List of articles in "Place" category - Page 4583

Sian Ka’an is a biosphere reserve in the municipality of Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

Gaping Gill (also known as Gaping Ghyll) is a natural cave in North Yorkshire England. It is one of the unmistakable landmarks on the southern slopes of Ingleborough – a […]

The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc 100 km (60 miles) north of Venice […]

Kingsbury Water Park is a country park in north Warwickshire England not far from Birmingham and lying on the River Tame. It is owned and managed by Warwickshire County Council. […]

The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1250-kilometre (780 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East with an area of about 270000 km2 (100000 sq mi). It […]

Fingal’s Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland part of a National Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust for […]

Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien (Chinese: 周口店; pinyin: Zhōukǒudiàn IPA: [tʂóʊkʰòʊtjɛ̂n]) is a cave system in Beijing China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries including one of the first specimens of Homo […]

Snæfellsjökull (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈstn̥aiːfɛlsˌjœːkʏtl̥] snow-fell glacier) is a 700000-year-old stratovolcano with a glacier covering its summit in western Iceland. The name of the mountain is actually Snæfell but it is […]

Petrarch is a crater on Mercury at latitude -30 longitude 26.5. It is ~170 km in diameter. This crater is located within the distorted terrain on the opposite side of […]

Fort Devens is a reservist United States military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. […]