Consider the following statements:

Yu Shan is the highest mountain on or adjacent to the Tropic of Cancer.

Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth’s movements on its climate over thousands of years.

Mahi River is the only river in India which crosses the Tropic of Cancer twice.

Null Island is located in the Gulf of Guinea.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Question

Equinox is a moment in time when the Sun crosses the Earth’s equator, which is to say, appears directly above the equator.
The Tropic of Cancer is the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead. Yu Shan is the highest mountain on or adjacent to the Tropic of Cancer.
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth’s movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after a Serbian geophysicist and astronomer.
Mahi River is the only river in India which crosses the Tropic of Cancer twice. Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are the two States where the river crosses the line
Null Island is the point on the Earth’s surface at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. It is located in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Equinox is a moment in time when the Sun crosses the Earth’s equator, which is to say, appears directly above the equator.
The Tropic of Cancer is the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead. Yu Shan is the highest mountain on or adjacent to the Tropic of Cancer.
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth’s movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after a Serbian geophysicist and astronomer.
Mahi River is the only river in India which crosses the Tropic of Cancer twice. Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are the two States where the river crosses the line
Null Island is the point on the Earth’s surface at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. It is located in the Gulf of Guinea.

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