natural wonders
Victoria Falls (or Mosi-oa-Tunya ( Tokaleya Tonga : the Smoke that Thunders ) is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe .
Victoria Falls
Parícutin
Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin , also accented Paricutín ) is a cinder cone volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán , close to a lava -covered village of the same name.
Images of the aurora australis and aurora borealis from around the world, including those with rarer blue and red lights An aurora (plural: aurorae or auroras; from the Latin word aurora , "sunrise") is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude ( Arctic and Antarctic ) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere ( thermosphere ). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere.
Aurora (astronomy)
Mount Everest
Mount Everest ( Nepali : सगरमाथा , Sagarmāthā ; Tibetan : ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ , Wylie : jo mo glang ma ; Chomolungma [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] or Qomolangma / ˈ tʃ oʊ m oʊ ˌ l ɑː ŋ m ə / [ 7 ] [ 8 ] " Holy Mother "; Chinese : 珠穆朗玛峰 ; pinyin : Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng ; [ 9 ] ) is the Earth 's highest mountain , with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level and the 5th tallest mountain measured from the centre of the Earth . [ 10 ] It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas . The international border between China and Nepal runs across the precise summit point.Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( pron.: / ˈ r iː oʊ d eɪ ʒ ə ˈ n ɛər oʊ / or / ˈ r iː oʊ d eɪ dʒ ə ˈ n ɛər oʊ / ; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁi.u dʒi ʒaˈnejɾu] , [ 1 ] January River ), commonly referred to simply as Rio , [ 2 ] is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro , the second largest city of Brazil , and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America , boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] making it the 6th largest in the Americas, and 26th in the world. [ 5 ] Rio de Janeiro has become a home of a World Heritage Site named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea" , as granted by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 in the category Cultural Landscape. [ 6 ] The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1815 during the Portuguese colonial era , 1815 to 1821 as the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves , and 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation.
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system [ 1 ] [ 2 ] composed of over 2,900 individual reefs [ 3 ] and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The reef is located in the Coral Sea , off the coast of Queensland , Australia .