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Time
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Hint
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Landform
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-12:00
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Island Amelia Earhart was searching for, but disappeared
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Howland Island
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-11:00
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Active submerged volcano, 28 miles east of Ta'u
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Vailulu'u Seamount
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-10:00
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Volcano continually erupting since 1983
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Kīlauea
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-9:30
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Island in the Marquesas with coral reef on top of mountain
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Fatu Huku
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-9:00
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Northernmost point in the United States
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Point Barrow
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-8:00
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Lake on the border of California and Nevada
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Lake Tahoe
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-7:00
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On-time geyser in Yellowstone National Park
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Old Faithful
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-6:00
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Active volcano 43 miles southeast of Mexico City
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Popocatépetl
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-5:00
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Ecuadorian volcano whose summit is the farthest point from the Earth's center
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Chimborazo
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-4:30
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World's highest waterfall, located in Venezuela
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Angel Falls
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-4:00
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In Bolivia's Potosí and Oruro departments, the world's largest salt pan
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Salar de Uyuni
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-3:30
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National Park in western coastal Newfoundland
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Gros Morne
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-3:00
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Huge waterfall on border of Paraná, Brazil and Misiones, Argentina
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Iguazu Falls
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-2:00
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World's largest island (in this time zone except in a few locations)
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Greenland
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-1:00
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Highest mountain in Cape Verde, with the same name as the island
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Pico de Fogo
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GMT
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The largest reservoir by surface in the world, located in Ghana
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Lake Volta
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+1:00
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Distinctly shaped Swiss mountain
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Matterhorn
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+2:00
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Waterfall on border of Zambia and Zimbabwe
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Victoria Falls
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+3:00
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"Empty Quarter" in Saudi Arabia: the largest sand desert in the world
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Rub' al Khali
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+3:30
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Mountain range encompassing most of western Iran
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Zagros
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+4:00
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Archipelago east of Barents Sea, west of Kala Sea; Severny and Yuzhny Islands
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Novaya Zemlya
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+4:30
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Mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Spin Ghar Mountains
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Khyber Pass
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+5:00
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Rapidly depleting lake on Uzbek/Kazakh border
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Aral Sea
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+5:30
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"Eastern" and "Western" mountain ranges flanking India's seashores
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Ghats
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+5:45
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Highest mountain in the world, known as Sagarmatha and Chomolungma
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Mount Everest
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+6:00
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Largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forests in the world; Bangladesh
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Sundarbans
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+6:30
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Myanmar's largest river, with Mandalay lying at its banks
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Irrawaddy River
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+7:00
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Island across the Strait of Malacca from the Malay Peninsula; Medan is biggest city
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Sumatra
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+8:00
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Lowest, hottest, driest place in all of China
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Turpan Depression
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+9:00
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Highest volume freshwater lake in the world, in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryat Republic
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Lake Baikal
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+9:30
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Sandstone rock formation in Australia's Northern Territory also called Ayers Rock
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Uluru
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+10:00
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Largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea
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New Britain
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+10:30
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Crescent-shaped volcanic remnant island 370 miles directly east of Port Macquarie
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Lord Howe Island
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+11:00
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Most northerly Japanese island with cities like Sapporo and Asahikawa
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Hokkaido
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+11:30
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Australian territory with capital Kingston
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Norfolk Island
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+12:00
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Island almost on Equator; world's smallest republic; depleted phosphate reserves
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Nauru
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+12:45
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New Zealand archipelago territory called Rekohu in the indigenous Moriori
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Chatham Islands
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+13:00
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Main island of the Kingdom of Tonga, where the capital, Nuku'alofa, is located
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Tongatapu
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+14:00
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I-Kiribati and American chain of eleven atolls in central Pacific, stretching 2,300 miles
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Line Islands
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