Q: Just outside one of the Greatest Places is a mountain whose top is the furthest point from the center of the earth. Which place and what mountain?
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outside of western Amazonia, in the Andes Mountains of Equador,
is Mt. Chimborazo. Its highest point is 20,702 feet. Info: Remember that the equatorial diameter of the earth is 27 miles greater than its polar diameter, so the peak of Mt. Chimbarazo, almost on the equator, is further from the center of the earth than Mt. Everest by 6,890 feet, even though Mt. Everest is higher above sea level at 29,028 feet. |