Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009
Encyclopedia
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 is a hunting
video game published by Activision
for the PlayStation 3
, PlayStation 2
, Xbox 360
, and Wii
video game consoles. It was released in the United States on September 23, 2008.
where he is hunting for red deer
with his hunting mentor and friend, Sergei, but a grizzly bear
attacks them and maims Sergei. killing him. After fending the grizzly off, Flint makes a choice - he has decided to start hunting dangerous game to become the world's greatest hunter.
Flint travels to Tanzania
to hunt lions with his friend Henry Tally. Tally decides to make a bet, where Flint hunts a lion bigger than Tally's. Later, after baiting some lions with Impala
meat and fighting waves of spotted hyena
, members of a lion pride attacks Tally's camp at dusk, where some workers are constructing a bridge. Flint protects the camp, and in the process, completes his objective of taking down a lion larger than Henry's.
Next, Flint goes to Alaska
, and talks to a forest ranger about hunting a trophy brown bear
. After fighting gray wolves and surviving an attack by a moose
, he manages to find the bear with the help of another ranger, but when he tries to take it down, he causes an avalanche
. The ranger was right in the path of the avalanche and Flint, who manages to take down a cougar, finds the ranger buried in snow with the bear sniffing around the remains of a cabin. Flint kills the bear and rescues the ranger.
Flint proceeds to Ecuador
where he hunts a jaguar
. However the big cat is startled when a plane crashes through the jungle. After fighting black caiman
, Flint saves a woman in the crash site named Veronica Soto from an anaconda
, and she says her husband Rodrigo is out in the jungle somewhere. Flint goes to rescue Rodrigo, fights python
, and baits piranha
with capybara
. He finds Rodrigo about to be attacked by the jaguar but manages to save him from the big cat.
Then, Flint goes to India
where he has to control the numbers of striped hyena
s due to attacks on livestock and children. He finds rangers who are relocating tigers. He hitches a ride, but boulders fall onto one of the trucks, and four of the tigers escape. Flint then retrieves all four cats by using a tranquilizer gun.
Flint then goes to British Columbia
to hunt cougars. After fighting elk
and grizzly bears, he baits a cougar and hunts it. After that, he heads to the Congo
with Henry Tally and their friend Daniel Heath to hunt cape buffalo, but they have to navigate a river full of aggressive hippo
and Nile crocodiles. Flint manages to get a buffalo after fighting giant forest hog
s and snakes, but later finds Tally and Heath up trees with a buffalo herd underneath them. Flint fends off the buffalo and rescues the men.
He later travels to Thailand
where he is hired by a forest service to tranquilize Asiatic Black Bear
s, due to their unusual aggressiveness. While doing so, he is attacked by a leopard and sneaks around an Asian Elephant
herd.
Then Flint goes to Namibia
to hunt leopard
with famous hunting guide Dominic Rosseau. However Dominic gets attacked by a leopard but Flint goes to carry him to the truck, but an angry rhinoceros
flips the truck over, which is then dispatched by Flint. Flint tells the driver he will go get help, fending off elephants along the way and killing the leopard. Flint then reaches a nearby village and tells the people about Dominic, who then gets rescued.
Finally, Flint goes back to Russia for a wolf hunt with Sergei's son Yuri. However, some of the wolves escape into the forest, where Yuri's truck can't get through. Flint decides to go on his own, tells Yuri to stay and continues on. He then hunts wild boar to bait the wolves. After dispatching the last of the pack, the bear that killed Sergei returns and tries to kill Flint, but he manages to grab a piece of wood and impales the bear on it after a long fight. Yuri runs out to Flint, where he tells him, "This is him, Yuri. This is the animal that ended your father's life."
, Alaska
, India
, Congo
, and Namibia
.
Here are the bonus missions Flint can accomplish:
, Tanzania
, Alaska
, Ecuador
, India
, British Columbia
, Congo
, Thailand
, Namibia
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...
video game published by Activision
Activision
Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
for the PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
, PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
, Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
, and Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
video game consoles. It was released in the United States on September 23, 2008.
