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unusual facts about Altitude


Altitude

Regions on the Earth's surface (or in its atmosphere) that are high above mean sea level are referred to as high altitude.


Acaena juvenca

Acaena juvenca is a species of perennial plant found in scrubland and forest margins up to an altitude of 1200 m on the eastern side of both North and South Islands, New Zealand.

Adalia, Valladolid

The Retortero and Darzuela streams run across it, and its maximum altitude lies at mount Atalaya, with 830m.

Andrew Maxwell

In 2008 he and fellow comedian Marcus Brigstocke founded the Altitude Festival, a comedy/music festival in Meribel, The French Alps.

Andrist

There are two mountains called Andrist in Switzerland: Wild Andrist (means "wild Andrist") has an altitude of 2849 m asl; Zahm Andrist (means "tame Andrist") has an altitude of 2648 m asl.

Anuy River

Near the village of Anuyskoye, the river takes a northern direction and joins the Ob River near Biysk at an altitude of about 150 m.

Astronomical seeing

The best conditions give a seeing disk diameter of ~0.4 arcseconds and are found at high-altitude observatories on small islands such as Mauna Kea or La Palma.

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal along with Premlata Agarwal and a group of ace climbers, which includes Mt. Everest summiteers have quietly arrived in Uttarkashi and carried out relief and rescue operations in the remotest high altitude villages of the Himalayas that have been ravaged in the 2013 North India floods, where even the Indian Army jawans couldn't reach.

Baltia butleri

Found in Ladakh, the Digha pass; 150000 feet in Leh; Kardong Pass in the Karakoram and other areas at an altitude of 15,000 to 18,000 feet.

Big Bear City, California

Due to its high altitude it is often the location of the training camps for many Boxers and Mixed martial arts contestants such as Oscar De La Hoya, Shane Mosley, and Tito Ortiz.

Charolais cattle

In Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela, following the rural flight of farmers, many Charolais cattle were abandoned; they have survived in the wild feeding on Espeletia schultzii, a high altitude shrub.

Chronology of Pakistan's rocket tests

The Suparco's spaceflight missions and tests were the unmanned space missions of the Space Research Commission (SUPARCO) that was aimed for developing high-altitude rockets and space booster for the development of the country's space programme.

Civljane

Located in inland Dalmatia, north from the town of Vrlika, on the route between towns of Knin and Vrlika, Civljane village spread on 17.80 km2, on the field near the spring of river Cetina, on altitude of approximate 400 m, just under south base of mountain Dinara.

Clément-Bayard No.1

In front of the observers, the airship was piloted by Louis Capazza first to a record altitude of 1,200 m (4,000 ft) and then hours later to a new record of 1,550 m (5,080 ft).

Delaware Air National Guard

Col. (then Major) Patrick Houtman received the Distinguished Flying Cross for taking evasive action at low altitude after a surface to air missile (SAM) was launched against his C-130 aircraft.

Dobšinská Ice Cave

It lies 130 m above the Hnilec River, and the entrance is at an altitude of 971 m.

Dulit Frogmouth

The type specimen was collected by Charles Hose in 1891 on Mount Dulit in northern Sarawak, at an altitude of about 600 m, with the bird being taken “in a small jungle hut into which it had flown in the dusk evidently attracted by the light”.

Forest cobra

The brown colour phase occurs in coastal and high altitude forest, woodland and thicket, and grassland areas (i.e. Nyanga, Zimbabwe).

Fuller's caecilian

Fuller's caecilian (also Kuttal caecilian), Chikila fulleri, is a species of caecilian endemic to India; the type specimen was collected six miles southwest of Silchar in Cachar, Assam, at an altitude of about 100 m above sea level.

Ghods Mohajer

The UAV entered Israeli airspace at more than 100 knots and an altitude of about 1,000 feet, flew briefly over the seaside city of Nahariya, and fell into the sea.

Gloster Goldfinch

In January 1926 the Air Ministry funded Gloster Aircraft to produce an all-metal version of their Gamecock for a high altitude fighter role, hence requiring a supercharged engine.

Gonia

Gonia (Greek: Γωνιά) is a picturesque village in the Rethymno regional unit in Crete, Greece, lying at an altitude of ca 222 m amsl, about 10km southwest of the town of Rethymno.

Istebna

Jerzy Kukuczka, high altitude mountaineer, and the second person to climb all of the 8,000 metre peaks

Llanganates National Park

The area is 20 miles from the town of Baños but the trek takes around eight hours through swampy and mountainous jungle The area of discovery is at an altitude of 8,500ft above sea level and in cloud forest.

LNAV

In the case of the non-precision approach, the aircraft can descend only to what is referred to as a minimum descent altitude or MDA.

