FACTOID # 135: The Pitcairn Islands have the world’s shortest highway system, with only 6.4 kilometers of road. They also have the fourth-fewest main phone lines.
 
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Encyclopedia > Isostacy
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Various relief features on the earth exhibit mechanical stability to a great extent. As such the mountains, plains, plateaus etc remain in equilibrium. This principle is called theory of isostacy.


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Geophysicists - Paul Weaver (1126 words)
Bill Heroy, of that group, who later became a geophysicist also, was commissioned to find a mathematician.
He took his problem to William Bowie, whom many geophysicists know of for his work on Isostacy, and Paul's name was suggested.
He was transferred to the Survey and thus began his first professional work in geology.
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