Story
The game's story focuses on Flint Abrahams, a big game hunter. Flint is in RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
where he is hunting for red deer
Red Deer
The red deer is one of the largest deer species. Depending on taxonomy, the red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, parts of western Asia, and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being...
with his hunting mentor and friend, Sergei, but a grizzly bear
Grizzly Bear
The grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
attacks them and maims Sergei. killing him. After fending the grizzly off, Flint makes a choice - he has decided to start hunting dangerous game to become the world's greatest hunter.
Flint travels to Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
to hunt lions with his friend Henry Tally. Tally decides to make a bet, where Flint hunts a lion bigger than Tally's. Later, after baiting some lions with Impala
Impala
An impala is a medium-sized African antelope. The name impala comes from the Zulu language meaning "gazelle"...
meat and fighting waves of spotted hyena
Spotted Hyena
The spotted hyena also known as laughing hyena, is a carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which it is the largest extant member. Though the species' prehistoric range included Eurasia extending from Atlantic Europe to China, it now only occurs in all of Africa south of the Sahara save...
, members of a lion pride attacks Tally's camp at dusk, where some workers are constructing a bridge. Flint protects the camp, and in the process, completes his objective of taking down a lion larger than Henry's.
Next, Flint goes to Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, and talks to a forest ranger about hunting a trophy brown bear
Brown Bear
The brown bear is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.There are several recognized...
. After fighting gray wolves and surviving an attack by a moose
Moose
The moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration...
, he manages to find the bear with the help of another ranger, but when he tries to take it down, he causes an avalanche
Avalanche
An avalanche is a sudden rapid flow of snow down a slope, occurring when either natural triggers or human activity causes a critical escalating transition from the slow equilibrium evolution of the snow pack. Typically occurring in mountainous terrain, an avalanche can mix air and water with the...
. The ranger was right in the path of the avalanche and Flint, who manages to take down a cougar, finds the ranger buried in snow with the bear sniffing around the remains of a cabin. Flint kills the bear and rescues the ranger.
Flint proceeds to Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
where he hunts a jaguar
Jaguar
The jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...
. However the big cat is startled when a plane crashes through the jungle. After fighting black caiman
Black Caiman
The black caiman is a crocodilian. It is a carnivorous reptile that lives along slow-moving rivers and lakes, in the seasonally flooded savannas of the Amazon basin, and in other freshwater habitats in South America. Once common, it was hunted to near extinction primarily for its commercially...
, Flint saves a woman in the crash site named Veronica Soto from an anaconda
Anaconda
An anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake found in tropical South America. Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.Anaconda...
, and she says her husband Rodrigo is out in the jungle somewhere. Flint goes to rescue Rodrigo, fights python
Python
The Pythonidae, commonly known simply as pythons, from the Greek word python-πυθων, are a family of non-venomous snakes found in Africa, Asia and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world...
, and baits piranha
Piranha
A piranha or piraña is a member of family Characidae in order Characiformes, an omnivorous freshwater fish that inhabits South American rivers. In Venezuela, they are called caribes...
with capybara
Capybara
The capybara , also known as capivara in Portuguese, and capibara, chigüire in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador ronsoco in Peru, chigüiro, and carpincho in Spanish, is the largest living rodent in the world. Its closest relatives are agouti, chinchillas, coyphillas, and guinea pigs...
. He finds Rodrigo about to be attacked by the jaguar but manages to save him from the big cat.
Then, Flint goes to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
where he has to control the numbers of striped hyena
Striped Hyena
The Striped Hyena is a species of true hyena native to North and East Africa, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Middle and Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent...
s due to attacks on livestock and children. He finds rangers who are relocating tigers. He hitches a ride, but boulders fall onto one of the trucks, and four of the tigers escape. Flint then retrieves all four cats by using a tranquilizer gun.
