A - Z of Geographical Place Names

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Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein - a farm in South Africa. Translates to "The spring where two buffaloes were killed with a single shot."

Unity, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Victoria Island, Canada - the second largest island in Canada, located in the Arctic Archipelago, divided between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Woolloomooloo Bay - a bay at Sydney, Australia also known as Sydney Harbor

Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

Yellowknife River - a river in Canada's Northwest Territories that empties into the Great Slave Lake.

Zambia.

Antarctica -- really big and really cold

Bagillt, a town in Flintshire, Wales.

Channel Islands - a small number of islands located off the coast of France. Jersey and Guernsey are the two larger islands with the most population. Alderney has been described as something like "2,500 alcoholics living on a rock". Until a few (not many) years ago, Sark was the last fiefdom in the world.

Dagenham, a town in Greater London, England.

Eairy Shynnagh - the Manx name for Ronague, a hamlet in the Isle of Man. Near Eairy Shynnagh/Ronague is a magnetic or magic hill -- it produces an optical illusion that makes you think you are headed uphill when you are actually going downhill and so you can magically coast "uphill".

Ferndale, a town in Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

G - Hen of Gairsay - a peninsula on the island of Gairsay in the Orkney Islands of Scotland

Himalayas - mountain system in southern Asia. Its highest peak, and the highest mountain in the world, is Mount Everest, 8,850 m/29,035 ft. Length: 2,400 km/1,500 mi.

Inishkeel Island, Ireland - Located in Gweebarra Bay, you can reportedly walk to it at low tide. It has the ruins of a monastery founded in the 6th century.