Lowest safe altitude

The AMA is the lowest off-airway altitude to be used under Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) that will provide a minimum vertical clearance of 1 000 feet (AGL), or in designated mountainous terrain 2 000 feet above all obstacles located in the area specified, rounded up to the nearest 100 foot increment.

LZ 4

After modifications further trials were made on 23 and 29 June, and on 1 July a spectacular 12  cross-country flight was made during which it was flown over Switzerland to Zürich and then back to Lake Constance, covering 386 m (240 mi) and reaching an altitude of 795 m (2,600 ft).

Martin XB-27

The Martin XB-27 (Martin Model 182) was an aircraft proposed by the Glenn L. Martin Company to fill a strong need in the United States Army Air Corps for a high-altitude medium bomber.

Martinair Flight 138

The crew then continued their descent until the aircraft crashed into Saptha Kanya Mountain at an altitude of approximately 4,355 feet and at around 40 nm east of Colombo.

Maychew

It is located at 665 km north of Addis Ababa along the Asphalt road that runs to Mekelle (the capital city of Tigray region) with an altitude of 2479 m.

Mount Wuteve

Data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission reveals that the correct altitude of its summit is 1,440 meters, and not the previously quoted 1,380 meters.

NearMap

NearMap speeds up this process by using their own engineered camera capture equipment, named a 'HyperPod', which is attached to Cessna 210 light aircraft, which fly at a high altitude, enabling entire cities to be captured in a day or two.

Nepenthes spathulata

Nepenthes spathulata is also known to grow terrestrially in high altitude peat swamp forest near Lake Kerinci, at an altitude of 1100 m.

P. V. H. Weems

According to the Institute of Navigation, however, "his proudest achievement" was the Star Altitude Curves, which simplified finding one's position; it was adopted by the Army Air Corps prior to World War II.

Pavagadh

The plateau at an altitude of 490 meters is known as Machi Haveli.

Per Wimmer

After six days of trekking, Per & Ralph flew in a Pilatus Porter airplane to an altitude of 29,500 feet (ca. 9 km), just above the peak of Mount Everest and jumped out in -50°C and free fell for one minute before opening the parachute and landed at the Drop Zone at 12,350 feet (ca. 4 km).

Pinguicula ramosa

Pinguicula ramosa is grows almost exclusively on mountains in Nikkō National Park in Japan, particularly on Mount Koshin, between 1500 and 1900 m in altitude.

Pt. G.B. Pant High Altitude Zoo, Nainital

G.B. Pant High Altitude Zoo is a high altitude zoo situated in Nainital, Uttarakhand.

RAF Edzell

It Reactivated again in Oct 1993, as the newly designated 17th Space Surveillance Squadron (17th SSS) operated sensors for the Low-Altitude Space Surveillance System, until its final deactivation and closure of RAF Edzell in 1996.

Rio dos Sinos

It rises in the hills east of Caraá (130 km away from Porto Alegre) at altitudes above 600 meters and covers a distance of about 190 km, flowing into the delta Jacuí in Canoas, at an altitude of only 5 meters.

Rocket Ranger

The lunarium is dropped in the form of bombs from a fleet of zeppelins flying at a higher altitude than anti-aircraft guns could possibly reach.

Scolitantides orion

The butterfly lives in rocky areas up to 1000 m of altitude, on plants such as Sedum telephium and Sedum album.

Short SB.4 Sherpa

Sherpa was designed by David Keith-Lucas as a research aircraft aimed primarily at assisting in the development of wings for faster, very high-altitude aircraft in general and the company's Preliminary Design (Short PD.1) in response to the U.K. V-Bomber requirement B35/46 in particular.

Sino-Indian border dispute

It is a virtually uninhabited high altitude wasteland crossed by the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway.

SLAF Mirigama

A Chinese JY-11 Radar low/medium altitude 3D surveillance radar has been installed since 2008 as part of the National Air Defence System of Sri Lanka.

Snowy Mountains Highway

The higher altitude regions of this road are subject to snow over the winter months, and the road also provides access to many parts of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Stenaroa rubriflava

The holotype of this species had been found north-eastern Madagascar 50 km west of Andapa at altitude of 1600m.

Summit cross

A superlative example is the Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak, in the Bucegi mountains of Romania at an altitude of 2291m — the greatest construction of this sort in the world (as recognized in 2013 by the Guinness World Records).

Virginia Heinlein

Shortly thereafter they moved to Colorado, but in 1965 her health was chronically affected by the altitude, so the couple moved to Bonny Doon, California.

Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area

It lies at an altitude of 1,175 – 1,500 m next to the village of Burqush in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, near Mount Hermon and close to the border with Lebanon.

Ziziphus incurva

It is found from 900 meters to 16000 meters altitude in eastern Nepal including Kathmandu valley.


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