Flint then goes to British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
to hunt cougars. After fighting elk
Elk
The Elk is the large deer, also called Cervus canadensis or wapiti, of North America and eastern Asia.Elk may also refer to:Other antlered mammals:...
and grizzly bears, he baits a cougar and hunts it. After that, he heads to the Congo
Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin that is the drainage of the Congo River of west equatorial Africa. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system with input from the Chambeshi River, the Uele and Ubangi Rivers in the upper reaches and the Lualaba River draining wetlands...
with Henry Tally and their friend Daniel Heath to hunt cape buffalo, but they have to navigate a river full of aggressive hippo
Hippo
A hippo or hippopotamus is either of two species of large African mammal which live mainly in and near water:* Hippopotamus* Pygmy HippopotamusHippo may also refer to:-Given names:...
and Nile crocodiles. Flint manages to get a buffalo after fighting giant forest hog
Giant forest hog
The Giant Forest Hog is native to wooded habitats in Africa and generally is considered the largest wild member of the Suidae . Despite its large size and relatively wide distribution, it was only described by scientists in 1904...
s and snakes, but later finds Tally and Heath up trees with a buffalo herd underneath them. Flint fends off the buffalo and rescues the men.
He later travels to Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
where he is hired by a forest service to tranquilize Asiatic Black Bear
Asiatic Black Bear
The Asian black bear , also known as the moon bear or white-chested bear is a medium-sized species of bear, largely adapted for arboreal life, which occurs through much of southern Asia, Korea, northeastern China, the Russian far east and Honshū and Shikoku islands of Japan...
s, due to their unusual aggressiveness. While doing so, he is attacked by a leopard and sneaks around an Asian Elephant
Asian Elephant
The Asian or Asiatic elephant is the only living species of the genus Elephas and distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east. Three subspecies are recognized — Elephas maximus maximus from Sri Lanka, the Indian elephant or E. m. indicus from mainland Asia, and E. m....
herd.
Then Flint goes to Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
to hunt leopard
Leopard
The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its...
with famous hunting guide Dominic Rosseau. However Dominic gets attacked by a leopard but Flint goes to carry him to the truck, but an angry rhinoceros
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia....
flips the truck over, which is then dispatched by Flint. Flint tells the driver he will go get help, fending off elephants along the way and killing the leopard. Flint then reaches a nearby village and tells the people about Dominic, who then gets rescued.
Finally, Flint goes back to Russia for a wolf hunt with Sergei's son Yuri. However, some of the wolves escape into the forest, where Yuri's truck can't get through. Flint decides to go on his own, tells Yuri to stay and continues on. He then hunts wild boar to bait the wolves. After dispatching the last of the pack, the bear that killed Sergei returns and tries to kill Flint, but he manages to grab a piece of wood and impales the bear on it after a long fight. Yuri runs out to Flint, where he tells him, "This is him, Yuri. This is the animal that ended your father's life."
Bonus missions
Bonus missions are missions that can be completed with the knowledge you gained in career mode. If you complete a bonus mission, you gain 10 upgrade points. Bonus missions are in these countries: TanzaniaTanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Congo
Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin that is the drainage of the Congo River of west equatorial Africa. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system with input from the Chambeshi River, the Uele and Ubangi Rivers in the upper reaches and the Lualaba River draining wetlands...
, and Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
.
Here are the bonus missions Flint can accomplish:
- Hunt 1 mad elephant (Tanzania)
- Hunt 2 grizzly bearGrizzly BearThe grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
s (Alaska) - Clear the temple area of hyenaStriped HyenaThe Striped Hyena is a species of true hyena native to North and East Africa, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Middle and Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent...
s (India) - Hunt 1 giant forest hogGiant forest hogThe Giant Forest Hog is native to wooded habitats in Africa and generally is considered the largest wild member of the Suidae . Despite its large size and relatively wide distribution, it was only described by scientists in 1904...
(Congo) - Hunt 1 trophy lionLionThe lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...
(Namibia)
Animals
- red deerRed DeerThe red deer is one of the largest deer species. Depending on taxonomy, the red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, parts of western Asia, and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being...
