Alaska
Home of the NOAA ship Fairweather, Ketchikan, is a town on this Southeast Alaskan island
What is Revillagigedo Island?
World famous dictator, Joesph Stalin was born in this modern day country.
Georgia
This mountain range is home to the highest mountain in the world, Mt Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
Sailed by Odysseus, this sea is full of islands that often are the stage of territorial and airspace disputes between Greece and Turkey.
What is the Aegean Sea?
This river travels past Nome's historic downtown, eventually dumping into the Bering Sea through the Port of Nome piers.
The famous assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne (said to be the most immediate cause of WW1), took place on the streets of which modern day country (City or Country accepted)?
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Traveling from Spain to France might prove troublesome with these ~11,000 ft mountains in the way.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
With an average tidal range of 16.3m this body of water has the highest tidal range in the world.
Bay of Fundy
Known for its famous "Fat Bear Week" this branch of the National Park Service knows how to make a good time out of a salmon not so good day.
What is Katmai National Park?
Argentina invaded this United Kingdom colonial island in 1982 in an undeclared war.
This almost perfectly conical volcano in Ecuador reaches to 19,347 ft and inspired an American outdoor brand.
What is Cotopaxi?
Spanning from Anchorage to Valdez, the skiers and mountaineers drawn to mainland Alaska will have trouble running out of mountains in this mountain range and national forest.
What is Chugach?
Along this line of latitude, was the agreed upon border between North and South Korea before the Korean border. The fight for the 'Parallel' is often a subject of symbolic memorial for Korean war veterans.
What is 38 degrees north (38th parallel)?
The highest paved road in the lower 48 states goes to the top of this Colorado Mountain.
What is Mt. Blue Sky (Mt.Evans)
The Republic of Indonesia has over 17,000 islands under its governance. However this island is considered to be the most populous in the world.
What is Java?
This, now uninhabited, island is the Western most point of the state and was the home of 107 Aluets before the Japanese invaded in 1942.
What is Attu Island? (Fun fact: The island is technically in the eastern hemisphere).
In 1975, Cuban combat forces intervened on the ground in support of the communism-aligned side of this African country's civil war. Cuban efforts were ultimately successful as the Marxist-Leninist government became the majority power in 1975.
What is Angola?