Nope,
It really is the height measured from sealevel and it is higher than Mount Fuji / Japan, Mauna Kea / Hawaii!
It really is the height measured from sealevel and it is higher than Mount Fuji / Japan, Mauna Kea / Hawaii!
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Mt Kinabalu on the island of Borneo per any chance?
sonorakitch
Overseas hunter
There is a mountain in New Guinea that is damn tall, I think around 17,000 feet. Something Jaya.....but I can't remember. That should be it.
~Chris
~Chris
Mount Djaja, you are right sonorakitch I think. That's funny, I remember that name because I'm half Polish and Dzia-dzia in Polish (pronounced the same way that Djaja looks) means 'grandad'. So to a Polish person, that's Mount Grandad. Kind of appropriate, I thought.
Let's see what Beammeuppy thinks......
Let's see what Beammeuppy thinks......
Sonorakitch got it right! 
It is called Puncak Jaya and is 5030 m high. Times 3,3 makes 16,000 ft.
This one was hammered in my head when I was at school. New Guinea is a former Dutch colony and it was for some reason essential that we knew we once had a mountain in our territory that was over 5 km. Since Holland is extremely flat this sure has an impact. btw, in the Dutch days the mountain range was called Karsten mountains.
Sonorakitch, your turn!
It is called Puncak Jaya and is 5030 m high. Times 3,3 makes 16,000 ft.This one was hammered in my head when I was at school. New Guinea is a former Dutch colony and it was for some reason essential that we knew we once had a mountain in our territory that was over 5 km. Since Holland is extremely flat this sure has an impact. btw, in the Dutch days the mountain range was called Karsten mountains.
Sonorakitch, your turn!
sonorakitch
Overseas hunter
Alrighty...I knew it was something Jaya...
Here is the next question:
What is the wettest inhabited place on earth?
~Chris
Here is the next question:
What is the wettest inhabited place on earth?
~Chris
knowltok2
Deity
IIRC, there are some places in Hawaii that get the most rainfall of anyplace. I don't know if they count as inhabited.
Along another line of reasoning, Venice could make a claim at that title, couldn't it?
Along another line of reasoning, Venice could make a claim at that title, couldn't it?
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
Yeah, that really depends on what you mean. The manned stations in Antarctica are also places and technically it's always wet there. 
andycapp
Grumpy Old Griper
Originally posted by Hitro
Yeah, that really depends on what you mean. The manned stations in Antarctica are also places and technically it's always wet there.
If I remember correctly Antartica is the driest continent.
knowltok2
Deity
It is technically a desert, based upon yearly rainfall. I think Hitro's point is that most habitations on Antarctica are built on H2O.
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There is a pleace in the eastern part of India that is very wet with rain at over 90% of the days. Not sure about the name, I believe it is Chitagoong or something like that.
[dance] There is a pleace in the eastern part of India that is very wet with rain at over 90% of the days. Not sure about the name, I believe it is Chitagoong or something like that.
Andu Indorin
Retired Druid
Originally posted by Beammeuppy
Sonorakitch got it right!
I stickler for Mountains. According to my National Geographic Atlas, Puncak Jaya is 5029 m high; x 3.2808 = 16,499 ft.
As for the actual question:
What is the wettest inhabited place on earth?
How about Bangladesh during the Monsoons? Seems every year the inhabitants are up to their waists in water ... (and it could be Venice soon!)
Though in actuality, Beammeuppy and Polymath are both close. The town of Mawsynram, in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya (just south of Assam), is considered the wettest place on Earth, with 11,000+ mm of rainfall a year.
sonorakitch
Overseas hunter
Bangledesh is in the top ten. Actually, I will be in Dhaka in July...so hopefully it doesn't get too wet....
Anyways, the continent is S. America....for a hint.
~Chris
Anyways, the continent is S. America....for a hint.
~Chris
philippe
FYI, I chase trains.
in the rainforset there is a place where it rains23/24 hours at a day but if i just could remember the place....
Next bet is on the Southern part of Chile, lets say around Puerto Mont, give and take 500 km North / South ?
sonorakitch
Overseas hunter
Well, you aren't very close. I will give it a couple more hours and then toss out the answer. I am heading out tomorrow and won't be back to a terminal until July.
~Chris
~Chris
allhailIndia
Deity
AFAIK it is Cherrapunji in Meghalaya, India which is the wettest place on the Earth
Daaraa
King
The southern tip of Chile I believe is called Tierra Del Fuego and I don't think it it is wettest.
I would say somewhere northern amazon close to the equator. The humidity would make it rain nonstop.
I would say somewhere northern amazon close to the equator. The humidity would make it rain nonstop.
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