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.
One of the four nations in the United Kingdom, England is bordered by Scotland to the North and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea to the northwest, and the Celtic Sea to the southwest, the North Sea to the East, and the English Channel to the south.Just across the English Channel is France.ondon is the capital of England. Located along the Thames River, London is a leading global city and is the largest financial center of the world, with the largest GDP of Europe.