krus_aragon
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No, not islands.
Gloster
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Beaches that are top-rated for something?
DaleCooper
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Watercress farms?
Strat-tastic
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People who can swim 
Gloster
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Sea areas?
I thought this might be it at first but Britain only has 24 (counting closed sites, experimental reactors and under constructions ones)
Peterthegreat
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Offshore windfarms?
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I AM DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT SOMEBODY HAS FINALLY GOT THE CORRECT ANSWER!!
The original question was:- Brazil has only got 2 but Germany has got 6. The UK has got 42 but France has the most with 53. The most what?
Then followed a series of five more clues:-
1) Viewed from a slightly different perspective, Brazil has 2, Germany has 5, the UK has 30 but France still has the most with 39.
2) Finland has 3 and the Netherlands has 9. In Africa, Egypt has the most with 9.
3) Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Colombia have 10 each. Denmark, Sweden and Turkey all have nine.
4) Please get out your maps and charts - water is involved!!
5) What do all the countries I've mentioned have in common?
Answers submitted included:- National Parks, seaports, counties, cathedrals, cheeses, 3-starred Michelin restaurants, World Heritage sites, Oscar winners, extinct volcanoes, canals, Exclusive Economic Zones, watermills, rivers, hydroelectric dams, islands, top-rated beaches, watercress farms, Olympic swimming gold medallists, sea areas, shipping forecast areas, nuclear reactors and off-shore wind farms.
The correct answer can be found here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_maritime_boundaries
Congratulations to @TheEdge for (finally) getting the correct answer. Please take us boldly on to the next frontier!!
The original question was:- Brazil has only got 2 but Germany has got 6. The UK has got 42 but France has the most with 53. The most what?
Then followed a series of five more clues:-
1) Viewed from a slightly different perspective, Brazil has 2, Germany has 5, the UK has 30 but France still has the most with 39.
2) Finland has 3 and the Netherlands has 9. In Africa, Egypt has the most with 9.
3) Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Colombia have 10 each. Denmark, Sweden and Turkey all have nine.
4) Please get out your maps and charts - water is involved!!
5) What do all the countries I've mentioned have in common?
Answers submitted included:- National Parks, seaports, counties, cathedrals, cheeses, 3-starred Michelin restaurants, World Heritage sites, Oscar winners, extinct volcanoes, canals, Exclusive Economic Zones, watermills, rivers, hydroelectric dams, islands, top-rated beaches, watercress farms, Olympic swimming gold medallists, sea areas, shipping forecast areas, nuclear reactors and off-shore wind farms.
The correct answer can be found here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_maritime_boundaries
Congratulations to @TheEdge for (finally) getting the correct answer. Please take us boldly on to the next frontier!!
perryman
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Annoyingly (for me, that is), I'm sure I saw a map earlier this week on either the Reddit Map Porn site (most likely) or somewhere in David Rumsey's online collection whilst scanning through...
It was the huge numbers the UK and France have, it had to be something oceanic relating to all those ex-empire islands we each have. Lets stay geographic.
Why would you struggle to take a boat out and go fishing on Lake Vostok?
Why would you struggle to take a boat out and go fishing on Lake Vostok?
Mcr Warrior
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Would indeed be tricky to go fishing with 4km of ice/snow between you and the lake, all other things considered!
krus_aragon
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Cyndeyrn? (I my neck of the woods, at least.)
….is the correct answer. All yours
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I'll jump in with another geography question- Where in the world can you find a totally unique “Magic Roundabout”?
DaleCooper
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Swindon
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No, not Swindon. The "Magic Roundabout" there is not particularly unique.
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No, not Swindon.
Mcr Warrior
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There's an unusual roundabout in Hemel Hempstead that is sometimes referred to by that name.
Is that the right answer?
Is that the right answer?