This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South America, a continent that has the world’s largest river by volume, the River Amazon; the longest mountain range, the Andes ...

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean ...

Technically the longest road in the world, it connects the northernmost part of North America to the southernmost tip of South America ... In 1937, the plan took shape when 14 countries signed ...

Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa ... seemed to match up: the shape of the continents, fossil evidence ...

The continents are attached to the plates and do not move independently of them. But the plates themselves shift and change shape, carrying the continents along.