Understand [edit]. Colombia is the only country in South America with coastlines on both the North Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea as well as the country with the world's second most biodiversity. Lying to the south of Panama, Colombia controls the land access between Central and South America.
North of Britain rises while the south sinks. 7 October 2009, by Marion O'Sullivan. Southern England is slowly sinking while Scotland is rising up, according to a new map created by Durham scientists that shows how land and sea levels around the British coastline are rising or subsiding.Durham University research team taking sediment cores at Loch nan Corr.n contrast, parts of England, Wales and Southern Ireland could sink by up to 5cm over the next century, adding between 10 and 33 per cent to projected sea level rises. Long term rate of relative land-and sea-level change in the British Isles.
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes.The vessel went down 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors.usitania sank in only 18 minutes, 11.5 miles (19 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale. It took several hours for help to arrive from the Irish coast, but by the time help had arrived, many in the 52 Â°F (11.1 Â°C) water had succumbed to the cold.