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Welsh Geography
Top 10 Largest Welsh Mountains, all are in the north of Snowdonia.
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1 Snowdon / Eryri 1085 Metres in the Snowdon Massif
2 Garnedd Ugain 1065 metres in the Snowdon Massif
3 Carnedd Dafydd 1044 Metres in the Carneddau
4 Glyder Fawr 999 Metres in the Glyderau
5 Glyder Fach 994 Metres in the Glyderau
6 Pen yr Ole Wen 978 Metres in the Carneddau
7 Foel Grach 976 Metres in the Carneddau
8 Yr Elen 962 Metres in the Carneddau
9 Y Garn 947 Metres in the Glyderau
10 Foel-fras 943 Metres in the Carneddau
14 Mountains in Wales are above 3000 Feet
Top Longest Rivers that include Welsh territory
The Severn 220 miles (With the Severn Boar - The second largest of these on Earth)
The Wye 135 Miles
The Usk 85 Miles (Longest that is entirely in Wales) (It is the deepest river in the British Isles at its mouth and has the second largest tidal range in the world after the Bay of Fundy in Canada)
The Dee 70 Miles
Pistyll Rhaeadr The tallest waterfall in Wales. This is inm Powys, and is 75 metres high.
These are the temperature extreme records for Wales, upto December 2006, since records began.
Highest maximum temperature: 35.2°C (95.4°F) at Hawarden Bridge, Flintshire on 2 August 1990.
Lowest minimum temperature: -23.3°C (-10°F) at Rhayader, Radnorshire on 21 January 1940. Obviously there would have been colder, times and warmer times, such as in the Age, millenia ago before records began.
The largest natural lake in Wales, is Llyn Tegid, or Bala Lake, It is 4 miles / 6.4 km long by a mile / 1.6 km wide)and is subject to sudden and dangerous floods. It is crossed by the River Dee and its waters are famously deep and clear. Llyn Tegid has abundant pike, European perch, trout, eel and gwyniad. It also contains the very rare mollusc Myxas glutinosa - the Glutinous snail. According to legend the lake is inhabited by a monster known affectionately as Teggie. There is a man made piece of water in North East Wales.
The deepest cave in Wales, has waterfalls, and great underground Stalactites and stalagmites, Ogof Ffynnon Ddu. It goes 308 metres deep. And is 28 Miles long.
Cadair Idris is 893 metres deep Cwm.Wales's most impressive cwm.
A yew tree in Llangernyw North Wales, is estimated to be 5000 years old.
Best Welsh Buildings include, Tintern Abbey, Caernarfon Castle even if it was built by undeniably evil rulers, if Wales had been free of such oppressive feudal rulers for longer, even more great buildings would have built, the Welsh Parliament, millenium stadium, St Davids Cathderal, Castell Henlys, The Svern Bridge, the Conwy Tunnel;, Chepstow Castle, Bedgelert memorial thing, Neolithic monument the most famous one in Glamorgan, Llechwedd SLate quarry, the actual mine, and the piles of slate. Big pit, Chirk Castle, Newport Transport Bridge, that high rock outcrop in Nefyn, Llangollen Bridge, Porthmadog kob, Machynlleth old parliament building, North East Wales boat, that is onland, Llandudno pier, Caerleon Amphitheatre, Caerleon barracks, Caerleon bridge, Lloyd George museum, Llanfair PG signposts, Dolwyddellan castle, Holywell well, Holyhead bridge, that Dam near Bangor, Bangor boulder, Caerwent, the aquaduct in North East Wales. boulder by the lake between Bangor and Caepel Curig, huge it's like modern art. And that huge Neolithic age, stone tombs in Ynys Mon, and Barmouth beach
Why not get a T Shirt with the Welsh flag on it
10 Largest Islands of Wales
1
Anglesey 275.60 713.80
2 Holy Island 15.22 39.44
3 Skomer Island 1.12 2.90
4
Ramsey Island 0.99 2.58
5 Caldey Island 0.84 2.18
6 Bardsey Island 0.76
1.99
7 Skokholm 0.41 1.06
8 Flat Holm 0.13 0.33
9 Puffin Island 0.11
0.28
10 Cardigan Island 0.06 0.15
Here are some more sites, there are books and articles on the subjects in many internet places, or internet book shops,
A graph of all human history very interesting, to the story of humankind, brilliant
The 10 Largest Welsh towns and cities
A Guide to Wales 10s of sites on Wales, a Directory on Wales
A Couple of pictures of Scotland's great scenery
How castles are very important to Welsh history
A few pictures of Welsh Geography
The 10 Best Welsh sporting results ever
A Multiple Choice Quiz on Welsh History
A List of which Welsh football teams have won the most trophies
Buy this I Saw Teggie T Shirt for 15 Pounds
A site on St David the Patron Saint of Wales
Great reasons to be proud to be Welsh
The 10 Highest mountains in Northern Ireland
A site on dangerous animals, such as which are bigger than people, and which are poisonous
The 11 Highest Volcanoes on Earth in 2006
A site on magical things in nature, like herbs and such, and more exiting things,
A site listing the strange and unsual animals of the world
A Multiple Choice quiz on animals
A site in the worst regimes of the 20thC
A site commending Political Correctness
A game I created where you are chased by a Monster from a lake in the Highlands
A list of some exiting Adventures across history
The 10 Most Succesful Welsh Politicians ever list
A site saying what are the top 10 English speaking countries in the world, in terms of population
Sherlock Holmes the Computer Game, based on the Hound Of The Baskervilles
What the World would be like if there were no Greens
A site saying what are the 10 largest Celtic cities on Earth.
A Multiple Choice Quiz on evolution
The story of the Golden Goose, and other mythical get rich quick schemes
What would happen if Sheep ruled over people
A site wondering if Hominids other than people, could have survived to the modern era
Our History Lounge - Where you can peruse many fascinating historical articles.- The History Lounge, where you can peruse and mull over some fascinating articles, and issues,
A Not very amazing picture of a Black Swan
A list of some unusual animals
A Quiz on Caerleon A Quiz on Newport
A Quiz on Llanrwst A Quiz on North Wales A Quiz on Llandudno