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1. Freshwater Lake with the Greatest Underwater Visibility

   Rotomairewhenua (Blue Lake) · 81.4 m · Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand

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2. World's Longest Ocean Trench

   Peru–Chile Trench · about 5,900 km · Southeast Pacific off Peru and Chile

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3. World's Highest Lightning Flash Density Hotspot

   Lake Maracaibo Lightning Hotspot · about 233 flashes/km²/year · Lake Maracaibo Lightning Hotspot

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4. Largest Confirmed Terrestrial Impact Structure

   Vredefort Dome · about 250–300 (reconstructed range) km

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5. World's Oldest Lake

   Lake Baikal · about 25 million years

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6. World's Longest Strait

   Mozambique Channel · about 1,600 km · Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar

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7. Highest Commercially Navigable Lake

   Lake Titicaca · about 3,810 m · Lake Titicaca

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8. Smallest Documented Sexually Mature Vertebrate Individual

   Photocorynus spiniceps · 6.2 mm · Philippine Sea (exact sampling coordinates unreported)

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9. Location with Most Reported Rainy Days in a Year

   Mount Waiʻaleʻale · up to 350 days/year · Mount Waiʻaleʻale

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10. Fastest Seasonal Ocean Current

    Somali Current · about 12.8 km/h · Western Indian Ocean off Somalia

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11. Longest Hotspot Volcanic and Seamount Chain

    Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain · about 6,100 km · North Pacific, Hawaiian Islands to Emperor Seamounts

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