Chimborazo
About Chimborazo
Chimborazo is a stratovolcano in Ecuador and the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes. Its last known eruption is believed to have occurred around AD 550.
On the show
Yeah. This is the thing that would take so long because there are so many thousands of peaks. Yeah. I'm surprised that Chimborazu is not seen to be... So Mount Chimborazu is an Ecuador, is the highest point on earth. It's 2.4 kilometers higher than Mount Everest because of the shape of the earth. It's further from the centre of the earth. Exactly. Because the earth bulges a bit around the equator.
from 109: No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp, 2016-04-15 at 00:19:31 · read transcript
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109: No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp put 2 places on the map.
- Princeton University · United States
Coordinates: -1.4692, -78.8175
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