New York City (US) is 0.36 times as big as Tokyo (Japan) New York City (NYC), often called simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. Is Tokyo larger than New York City? Tokyo is the most populated metropolitan area in the world, but it’s also much larger than New York …
Chief of police is the most common title for the head of a local police department. Who is the highest rank in police? Director-General of Police (DGP)In India, the Director-General of Police (DGP) is a three-star rank and the highest-ranking police officer in Indian States and Union Territories. All DGPs are Indian Police Service (IPS) …
The “Great Basin” that Great Basin National Park is named after extends from the Sierra Nevada Range in California to the Wasatch Range in Utah, and from southern Oregon to southern Nevada. This is an area where no water drains to an ocean, but drains inward. What is the Great Basin called? The Great Basin …
wedge-shaped. The London Basin is a wedge-shaped declivity bounded to the south by the chalk of North Downs, running north to south, and to the north by the chalk outcrop of the Chiltern Hills, running up in a northeasterly direction from the Goring Gap. Which basin is also known as the London Basin? The London …
HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy’s battleships, the only ship of her class and the last battleship to be built. What was Britain’s best battleship? Not only was HMS Vanguard the last …
The London Basin is an elongated, roughly triangular sedimentary basin approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) long which underlies London and a large area of south east England, south eastern East Anglia and the adjacent North Sea. How was the London Basin formed? The London Basin area is formed from a layer of chalk accumulated on …
‘The London’, is a 17th-century wooden warship, which was once one of the most important vessels in the Commonwealth Navy, sank just off Southend Pier in 1665. What is the shipwreck at Southend on Sea? For more than 300 years, The London warship lay undiscovered at the bottom of the Thames Estuary. While preparing to …
The UK coastline is littered with a sunken treasure of around 90 known shipwrecks, with thousands more potentially just waiting to be discovered. How many shipwrecks are in the UK? According to the public body Historic England, more than 40,000 shipwrecks are strewn around our islands, though only a fraction have been seen first-hand by …
the Solent. On 19th July 1545, while Henry VIII watched, the Mary Rose sank very quickly, in the Solent, between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The Mary Rose was part of an English fleet trying to stop the French ships landing on the Isle of Wight, but sank before firing a single shot. How …
Trincomalee holds the distinction of being the oldest British warship still afloat as HMS Victory, although 52 years her senior, is in dry dock. What is the oldest battleship still afloat? USS ConstitutionUSS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship in the United States Navy. Naval officers and crew still serve aboard her today. The USS …
