🔆Seine water quality poses a challenge for the Olympics
▪️Seine river
✅The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long river situated in northern France.
✅It rises 18 miles (30 kilometres) northwest of Dijon and flows in a northwesterly direction through Paris before emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre.
✅The Seine, especially below Paris, is a great traffic highway. It links Paris with the sea and the huge maritime port of Le Havre. Rouen,
✅The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, 2024, will be held on the River Seine.
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▪️Seine river
✅The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long river situated in northern France.
✅It rises 18 miles (30 kilometres) northwest of Dijon and flows in a northwesterly direction through Paris before emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre.
✅The Seine, especially below Paris, is a great traffic highway. It links Paris with the sea and the huge maritime port of Le Havre. Rouen,
✅The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, 2024, will be held on the River Seine.
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Which of the following rivers are flows between India and Bangladesh ?
1. Dharia
2. Kushiyara
3. Kaladan
4. Teesta
1. Dharia
2. Kushiyara
3. Kaladan
4. Teesta
Select the correct answer using code given below :
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14%
1 and 3 only
25%
2 , 3 and 4 only
41%
1 , 2 and 4 only
20%
1 , 2 , 3 and 4
🔆Minami-Torishima island (Japan)
✅Why in news: Researchers discovered 230 million tons of minerals, including cobalt and nickel, off a remote island 1,200 miles from Tokyo.
✅Minami-Torishima Island, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, 1,950 km southeast of Tokyo.
✅ It is Japan’s easternmost territory and the only one on the Pacific Plate.
✅The island is shaped like an equilateral triangle and formed by a raised coral reef, with flat terrain and a maximum altitude of 9 meters.
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✅Why in news: Researchers discovered 230 million tons of minerals, including cobalt and nickel, off a remote island 1,200 miles from Tokyo.
✅Minami-Torishima Island, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, 1,950 km southeast of Tokyo.
✅ It is Japan’s easternmost territory and the only one on the Pacific Plate.
✅The island is shaped like an equilateral triangle and formed by a raised coral reef, with flat terrain and a maximum altitude of 9 meters.
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🔆Disputed islands of south china sea
✅Spratly Islands: Claimed by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, this archipelago is a hotspot for conflict. The dispute involves competing claims over islands, reefs, and waters.
✅Paracel Islands: Disputed mainly between China and Vietnam, this group of islands has seen past conflicts and remains a contentious area.
✅Scarborough Shoal: Claimed by China and the Philippines, tensions have risen since China’s takeover in 2012.
✅China’s “Nine-Dash Line” claim overlaps with the maritime territories of other nations, complicating the dispute and leading to regional instability.
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✅Spratly Islands: Claimed by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, this archipelago is a hotspot for conflict. The dispute involves competing claims over islands, reefs, and waters.
✅Paracel Islands: Disputed mainly between China and Vietnam, this group of islands has seen past conflicts and remains a contentious area.
✅Scarborough Shoal: Claimed by China and the Philippines, tensions have risen since China’s takeover in 2012.
✅China’s “Nine-Dash Line” claim overlaps with the maritime territories of other nations, complicating the dispute and leading to regional instability.
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🔆Dead Sea
✅The Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea, is a saline lake in southwestern Asialocated between Jordan and Israel.
✅It lies to the east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of the Sea of Galilee.
✅ It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
✅ It is deepest Hypersaline Lake in the world.
✅ To the west of the Dead Sea, the Judaean Mountains rise less steeply and are much lower than the mountains to the East.
✅It is located at an elevation of 5 meters below sea level, making it the Earth’s lowest land-based feature.
✅Salinity: The Dead Sea is one of the Earth’s saltiest water bodies, almost ten times saltier than ordinary seawaters. It has a salinity of 34.2%.
✅It is the fourth saltiest body of water in the world, ranking behind Antarctica’s Don Juan Pond and Lake Vanda, and Djibouti’s Lake Assal.
✅The Dead Sea has one main inlet (the Jordan River) but does not have an outlet and so loses its water mainly through evaporation.
✅The high saline level and the harsh climate make the lake devoid of life, except for algae and other microorganisms.
✅It has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming in its waters similar to floating.
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🔆Dead Sea
✅The Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea, is a saline lake in southwestern Asialocated between Jordan and Israel.
✅It lies to the east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of the Sea of Galilee.
✅ It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
✅ It is deepest Hypersaline Lake in the world.
✅ To the west of the Dead Sea, the Judaean Mountains rise less steeply and are much lower than the mountains to the East.
✅It is located at an elevation of 5 meters below sea level, making it the Earth’s lowest land-based feature.
✅Salinity: The Dead Sea is one of the Earth’s saltiest water bodies, almost ten times saltier than ordinary seawaters. It has a salinity of 34.2%.
✅It is the fourth saltiest body of water in the world, ranking behind Antarctica’s Don Juan Pond and Lake Vanda, and Djibouti’s Lake Assal.
✅The Dead Sea has one main inlet (the Jordan River) but does not have an outlet and so loses its water mainly through evaporation.
✅The high saline level and the harsh climate make the lake devoid of life, except for algae and other microorganisms.
✅It has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming in its waters similar to floating.
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