Well, I learned something today. I was going to complain that the Qattara Depression was found in Egypt, not Libya, but then I double checked and discovered that the Libyan Desert is a term for an entire region of the Sahara that extends into Egypt. Didn't know that!!
(I got Qattara anyway, but only because I guessed it out of desperation, not being able to think of a significant depression that would lie west of there, in Libya proper.)
Nice quiz. Please accept Bab al Mandab for the passageway between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Also a couple of errors: the Limpopo does not rise in the Kalahari, it rises on the Witwatersrand, south of the Kalahari. The Niger river does not feed Lake Chad (if it did it probably wouldn't be drying up), it enters the Gulf of Guinea well west of Lake Chad. Thanks
Great quiz that really covers the whole continent nicely! Would you consider accepting "East African Rift" as a synonym for "Great Rift Valley" ? Google tells me they're often used interchangeably.
I know, everyone nit-picks, but change the wording on the Limpopo question. It does not drain into the Indian or any other body of water. It is an inland delta, very unique.
Aren't Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast, and Grain Coast in West Africa, not East Africa?
And wouldn't the Libyan Desert be West of the Nile and not East of it?
(I got Qattara anyway, but only because I guessed it out of desperation, not being able to think of a significant depression that would lie west of there, in Libya proper.)
Only thing, IMHO the gulf of aden question is just wrong.
The actual passageway name is bab el mandeb (or al mandab).
It's the same as using "alboran sea" as an answer for "Gibraltar".
but maybe it's me