Ayers Rock, Australia's Most Recognisable Natural Icon

Ayers Rock, also called Uluru by the Aborigines of Australia, is located in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It is a large sandstone rock formation that protrude in the earth's surface.

Ayers Rock is one of Australia's most recognisable natural icons. It stands 348 meter but most of its bulk is below the ground, and measures 9.4 km in circumference.

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The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Most Beautiful Natural Harbor

The natural harbor of Rio de Janeiro is located in the south-western shore of the Guanabara Bay in Brazil. It has been named as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The dark blue waters of the harbor are studded with rocky mountains, the best known of which is the Sugar Loaf Mountain.

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Lagoons of New Caledonia, World's Third Largest Coral Reef Structure

Located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, the Lagoons of New Caledonia is composed of six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of New Caledonia. It's the third largest coral reef structure in the world.

One of the islands of New Caledonia (Source: nationalgeographic.com)

The lagoons features an exceptional diversity of coral and fish species and a continuum of habitats from mangroves to sea grasses. It display intact ecosystems, with healthy populations of large predators, and a great number and diversity of big fish. The reef systems provide habitat to a number of threatened fish, turtles, and marine mammals, including the third largest population of dugongs in the world. These Lagoons are of exceptional natural beauty, and contain reefs of varying age from living reefs to ancient fossil reefs, providing an important source of information on the natural history of Oceania.

The Grand Canyon, Massive Steep-sided Gorges

The Grand Canyon is a massive steep-sided gorge located in the state of Arizona, USA. It is carved by the Colorado River over a period of six million years. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles and attains a depth of more than a mile.

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Mayon Volcano, Perfect Cone-shaped Volcano

Mayon Volcano is the most active volcano in the Philippines. It is located in Legazpi City in the province of Albay. This 2,463 metres volcano is very popular because of it's near perfect cone shape. It was a candidate of the New Seven Wonders of the World and is consider as the world's most perfectly formed volcano.

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Barringer Meteor Crater, Squarish-shaped Meteor Impact Crater

Barringer Meteor Crater is a 4,145 feet across, and 570 feet deep meteor crater. This squarish shape impact crater is is located in Arizona, USA. In 1871, it was though as a clasped top of volcano but in 1902 Dr. Daniel Barringer proved that the rocks around the hole were not volcanic and showed a couple of signs that mean it was crushed by an enormous body going at the speed of 43,125 mph. The explosion of the impact produced a massive explosion equivalent to at least 2.5 megatons of TNT or about 150 times the yield of the atomic bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The 300,000 tonne nickel-iron meteorite, about 50 meters accross, was smashed into pieces instantly and was scattered around the crater plain over an area 8 to 10 miles in diameter.

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Looking into the crater from the north rim. The rust colored area on the far (south) rim is where the last mining for the meteorite occurred in 1929 and is believed to be the site of the bulk of the meteorite.

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The meteor crater is large enough to be seen from outer space.

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Socotra Archipelago

Socotra Archipelago is a small archipelago of four islands and two rocky islets in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa. It is one of the most isolated landforms on Earth of continental origin earning it the "jewel" of biodiversity in the Arabian sea.

Socotra Archipelago is so isolated that 37 percent of Socotra's 825 plant species, 90 percent of its reptile species, and 95 percent of its land snail species do not occur anywhere else in the world. The flora of Socotra is rank as among the ten most endangered island flora in the world. The image below is the dragon's blood tree, an tree that is only found in the Socotra Archipelago.

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The Great Barrier Reef, World's Largest Coral Reef System

It is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is considered the world's largest coral reef system and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms, the coral polyps.

Satellite image of the Great Barrier Reef from Google Map

The Great Barrier Reef is so large that it can be seen from outer space. It is made up of around 3,000 individual reefs and over 900 islands and it stretches for more than 1,600 miles.

Satellite image of the Great Barrier Reef (Source: wikipedia.org)

Located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is composed of more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 1,600 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 sq miles. The Great Barrier Reef supports a wide diversity of marine life.

Some marine life of the Great Barrier Reef (Source: wikipedia.org)

One of the islands of the Great Barrier Reef (Source: thetoptensite.com)

Northern and Southern Polar Lights

Northern and Southern Polar Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis respectively, are natural colored lights in the sky during the night in the North and South Polar zones. They are produced by the collision of charged particles from Earth's magnetosphere.

The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and from March to April. The locals call this phenomenon the Dance of the Spirits.

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Victoria Falls, World's Largest Waterfall

Victoria falls is considered the largest waterfall in the world. It is located in the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa. It is also called Mosi-oa-Tunya, which means "The Smoke that Thunders". It measures 1 mile in width and 360 feet in height, forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world. The vicinity of the waterfall has the most diverse wildlife in any major waterfalls.

View of Victoria falls from a plane (Source: wikipedia.org)

Rainbow created by mist from Victoria falls (Source: wikipedia.org)

Mount Everest, World's Highest Mountain

At 29,029 feet above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It is located in the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, Tibet and China and is part of the Himalayan Mountain range. Mount Everest is growing two inches taller each year because the two plates of the earth's crust were the mountain range sits are still moving.

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Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest (1790-1866), a British surveyor. It was first climbed to the top by New Zealander named Edmund Hillary and a Napalese named Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Since then, it has been climbed by 400 people from around the world.

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Tubbataha Reef

Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef located in the Sulu Sea of the Philippines. It is a protected marine sanctuary as Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park and is nominated at the New 7 Wonders of Nature.

The word tubbataha is a combination of two Samal words which means "a long reef exposed at low tide".

Seaweeds at the Tubbataha Reef (Source: 23firststreet.wordpress.com)

The reef is made up of two coral atolls divided by an eight-kilometer wide channel. The South Atoll, the smaller of the two is five kilometers in length and three kilometers in width; while the North Atoll, the larger of the two is 16 kilometers long and five kilometers wide. Each reef has a single small islet that protrudes from the water. The atolls are separated by a deep channel 8 km wide.

Fishes and corals at Tubbataha Reef (Source: psychosanctum.blogspot.com)

Chocolate Hills

The Chocolate Hills is composed of more than 1,200 perfectly cone-shaped hills of about the same size and spread in an area of more than 50 square kilometres. This famous tourist attraction and unusual geological formation located in Bohol, Philippines are covered in green grasses and turns brown during the summer, hence, it was called Chocolate hills because it's color is like chocolate during the summer.

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About World's Natural Wonders

My fascination with the beauty of nature starts when I was just a child when I found a book in our book case about the natural wonders of the world. The book is full of information and colorful pictures of many natural wonders of the world. I remember I would spend countless hours browsing and reading that book.

This blog aims to educate the viewer about the countless beauty of nature our world possesses, and hope that everybody will take action to preserve such beauty.

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