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4 unusual facts about Journey to the Center of the Earth


Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen

The Church of Our Saviour in Christianshavn appears in a chapter of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Loch Ard Gorge

This was the location for a number of scenes of the 1982 film The Pirate Movie and also the 1999 TV series Journey to the Center of the Earth with Treat Williams.

Petra Yared

Petra Yared has also appeared in films, including: The Real Macaw and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999).

Thayer David

He also appeared as Count Arne Saknussemm in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1959.


Snæfellsjökull

The mountain is one of the most famous sites of Iceland, primarily due to the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne, in which the protagonists find the entrance to a passage leading to the center of the earth on Snæfellsjökull.


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Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen

The French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou has depicted the church in the original French illustrated version of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, but has the spire turned the wrong way around, that is, clockwise instead of anticlockwise.