10 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

👉 Kanchenjunga

👉  Kanchenjunga, situated at an altitude of 8, 598 m above the sea level is the highest point of India.

👉  Kuttanad, in the state of Kerala, which is located at −2.2 m below the sea level, is the lowest point of  the nation.

👉   Brahmaputra River, flowing over an area of 2, 900 km is the country's longest river.

👉   India covers 2.4% of the Earth's surface. Total land area of India is 32,87,263 sq.km.

👉  Deccan Plateau is the largest plateau of India and the Ladakh Plateau is the Highest Plateau of India.

👉  India is divided into 28 states, 8 union territories and 01 national capital territory.

👉  Mawsynram town, situated in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya in northeastern India, is the wettest place on the earth.

👉  India has the world's first Floating Post Office on Dal Lake in the Srinagar District of Jammu and Kashmir.

👉  India has the largest postal network in the world. it actualy has more than 1,55,035 post offices.

👉 Lonar Lake

👉  Lonar Lake in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra is considered to be formed by the impact of a meteor. It is also the only basalt rock and  the third largest crater lake in the world.

El Nino and La-Nina

El Nino and Indian Monsoon

 El Nino is a narrow hot stream that flows near the Peruvian coast in December. In Spanish it is called "Child Christ" because this stream takes birth around Christmas.

It is a temporary replacement for a Perubian or Humboldt cold stream that usually flows along the coast.

It flows once every three to seven years and is prone to widespread floods and droughts in tropical regions of the world. Sometimes it becomes very intense and raises the water temperature of the Peruvian coast by 10 ° C.

    This heat of the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean affects the air pressure at the global level and the winds including the monsoon of the Indian Ocean.

    Studies by El Nino suggest that India experiences less rainfall when temperatures rise in the southern Pacific Ocean.

    El-Nino has a great impact on the Indian monsoon and is used to predict the long period of the monsoon.

    Meteorologists think that the 1987 severe drought in India was caused by El-Nino.

    In 1990–1991, El-Nino was seen as a severe form. Due to this, the arrival of monsoon in most parts of the country was delayed by 5 to 12 days.

La-Nina

The weather returns to normal after El Nino. But sometimes sunflower winds become so strong that they cause unusual deposition of cold water in the central and eastern Pacific. It is called La-Nina which is exactly opposite to El-Nino. La-Nina produces the cyclonic season. But it brings good news in India because it causes heavy monsoon rains.

BOBBLE

Under the BOBBLE (Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment - BoBBLE), the Indian Science Institute of Bangalore and the University of East Anglia of the United Kingdom have jointly formed an action plan for accurate forecasting of monsoon, tropical cyclones and weather.

                                     

                                          What is BOBBLE

BOBBLE is a joint India-United Kingdom project that examines the impact of oceanic processes operating in the Bay of Bengal on the monsoon system.

Finance for this project is provided by the Ministry of Earth Sciences of India and the Natural Research Council of the United Kingdom.

It is known that the Bay of Bengal plays a fundamental role in the context of the monsoon in the South-Asian region.

Main Processes Running in the Bay of South Bengal

    The southwest monsoon current is a major stream controlling salt and sea surface temperatures in the Bay of Bengal which is itself controlled by local (wind pressure curl) and remote (equatorial wave propagation) factors. . This stream is related to the change in weather over a wide area of ​​the Indian Ocean.

    The excess of salt in the south-west monsoon stream is due to the western equatorial Indian Ocean, which is connected to the Bay of Bengal through the Somalian stream, the equatorial current and the southwest monsoon stream.

    Seasonal changes at the Somalian stream and southwest monsoon stream junctions act as railroad switches and divert waterfowl to the different valleys of the North-Indian Ocean.

    How much Chlorophyll in the Bay of South Bengal is determined directly by the mixed layer processes and the strength of the barrier layer.

What is monsoon?

    Monsoons are those seasonal winds that change their direction with the change in the weather. In summer, these winds flow from the sea towards the earth and in winter, from the earth to the sea.

Monsoon occurs in these regions - Indian subcontinent, South-East Asia, parts of Central-West Africa etc. In the Indian monsoon there is a large amount of heat convection.

The monsoon is associated with every second to seventh year event like El Nino and La Lina.

Important Revolts/Movements against British Empire

S.N.	Movement/ Revolt	Affected Regions	Related Leader/Leadership	Time of the Movement/Revolt
1	Sanyasi Revolt	Bihar, Bangal	Kena Sarkar	1760-1800
2	Fakeer Revolt	Bangal	Majnunshah, Chirag ali	1776-77
3	Chuaro Revolt	Bankuda (Bangal)	Durjan Singh	1798
4	Poligar Revolt	Tamilnadu	Veer P, Kattavamman	1799-1801
5	Velatampi Revolt	Travankor	Meluthampi	1808-09
6	Bheel Revolt	Western Ghaat	Sewaram	1825-31
7	Ramosi Rovolt	Western Ghaat	Chittar Singh	1822-29
8	Pagalpanthi Revolt	Asam	Tipu	1825-27
9	Ahom Revolt	Asam	Gomadhar Kunwar	1828
10	Bahavi Movement	Bihar, U.P.	Sayyad Ahamad Tutimir	1831
11	Kole Movement	Chota Nagpur	Gomadhar Kunwar	1831-32
12	Khashi Revolt	Asam	Tirat Singh	1833
13	Farayazi Movement	Bangal	Sariyatulla Tutu Miya	1838-48
14	Neel Revolt	Bangal, Bihar	Tirut Singh	1854-62
15	Santhal Revolt	Bangal, Bihar	Siddhu-Kanhu	1855-56
16	Munda Revolt	Bihar	Birsa Munda	1899-1900
17	Pike Revolt	Urisa	Bakshi Jagbandhu	1817-25
18	Neel Movement	Bangal	Digamber	1859-60
19	Pabana Revolt	Pabana(Bangal)	Ishan Chandra	1873-76
20	Dakkan Revolt	Maharashtra	-	1874-75
21	Mopla Revolt	Malabar (Kerala)	Ali Musliyar	1920-22
22	Kuka Movement	Panjab	Bhagat Jawahar Mall	-
23	Rampao Revolt	Andhra Pradesh	Sitaram Raju	1879-1922
24	Tana Bhagat Movement	Bihar	Jatra Bhagat	1914
25	Tembhaga Movement	Bangal	KampaRam Singh	1946
26	Telangana Movement	Andhra Pradesh	-	1946