30 Insane Things About Canada You Won't Believe

Beneath the vastness of this country are four-billion-year-old rocks, lakes that vanish underground, cliffs that have been burning for centuries, ancient meteorite craters, frozen wilderness, and landscapes that look more like another planet than Canada. The deeper you look, the stranger it gets. From the Canadian Shield and the Acasta Gneiss to the mysterious Medicine Lake, Arctic plants growing far south of the Arctic, the burning cliffs of Cape Bathurst, the shifting sands of Sable Island, and the Athabasca Sand Dunes, Canada's geography is full of places that seem almost impossible. You'll find the Pingualuit meteorite crater, thousands of ice-covered pingos, ancient forests near the North Pole, the deepest lake in North America, the mysterious Nastapoka Arc, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth, and the incredible Wreckhouse winds of Newfoundland. There's also the ancient Bluefish Caves, the changing Hudson Bay coastline, the moving magnetic north pole, and a river in Yukon that suddenly changed direction in just four days. From the Arctic to Newfoundland, British Columbia to Quebec, Saskatchewan to the Northwest Territories, these 30 Canada geography facts reveal just how extreme, ancient, and unusual the country's landscape really is. What is the one thing about Canada that outsiders never understand? Tell us in the comments. #canada #northamerica #maps #canadiangeography #canadatravel #canadianarctic #geography #geographyfacts #history #historyfacts #facts #interestingfacts #coggnize