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Friday, March 16th, 2007Biggest, Highest, Furthest, Grandest… It is amazing to me the claims made everywhere about their local geography. Nasca has Cerro Blanco which they claim to be the world’s tallest sand dune at about 1400 meters. Namibia claims the same, too, with a dune in Sousevlei at 900 meters. I looked up tallest sand dune on Wikipedia and it just gets more confusing. Try determining the biggest or grandest canyon. We can all agree that Everest is the tallest mountain yet in Hawaii they will tell you that the Big Island is just that because they are counting from its base at the bottom of the ocean! It seems like a book is needed to chronicle the true ESTs of the world objectively and completely. National Geographic measured Cotahausi Canyon in Peru and named it as the deepest in world at about 160 meters deeper than the previous holder – the nearby Colca Canyon. But China and the Himalayas claim to have canyons that are deeper. Given our technology and coverage of this planet, can’t we come up with common definitions and agree on the true ESTs?