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UK Geography, Science and Culture

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Highest peaks
Ben Nevis 1,345 m (Scotland); Snowdon 1,085 m (Wales); Scafell Pike 978 m (England); Slieve Donard 850 m (N. Ireland).
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Longest river
The Severn, about 220 miles, rising in Wales.
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Longest river wholly in England
The Thames, about 215 miles.
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Largest lake by area
Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland.
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Largest freshwater volume in Britain
Loch Ness.
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Largest natural lake in England
Windermere.
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Most northerly island group
Shetland.
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Cairngorms
Largest national park in the UK.
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Peak District
First UK national park, 1951.
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Giant's Causeway
Basalt columns on the Antrim coast, a World Heritage Site.
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Flow Country
Peat bogs in Caithness and Sutherland, World Heritage Site since 2024.
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Last coal power station
Ratcliffe-on-Soar closed on 30 September 2024.
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Summer 2025
Warmest summer on record in the UK, says the Met Office.
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Record UK temperature
40.3 degrees Celsius, 19 July 2022.
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Burns Night
25 January, for Robert Burns.
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St David's Day
1 March, patron saint of Wales.
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St Patrick's Day
17 March, patron saint of Ireland.
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St Andrew's Day
30 November, patron saint of Scotland.
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Hogmanay
31 December, Scottish New Year.
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Shakespeare
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564; wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello.
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Dickens
Wrote Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.
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Jane Austen
Wrote Pride and Prejudice.
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Tolkien
Wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; Oxford professor.
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Alan Turing
Codebreaker at Bletchley Park.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Proposed the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN.
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DNA 1953
Watson and Crick, using Rosalind Franklin's data.
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Paris 2024
Team GB won 14 gold and 65 medals in all.
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Euro 2025
England's women beat Spain on penalties in the final.
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Coronation
Charles III crowned on 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey.

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