Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon (Geography) – June 14, 2020

80* E longitude passes near through Kanpur (UP), Jabalpur (MP), Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

National Parks in Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

NOTE: Indira Gandhi (Annamalai) National Park located in Tamil Nadu.

Black Buck National Park is located in Gujarat; Dinosaur Fossil National Park is located in Madhya Pradesh, Guru Ghasidas National Park located in Chhattisgarh and Betla National Park is located in Jharkhand.

Ropar is located in Punjab, Kalibangan in Rajasthan, Dholavira and Kuntasi both located in Gujarat.

Positioned in far-western Asia, just to the east of the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea is located in the countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Tensions between China and both the Philippines and Vietnam have recently cooled, even as China increased its military activity in the South China Sea by conducting a series of naval maneuvers and exercises in March and April 2018. Meanwhile, China continues to construct military and industrial outposts on artificial islands it has built in disputed waters.

The Indian Ocean is the world’s third largest ocean and covers 70,560,000 km². Three continents have coastlines on the Indian Ocean; these are Asia, Africa, and Australia to the north, west, and east respectively. The Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean to the south. The Indian Ocean is home to hundreds of islands. Six island nations are located in the Indian Ocean, namely Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka.

The Arctic Council calls itself “the leading intergovernmental forum” for discussing and addressing issues concerning the Arctic region, including scientific research, and peaceful and sustainable use of resources in the region.

• The Council was established by the eight Arctic States— the countries whose territories fall in the Arctic region — through the Ottawa Declaration of 1996.
• The eight Arctic States — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States— are the only members of the Arctic Council.
• Indiahad been given the Observer status in 2013, along with five other countries — China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.
• Prior to this group, only France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom were granted Observer status. In 2017, Switzerland too became an Observer.

The World Records has declared Majuli in Assam as the largest river island in the world. It has toppled Marajo in Brazil to clinch the record. The beautiful river island is situated on the Brahmaputra River.

Here is all that you should know about Majuli:

1. It is formed by Brahmaputra River in the south and Kherkutia Xuti, an anabranch of the Brahmaputra, joined by the Subansiri River in the north.
2. The island is inhabited by Mising tribes, Deori and Sonowal Kachri tribes.
3. The people of the island speak Mising, Assamese and Deori language.
4. It covers an area of around 880 sq km.
5. It is one of the important tourist destinations of Assam.
6. Due to the frequent flooding of the Brahmaputra River, Majuli suffers heavy erosion. In the last 30-40 years it is estimated that it has lost about one third of its area.
7. It is home to about 1,60,000 people.
8. It is the hub of Assamese neo-Vaishnavite culture.
9. It was recently declared a district and was earlier a subdivision under Jorhat district.
10. It has been included in the tentative list of World Heritage Site by UNESCO.