Longitude 110 East Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lowest population density

Mongolia is over 1.5 million square kilometres, but only has two people per sq km. It is roughly the same size as Peru but there are 27 Peruvians per sq km, and Iran, which is slightly larger in area, has 55 people per sq km.

By comparison, the small country of Monaco has 36,000 crammed into its two square kilometres.

Answer: Hainan

The strait is about 20 kilometres across. Hainan is over 33,000 sq kms, which is larger than Belgium. The island is the southermost province of China, with a population of over 10 million. Hong Kong and Macau are both Chinese islands, well to the east. Taiwan is a separate country, and is slightly larger than Hainan.

Answer: Australia

Casey was established in 1969, in Wilkes Land, part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT). It is home to up to 100 scientists studying such things as climate change, under-ice geology and penguins.

Answer: Sarawak

Sarawak occupies a large proportion of the northern shore of Borneo, and it is the largest state of Malaysia. Sabah borders Sarawak to the east and is the second-largest Malaysian state.

Labuan is not a state, but a Federal Territory. It is a small group of islands off the coast of Sabah.

Brunei is a small but very wealthy country on Borneo. It is surrounded by the northeastern corner of Sarawak.

Answer: Laptev Sea

It was named after two Russian explorers, Dmitry and Khariton Laptev, who charted the sea in 1736. Dmitry was a contemporary of Vitus Bering.

As can be expected, the area is cold, VERY cold. Winter temperatures can get as low as -50C, and even in summer, only a maximum of 6C can be expected. The sea is icebound much of the year, especially the northern reaches.

Answer: Yangtze

Only the Nile and Amazon rivers are longer than the Yangtze, at 6,300 kilometres in length. It has dozens of tributaries, and its drainage area covers a large proportion of the country.

The Three Gorges Dam hit its peak output in 2012, and was the largest power station in the world. It is over 2.5 kms long and holds back almost 40 cubic kilometres of water!

The Chao Phraya is the major river in Thailand, the Kalu Ganga is a small river in Sri Lanka, and the Ganges is the Hindu holy river of India.

Answer: Borneo and Java

The Indonesian province of West Kalimantan is the westernmost part of Borneo, and is known as The Province of a Thousand Rivers, for the many watercourses crossing it. The capital city, Pontianak, sits on both 110E AND the Equator.

Java is south of Borneo, and is the most populous island in Indonesia, and also the most populous island on Earth. It is home to more than 150 million people; put into perspective, it is larger than the population of the world's largest country, Russia!

Sulawesi and Irian Jaya are both large Indonesian provinces, but are both well to the east of the 110E meridian. Irian Jaya is not an island by itself, but shares the island of New Guinea with the independent county of Papua New Guinea.

Answer: 60 degrees South

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) determined the line to be the 60th parallel of latitude. The line is also the southern border of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The 110E line crosses this parallel near Antarctica.

The Indian Ocean stretches from the southern tip of Africa, all the way to Tasmania, the southernmost state of Australia. 80 S covers much of the rim of the Antarctic continent, and 90 S is the South Pole.

Answer: Largest freshwater lake, by volume

Because of its depth, Lake Baikal has the most water of any lake, more than the combined total of the American Great Lakes. However, Lake Superior has the greatest surface area. Lake Titicaca, in South America, is the world's highest lake.

Lake Baikal is over 1,600 metres deep in places and is over 600kms in length, and is also one of the oldest on Earth.

Answer: Philippines

The Indonesian states of West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan are on the island of Borneo and form much of the northern border of the sea. Sulawesi is on the eastern end of the sea and the western end is by Sumatra. The island of Java stretches along the southern shores.

The Philippines are to the north of Borneo, and well to the east of 110E.