Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, also known as Réserve naturelle intégrale du Mont Nimba in French, is a protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is located in both Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire. The total area covered is 175.4 square kilometers (43,300 acres).
Mount Kenya National Park is a protected area in Kenya. It was created in 1949 near Mount Kenya to help keep the environment and animals safe. The park also helps collect and carry water for the region’s water supply.
Huangshan (simplified Chinese: 黄山; traditional Chinese: 黃山) means “Yellow Mountain.” It is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The area was originally called “Yishan” and was later renamed because of a story about the Yellow Emperor performing alchemy there. The area has the most plant life below 1,100 meters (3,600 feet), and trees can grow up to the treeline at 1,800 meters (5,900 feet).
Mount Hamiguitan is a mountain in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. It stands 1,620 meters (5,315 feet) tall. The mountain and its surrounding area are home to one of the most diverse groups of wildlife in the country.
Mount Athos is a mountain located on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece, near the Aegean Sea. It is an important place for Eastern Orthodox monastic traditions. The mountain and most of the peninsula are ruled as a self-governing area by the monastic community of Mount Athos.
Victoria Falls, also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya in the Lozi language (“Thundering Smoke/Smoke that Rises”) and Shungu Namutitima in the Tonga language (“Boiling Water”), is a waterfall on the Zambezi River. It lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is one of the world’s largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 meters (5,604 feet).
The Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (French: baie du Mont-Saint-Michel, pronounced [bɛ dy mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Breton: Bae Menez-Mikael) is located between Brittany (to the southwest) and the Normandy peninsula of Cotentin (to the south and east). In 1979, the bay was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its beauty and its role in the Christian tradition. The area has large tides, more than 10 meters high, which expose much of the bay when the water level is low.
The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de Biosfera de la Mariposa Monarca) is a World Heritage Site that contains most of the wintering places for the eastern population of the monarch butterfly. The reserve is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests ecoregion, on the border of Michoacán and the State of Mexico, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Mexico City. Millions of butterflies arrive in the reserve each year.
Reichenau Island (German: [ˈʁaɪçənaʊ]) is an island located in Lake Constance in southern Germany. It is positioned almost directly west of the city of Konstanz, between two parts of Lake Constance called Gnadensee and Untersee. The island has a total land area of 4.3 square kilometers (1.7 square miles) and a distance around its edge of 11 kilometers (6.8 miles).
Sanahin Monastery (Armenian: Սանահին վանք, romanized: Sanahin vank’) is an Armenian monastery established in the 10th century in Sanahin, a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. The name Sanahin means “this one is older than that one” in Armenian, suggesting it may have been built before the nearby Haghpat Monastery, which is located about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) to the east. Together, Sanahin and Haghpat form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.