(Russia) - grizzly bearGrizzly BearThe grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
(Alaska,British Columbia) - African lion(Tanzania,Namibia)
- spotted hyenaSpotted HyenaThe spotted hyena also known as laughing hyena, is a carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which it is the largest extant member. Though the species' prehistoric range included Eurasia extending from Atlantic Europe to China, it now only occurs in all of Africa south of the Sahara save...
(Tanzania,Namibia) - gray wolfGray WolfThe gray wolf , also known as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family...
(Alaska,Russia) - mountain lion(Alaska,British Columbia,Ecuador0
- mooseMooseThe moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration...
(Alaska) - jaguarJaguarThe jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...
(Equador) - bengal tigerBengal TigerThe Bengal tiger is a tiger subspecies native to the Indian subcontinent that in 2010 has been classified as endangered by IUCN...
(India) - gaurGaurThe gaur , also called Indian bison, is a large bovine native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1986 as the population decline in parts of the species' range is likely to be well over 70% over the last three generations...
(India) - Nile crocodileNile crocodileThe Nile crocodile or Common crocodile is an African crocodile which is common in Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gabon, South Africa, Malawi, Sudan, Botswana, and Cameroon...
(Congo) - white rhinocerosWhite RhinocerosThe White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species...
(Namibia,Tanzania) - impalaImpalaAn impala is a medium-sized African antelope. The name impala comes from the Zulu language meaning "gazelle"...
(Tanzania) - leopardLeopardThe leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its...
(Thailand,Namibia,Tanzania) - African elephant(Namibia,Tanzania)
- black caimanBlack CaimanThe black caiman is a crocodilian. It is a carnivorous reptile that lives along slow-moving rivers and lakes, in the seasonally flooded savannas of the Amazon basin, and in other freshwater habitats in South America. Once common, it was hunted to near extinction primarily for its commercially...
(Ecuador) - red bellied piranha(Ecuador)
- striped hyenaStriped HyenaThe Striped Hyena is a species of true hyena native to North and East Africa, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Middle and Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent...
(India) - brown bearBrown BearThe brown bear is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.There are several recognized...
(Russia,Alaska) - elkElkThe Elk is the large deer, also called Cervus canadensis or wapiti, of North America and eastern Asia.Elk may also refer to:Other antlered mammals:...
(British Columbia) - Eurasian wild boar(Russia)
- cape buffalo(Congo)
- hippopotamusHippopotamusThe hippopotamus , or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" , is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal and the heaviest...
(Congo) - giant forest hogGiant forest hogThe Giant Forest Hog is native to wooded habitats in Africa and generally is considered the largest wild member of the Suidae . Despite its large size and relatively wide distribution, it was only described by scientists in 1904...
(Congo) - Asiatic black bearAsiatic Black BearThe Asian black bear , also known as the moon bear or white-chested bear is a medium-sized species of bear, largely adapted for arboreal life, which occurs through much of southern Asia, Korea, northeastern China, the Russian far east and Honshū and Shikoku islands of Japan...
(Thailand) - Indian elephantIndian ElephantThe Indian Elephant is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to mainland Asia. Since 1986, Elephas maximus has been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be 60–75 years...
(Thailand) - python(Equador)
- snakeSnakeSnakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
(Tanzania,India,British Columbia,Congo,Thailand,Namibia) - beeBeeBees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila...
(Tanzania,Ecuador,Congo,Namibia) - capybaraCapybaraThe capybara , also known as capivara in Portuguese, and capibara, chigüire in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador ronsoco in Peru, chigüiro, and carpincho in Spanish, is the largest living rodent in the world. Its closest relatives are agouti, chinchillas, coyphillas, and guinea pigs...
(Ecuador) - anacondaAnacondaAn anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake found in tropical South America. Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.Anaconda...
(Ecuador)
Countries/states and provinces
RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Congo
Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin that is the drainage of the Congo River of west equatorial Africa. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system with input from the Chambeshi River, the Uele and Ubangi Rivers in the upper reaches and the Lualaba River draining wetlands...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...