• Question: If you could own any country in the world which, why and is there any scientific purpose

    Asked by mrhicks to Angus, Christian, Hannah, Laura, Simon on 21 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Angus Ferraro

      Angus Ferraro answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Hmm, my very own country…I think it would be have to be somewhere with lots of interesting things for me to study. This is difficult. Monserrat would be rather nice. It’s in the Caribbean, so obviously the weather would be nice. Mountainous islands like Monserat pack a lot of varieties of weather into a small space. It can be nice and sunny on the beach but pouring down with rain up on the mountain! Monserrat also has a big active volcano. In fact, half of the island is in an ‘exclusion zone’ becuase it’s too dangerous to be close to it!

    • Photo: Simon Holyoake

      Simon Holyoake answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      very unusual question!

      I’d never considered owning an entire country before!

      I think I would probably like to own borneo, so I could put a halt to the deforestation going on there and preserve the habitats of orangutans (my very favoruite ape!) there is a lot of amazing wildlife there, so I’d probably spend my time studying it all!

    • Photo: Laura Roberts Artal

      Laura Roberts Artal answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      I’ve never thought about owning a country before!

      I’m not sure which country I would choose. I’d like one that had nice weather and nice people. Lots of awesome natural spaces, with mountains, fields, seaside, throw in some volcanoes and I’ll buy it!

    • Photo: Christian Maerz

      Christian Maerz answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      I think I would like to own Chile – it has a very long Pacific coastline, and covers a lot of different climate and vegetation zones. It has the sea, mountains, forests, deserts, and some really really cool geology!

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