Examples for
Land Features
With a vast amount of data for hundreds of thousands of landforms around the world, Wolfram|Alpha can compute answers to countless questions about land features. Compare the average heights of the world's longest mountain ranges, search for the population density of a tropical island, compute the ratio between the area and maximum elevation of a glacier, look up the most recent volcanic eruptions around the world and much more.
Delve into extensive facts about mountains and mountain ranges around the world.
Get information about a mountain:
Compare several mountains:
Do computations with mountain properties:
Beaches
Locate a notable beach or analyze its weather forecast.
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Look up a property of a beach:
Find beaches near a city:
Search for information about deserts, such as size, location and type.
Get information about a desert:
Do computations using desert properties:
Forests
Look up a forest or compare forests around the globe.
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Compare forests:
Find forests meeting given criteria:
Look up a volcano or search for volcanic eruptions by location and date.
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Compare volcanoes:
Look up islands and archipelagos or compare them by size, population or elevation.
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Get information about a group of islands:
Do computations with island properties:
Find impact craters on Earth and compare them by size, location and age.
Get information about an impact crater on Earth:
Do computations with crater properties:
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Research detailed statistics about notable glaciers on every continent.
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Caves
Investigate a cave or find caverns near you.