Gail Shaw wrote:

> Actually, if you look at the climate of the places on the equator, it's more
> like tropical forest. Hot and humid all year round. The deserts tend to be a
> little further away.

Really? How counterintuitive...

> The Sahara lies mostly between the 15 degrees N and 30 degrees N latitudes.
> The Namib desert lies mostly around the 20-28 degrees S latitudes

See, now I didn't even know the Namib was *in* Africa. (But then, until 
yesterday I didn't know where the Gobi was either...)

> In addition, I don't live at the equator. There's a reason the country is
> called South Africa, not Central African Rebublic or Equatorial ... (both of
> which do exist and do lie on the equator)
> 
> Johanesburg is somewhere around 2000 km south of the equator, at latitude 26
> degrees 12 minutes South

Mmm, OK. Africa is clearly significantly larger than I thought. ;-)

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