Mount Chimborazo is the place on Earth closest to the Sun
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The retrieved evidence mentions Mount Chimborazo and discusses extremities of the Earth's measurements, but contains no sources directly establishing that the mountain is the closest point to the Sun.
If you were asked the location of the furthest point from the center of the Earth, you would likely be inclined to state the summit of Mount Everest as an obvious choice. Looking at the 1862 pictorial map below would seem to confirm that it would be in the Himalayan Mountains of Asia. Fascinatingly, due …
Myotis oxyotus You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. Biodiversity Literature Repository Biodiversity Literature Repository by Plazi https://www.biolitrepo.org Submit to community Liberated Data Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1 Taxonomic treatment Open Myotis oxyotus Authors/Creators James H. Honacki Kenneth E. Kinman James W. Koeppl Description Myotis oxyotus (Peters, 1867). Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 19. TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Mount Chimborazo, between 2743 and 3048 m. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela to Bolivia; Panama; Costa Rica. COMMENT: Revised by LaVal, 1973, Bull. Los Ang. Cty. Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci. Soc., 15.
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