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Timeline

Follow how records are established, updated and superseded over time.

Timeline events

2022

  1. World's Largest Single Living Organism by Area

    2022-06-01

    Shark Bay Posidonia australis seagrass · about 200 km² · Shark Bay, Western Australia

    NatureCurrent

2020

  1. Highest Mountain Elevation

    2020-12-08

    Mount Qomolangma · 8,848.86 m · China-Nepal boundary

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2019

  1. 2019-01-01

    Hyperion · 116.07 m · Redwood National Park, California, USA

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2011

  1. 2011-01-01

    Antarctic Ice Sheet · about 14,000,000 km² · Antarctica

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1960

  1. 1960-05-22

    1960 Valdivia earthquake · 9.5 Mw · Chile

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1913

  1. 1913-07-10

    Death Valley · 56.7 °C degrees Celsius · Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, USA

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Time not specified

  1. Challenger Deep · about 10,935 m · Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, western Pacific Ocean

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  2. Lake Baikal · 1,642 m · South-eastern Siberia, Russia

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  3. Great Barrier Reef · about 348,000 sq km sq km · North-east coast of Australia

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  4. Vredefort Dome · about 2,023,000,000 years ago · Vredefort Dome, South Africa

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  5. Armillaria ostoyae 'Humongous Fungus' · · Malheur National Forest, Oregon, United States

965 ha
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  • Mauna Loa · 42,500 km³ · Hawaii, United States

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  • Greenland · about 2,175,600 km² · Greenland

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  • Lake Superior · 81,152 km² · United States–Canada border

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  • Global mid-ocean ridge system · 65,000 km · global ocean floor

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  • Denmark Strait cataract · over 3,500,000 m³/s · Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland

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  • Angel Falls · 979 m · Canaima National Park, Bolívar state, Venezuela

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  • Mammoth Cave System · about 686 km · Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, United States

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  • Caspian Sea · about 371,000 km² · Between Europe and Asia

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  • Nevados Ojos del Salado · 6,879 m · Chile-Argentina border

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  • Salar de Uyuni · about 10,000 km² · Salar de Uyuni, Potosí Department, Bolivia

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