LONGEST, FASTEST, OLDEST ETC

On a rainy afternoon I was thumbing through some diaries looking for something when I suddenly realized I was thumbing over some rather neat statistics, so when I found what I was after I detoured and wrote down some of the interesting facts. Good for nothing but maybe a category on Jeopardy! Enjoy.

Longest single span bridge—Sydney, Australia. 544 feet long and152


 feet above sea level. Built 1932-34

Longest tram system—Melbourne, Australia

Fairy Penguins found only in Australia

Oldest covered bridge—Lucerne, Switzerland 

 

Longest sky cable—7 ½ K5 mi Karunda, Australia from Caines

Steepest cog railway incline—48%

Longest tunnel—Furka, Swiss

Longest gondola in Europe—Swiss

Oldest building used as Methodist Church—Hawkshead, England

Longest suspension bridge—Capilano in Vancouver, Canada

Steepest funicular—Hong Kong

Largest Organ—St Stephens, Passau , Germany

Oldest restaurant Passau 1358

Largest coopery—Cognac, France at Remy Martin 

 

Oldest hospice—St. John’s, Bruges, Belguim

Oldest Medical School—Bruges 

 

Windmills—largest collection in one place—Kinderdijk, Holland

Highest palace in world—Lhasa, Tibet

Biggest clock—26’ face Zurich, Switzerland 

 

Largest painting in the world, 25 X 81 feet, is in Venice, Italy 

 

The only wave organ in world—Zadar, Croatia

Only rotating gondola –the Rotaire in Switzerland.

In North America the sun rises first at Cape Spear, Newfoundlander

The largest wine barrel—58,125 gallons—Heidelberg, Germany

Largest wine cellar—750-feet long—Wurtzberg, Germany

Largest public square in world---Tienanmen, Sq, Beijing, China.

Only winged Madonna—Quito, Ecuador.

Longest cave system—20 Km is Postujna, Slovenia

largest tree Latin America—Tule tree in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Only jaguar preserve in world—Belize

Largest tapestry 20 X 9 meters in Canberra, Australia. Lots of other big tapestries around world.

Oldest zoo at Schonbrunn, Castle, Vienna, Austria. Second oldest Budapest,Hungary.


Highest navigable lake in world---Lake Titicaca, Peru

The largest stain glass window in the world in the Yorkminster in York, England. Its 117 square 

panes represent 1680 square feet and is the equivalent size of a tennis court.

Any building in Scotland that has smoke stacks, or chimney pots as they are called, you know was 

built before 1967 when the clean air act was passed.