Salt Flat
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Potosí Department, Bolivia
Latitude
-20.333333
Longitude
-67.7
Feature
World's largest salt flat
Salar de Uyuni is a vast salt flat in southwestern Bolivia and the largest salt flat in the world.
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Hot Spring
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Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
Latitude
44.52505
Longitude
-110.8382
Type
Geothermal hot spring
Grand Prismatic Spring is a large geothermal hot spring in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park.
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Sinkhole
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Lighthouse Reef, Belize
Latitude
17.315986
Longitude
-87.534697
Type
Marine sinkhole
The Great Blue Hole is a large circular marine sinkhole within Lighthouse Reef off the coast of Belize.
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Waterfall
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Zambia–Zimbabwe border, southern Africa
Latitude
-17.92453
Longitude
25.85539
Countries
Zambia & Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls is a major waterfall on the Zambezi River forming part of the international border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Waterfall
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Canaima National Park, Bolívar, Venezuela
Latitude
5.970056
Longitude
-62.536222
Location
Canaima National Park
Angel Falls is a very high waterfall in Canaima National Park in Venezuela's Bolívar region.
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Geological Formation
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County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Latitude
55.240833
Longitude
-6.511667
Formation
About 40,000 basalt columns
Giant's Causeway is a distinctive basalt-column geological formation on the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland.
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Geological Formation
Adrar Plateau, Mauritania
Latitude
21.11716
Longitude
-11.40183
Diameter
About 40 km
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara, is a large circular geological formation on Mauritania's Adrar Plateau.
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Lake
Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia
Latitude
-34.0951
Longitude
123.202904
Type
Pink salt lake
Lake Hillier is a salt lake on Middle Island in Western Australia's Recherche Archipelago, known for its distinctive pink appearance.
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Mountain
Nepal–China border, Himalayas
Latitude
27.988056
Longitude
86.925
Summit Elevation
8,848.86 m
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, with its summit on the border between Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Geological Formation
Bohol, Philippines
Latitude
9.916667
Longitude
124.166667
Feature
Large field of conical hills
The Chocolate Hills are a large geological formation of distinctive conical hills across central Bohol in the Philippines.
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Geological Formation
Pamukkale, Denizli Province, Türkiye
Latitude
37.923611
Longitude
29.120833
Type
Travertine terraces
The Pamukkale Travertines are white mineral terraces formed by geothermal waters in Denizli Province, Türkiye.
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Oceanic Deep
Mariana Trench, western Pacific Ocean
Latitude
11.373333
Longitude
142.591667
Maximum Depth
About 10,935 m below sea level
Challenger Deep is the deepest known part of Earth's seabed, located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Lake
Jordan Rift Valley, Middle East
Latitude
31.520556
Longitude
35.484444
Surface Elevation
About 441 m below sea level
The Dead Sea is a hypersaline lake in the Jordan Rift Valley bordered by Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Island
Socotra Governorate, Yemen
Latitude
12.4581
Longitude
53.8502
Known For
Exceptional endemic biodiversity
Socotra Island is the main island of Yemen's Socotra Archipelago, known for its isolated geography and unusually high level of endemic biodiversity.
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Island
Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, Iceland
Latitude
63.30393
Longitude
-20.60422
Protection
Strictly protected scientific reserve
Surtsey is a young volcanic island in Iceland's Vestmannaeyjar archipelago that formed during volcanic eruptions in the 1960s.
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