Anthropological Museum in Madrid

         Anthropological Museum in Madrid

In the Anthropological Museum there is a lot of stuff for example: ancient xylophones, an Ethiopian tong, weird helmets and Ecuadorian masks.
Here are some photos I took: 

the weird helmet

 

Niue Rugby

  


                                       Niue Rugby team 

Niue, a small island in the Pacific, has quite a good team for such a small island in the middle of the ocean. They got into the final of the Pacific Cup and won against New Caledonia 27-5 on the 30th of August 2008. When they played against South Africa, they won 48-4.
Their name is Niue Rugby League. The video of the South Africa win is on this link.
                                                  

This is there team logo.

Tuamotu Islands

                                         Tuamotu Islands
The Tuamotu Islands are a group of islands and atolls in French Polynesia.
They form the largest chain of atolls on the planet!
The Tuamotu islands were first settled by Polynesians.
Location: Pacific
Total islands: 78
Area: 850 km^{2
Population: 15.862}

                                  The largest atoll in the Tuamotu Islands:
                                Rangiroa 
Rangiroa means vast sky. 
Location: Pacific
Area: 1,446 sq Km Lagoon and 79 km² (above water)  
Population: 2567

 
 
                       

Skateboarding at O.W.P

 Last Sunday at Oxford Wheels Project 2 Skate teams came: Santa Cruz and Creature UK.  They did great tricks I never seen before.  My mum took great pictures.

 
 

Kwajalein atoll

                                                           Kwajalein
Kwajalein Atoll is the biggest atoll in the Pacific and it's part of the Marshall Islands. Kwajalein is one of the world's largest coral atolls. There are only 1000 English Speaking people out of 13,500 people. It has an area of 3900 sq km but only 16 sq km is land. It has an American army base. It has an outdoor cinema, schools, lots of shops, and a swimming pool.

Namonuito Atoll

                                                   Namonuito Atoll

Namonuito Atoll is also known as Namonweito, Weito, or Magur Islands. It is the largest atoll in Micronesia, and the second largest in the Pacific. The largest is Kwajalein Atoll In the Marshall
Islands.
Population: 1341
Area: 2267 km²

 This is a celebration because someone visited my Blog in Micronesia.

Ocean Island

                                                Ocean Island


Also known as Banaba Island
Location: Pacific 
Country: Kiribati 
Area: 6 km² 
Highest elevation: 81m

Population: 335
 

Nuku Hiva

                                                     Nuku Hiva

Location: Pacific Ocean
Area: 339 km^{2
Highest Elevation: 1224 m
Country: France  and French Polynesia.
Population: 2660}

^{Cool fact: It has a airport.}

El Teide

                       El Teide 

El Teide is an active volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
It is the tallest mountain in Spain.
Its height: 3718m.
Last eruption: November 1909.

 

 El Teide.

Lamotrek Atoll

   


                                              Lamotrek Atoll
  Population: 373 
   Location: North Pacific 
   Area: 0.982 sq km 
   Country: Micronesia 
   Time Zone: Pacific/Chuuk 
   Dome fact: They do not have a runway. 

Remote runways on remote islands

                                Remote runways on remote islands
 
                            With a runway               Without a runway
                    Johnston Atoll                                 Howland Island 
                              Niue                                                 Mangareva
                              Fais Island                                       Maupihaa
                              Orkney                                             Nama
                              Wallis and Futuna                            Deception
                              Pukarua
                              Fangatau
                              Reao
                              Maupiti
                              Enewetak
                              Rimatara 
                              Iwo Jima

Largest passenger plane on earth

                            Largest passenger plane on Earth


      Since my last post was about planes I decided to write another post about planes.
      Which is the largest plane on Earth? It's the Airbus 380
      What is its capacity? The maximum is 519 people.
      How fast can it go? It can go up to 945 km/h, 587mph at cruise altitude 1020 km/h, 634mph.
      But it doesn't Fly to remote islands.

Flying on a small plane around Tenerife

              Flying on a small plane around Tenerife

Now I am in La Laguna in the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
On Wednesday I went to camp, but my parents went on a plane ride around the island, on a small plane.

This is the plane they flew on. A 4 seater plane!

 

These are the plane controls

This is El Teide, the mountain in the island of Tenerife.

This is called Los Gigantes

Just about to land in the airport of Los Rodeos.

Iwo Jima

                               Iwo Jima             



 Population: only military 
 Native name:硫黄島
 Location: Pacific Ocean
 Area: 21 sq km
 Highest elevation: 160.9 meters 
 Country: Japan

   Cool fact: it has a military base and an airport

Alcalá de Henares archaeological museum

                                   Alcalá  de Henares archaeological

                            Museum


On Friday I went to Alcala de Henares (in Spain) archeology museum. I saw a lot of Greek         sculptures, pottery and Roman  mosaics. Here are some pictures I took:

A Greek statue

A Greek head.

Greek pottery

A Roman mosaic from Alcala de Henares

Another Roman mosaic from the same town

And a sculpture.

                                                                   The 
                                  End

Rimatara Island

                                                                   Rimatara island


In Rimatara there are 873 people living there. It is 8.6 sq km and it belongs to French Polynesia. Its highest elevation is 83 m and it has a new airport.

Solar eclipse in a remote island

            Solar eclipse in a remote island
     On March 20 2015 there is going to be a solar eclipse. One of the few places you can see the total eclipse is Faroe Islands.

Two astronomers asked people in the Faroe islands to take pictures during the month of March 2014 at 9:40 in the morning. The idea was to track the cloud coverage in preparation for the eclipse.
This is called citizen science. You can learn about this project here: http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/321-awb-blog/dark/gam-2014-blog/2139-solar-eclipse-education-in-the-faroe-islands.html

Enewetak Atoll

                                     Enewetak Atoll

 Population: 853
  Archipelago: Ralik
  Total islands: 40
  Area: 5.85 sq km
  Highest elevation: 5 m
  Country: Marshall Islands
  Cool fact: Humans have been on Enewetak since 1000 BC
  Cool fact: and it was used for nuclear tests

This is were they did the nuclear tests

I drew with a famous artist

     

Yesterday I drew with Lance Tooks, who drew a picture for me.

I met him yesterday at an art exhibition with my dad and mum. And he drew this picture for me. 

And this is his blog http://lancetooksjournal.blogspot.com.es/

Penguin drawing

      Look at this

Cool, my uncle did this it is my penguin :D

Orkney link

This is a nice blog post in Midlist Writer about Orkney:

http://midlistwriter.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/travel-tuesday-port-at-kirkwall-orkney.html

I adopted a penguin!

                                     I adopted a penguin

Yesterday I adopted a penguin from Deception Island. There is a Spanish base and they are doing research at the moment.
They sent me a certificate.