Worth knowing
Tanzania
The Laetoli footprints were found in 1978 by Mary Leakey's team. Three early humans had walked through wet volcanic ash, and later ashfalls buried and preserved about 70 of their steps.
Where its story happens
Laetoli, at 3.00°S, 35.35°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Tanzania
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Tanzania, in East Africa, on the Indian Ocean, south of Kenya. See Tanzania on a map.
- Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, and the Serengeti plains are both here.
- Freddie Mercury, the singer of Queen, was born on its island of Zanzibar.
- Its name was invented in 1964 by blending the names of the two countries that united to form it.
- A trail of footprints here, pressed into volcanic ash 3.6 million years ago, shows our ancestors walking upright.