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The highest area in Georgia is Brasstown Bald which is 1,458 m (4,783 ft) above sea level, while the lowest is at sea level, at the Atlantic Ocean. Georgia is located at approximately 33° N 83.5° W. The state has a total area of 154,077 km 2 (59,489 sq mi) and the geographic center is located in Twiggs County. [3]
Along the Black Sea coast, from Abkhazia to the Turkish border, and in the region known as the Colchis Lowland inland from the coast, the dominant subtropical climate features high humidity and heavy precipitation (1,000 to 2,000 mm or 39.4 to 78.7 in per year; the Black Sea port of Batumi receives 2,500 mm or 98.4 in per year). [12]
From the discovery of gold in the Georgia Gold Belt in 1828, enough gold was mined in the area to cause a branch mint of the United States Mint to be located in Dahlonega, Georgia. The region also includes igneous intrusions of granite and diabase. [6] Marble and talc are other resources produced in the Blue Ridge in Georgia. [5]
The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the east, near Australia. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the five. It joins the Atlantic Ocean near Greenland and Iceland and joins the Pacific Ocean at the Bering Strait. It overlies the North Pole, touching North America in the Western Hemisphere and Scandinavia and Siberia in the Eastern ...
1.1 Atlantic Ocean. 1.2 Gulf of Mexico. ... Deep Creek. Liberty Creek; Shoal Creek. ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Georgia (1974) Graham, Paul K. (2010). ...
Black Sea coast of western Georgia, with the skyline of Batumi on the horizon Swallow's Nest in Crimea Coastline of Samsun in Turkey A sanatorium in Sochi, Russia. The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Tidal ranges are only 2 feet (0.61 m) at the extremes of the bight, Cape Fear and Miami, but reach 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3.0 m) along the Georgia coast in the middle of the bight. [2] The Sea Islands stretch along the central part of the Georgia Bight shore, from the mouth of the Santee River to the mouth of the St. Johns River. The Sea Islands ...
1911 South Polar Regions exploration map (from Southern Ocean) Image 71 The three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands : Micronesia , Melanesia and Polynesia (from Pacific Ocean ) Image 72 The economically important Silk Road was blocked from Europe by the Ottoman Empire in c. 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire .