These are some of the last places on Earth you will find, amongst others, footsteps of dinosaurs, unclaimed land and rare languages!
TOFA: is one of the strangest and rarest language ever spoken. It is only spoken by about 25 people of nomads in the Eastern Sayan mountains in Southern Siberia. In the 1950s the Soviet Government forced them to learn Russian and abandon their traditional ways. Another unusual language is the body counting system used by some tribes in Papua New Guinea.
SWAINS ISLAND: A remote atoll, in the South Pacific Ocean, administered as part of American Samoa since 1925. It was the last place of earth to make radio contact with the rest of the world. The American Radio Relay League administers a list of locations that qualify, and Swains Island was added in 2006. Swains Island was only on air for six days!
MARIE BYRD LAND: was the last place on Earth unclaimed by any other nation. Claims on Antarctica were frozen (no pun intended) in 1961, even so nobody had claimed this 1.6 million sq metres, around a tenth of the Antarctic. It is the only unclaimed bit of the land on the Earth.
ARAL SEA: was the last on earth to be unmapped. Once a popular Russian seaside resort in Uzbekistan and the fourth largest lake in the world (68,000 sq km) the Aral Sea has now dried up, leaving around 50,000 sq km of uncharted desert. All that’s left of the mighty ‘Amu Darya River’, the sea’s main source, is a canal carrying a trickle of farm drainage. Satellite photos show up brilliant white due to the salt deposits and pesticides used. A few have tried to drive across the sea bed to confirm the satellite’s report, but have not got very far!
SEVENTEEN AYOREO: were the last people on earth to contact civilization. a previously uncontacted group of 17 Ayoreo Indians emerged from the jungle in Paraguay, reluctantly made contact with other Ayoreo and asked for their help. Cattle ranchers had taken over their territory and cut off their water supply. The Sentinelese live on the North Sentinel island, part of the Andaman island group, and definitely do not want outside contact. When the Indian government sent a helicopter out in the wake of the 2004 tsunami they fired arrows at it. Many tribes are virtually wiped out by disease and violence when they make contact with the outside world according to Survival International.
GANGKHAR PUESUM: is the highest last mountain on earth not to be conquered. Standing at 7541 meters in the Kingdom of Bhutan. It’s been attempted on three occasions but climbers have failed to reach the summit. Since then Bhutan has banned the climbing of peaks over 6000 metres because of local spiritual beliefs.
COLORADO: was the last place on earth where dinosaurs walked. The very last evidence of living dinosaurs is the tracks made by a family of duck-billed plant eaters in Ludlow, Colorado. It’s estimated that the tracks would have been formed around 65 million years ago.
JACK HILLS, Western Australia: is the last place on earth that is a piece of original Earth’s crust has been discovered. It contains rock formations 3.8 billion years old and within them have been found zircons from 4.4 billion years ago. Their composition has been interpreted to show that free water existed on the earth at this time, although it is still the subject of debate.
EAST ANTARCTICA; is the last place on earth to keep a permanent ice cover. It constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian Ocean. It is separated from Western Antarctica by the Tranantarctic mountains.
EMPEDOCIES: was the last places on earth to have an Italian flag planted, even though it’s presently submerged. Empedocles, a sub-marine volcano 40 kilometres off the coast of Sicily, erupted in 1831 creating a 4 square kilometres island. The Italians, the British, the French and the Spanish all made territorial claims. However, before the dispute could be settled it sank! In 2002, Empedocles rumbled again and although the island was still ten metres below the surface, the Italians, taking no chances, sent a diver down with an Italian flag.
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