD WILSON
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| show | ECUADOR
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| show | DECEMBER
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| show | SPINS ON ITS AXIS
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| show | DEGREE
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| show | VENUS
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| show | MARCH & SEPTEMBER
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| show | EQUATOR
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| show | EQUATORIAL GUINEA
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| show | EUROPE
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| ACCORDING TO THE TITLE, IT'S WHAT TWAIN WAS FOLLOWING IN HIS LAST TRAVEL BOOK | show 🗑
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| DAYS AND NIGHTS ARE ALWAYS 12 HOURS LONG THERE | show 🗑
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| SHIP PASSENGERS ARE GREETED AND DUNKED BY KING NEPTUNE THE FIRST TIME THEY CROSS THIS | show 🗑
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| REGION NEAR THE EQUATOR THAT TOOK THE WIND OUT OF SINBAD'S SAILS | show 🗑
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| show | 0 DEGREES
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| OF ALL THE CITIES TO HOST THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES, THIS ONE LIES CLOSEST TO THE EQUATOR | show 🗑
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| STARTED IN 1988 FOR THIS CITY'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY, A SPRINGTIME FLOWER FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER SHOWS OFF ITS COMMONWEALTH PARK | show 🗑
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| show | INDIAN OCEAN
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