Kawah Ijen
Turquoise-colored, extremely acid lake with a diameter of 1 km. Acidity – 0.5 pH. Nearly pure deposits of sulfur are located in the caldera. The burning sulfuric gas creates a very impressive blue flame in the night.
Outstanding volcanoes of the world
Wondermondo 🢖 Categories of wonders 🢖 Geological wonders 🢖 Volcanoes Category Volcanoes Described volcanoes What is included in this category? This category includes most unusual and interesting volcanoes of the world. What are volcanoes? Over the last 10,000 years in some 1,500 places around the Earth through the crust of the planet has been emitted lava, ash, and gases from the […]
Virginia Falls (Na’ili Cho)
Last primeval large waterfall in North America. Here the powerful South Nahanni falls 90 meters, the width of falls reaches 259 m. Some 120 m tall spire of rock – Mason’s Rock – stands in the middle of the falls.
Raven’s Tower (Sitka spruce)
Raven’s Tower is a very tall Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 96.7 m tall.
Doerner Fir
The tallest coast Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) in the world. Height 99.8 m, diameter 3.54 m, volume 237 m3. Some time ago it was 100.3 m tall.
90 m tall yellow meranti tree, Maliau Basin
Tallest known tree of this species (Shorea faguetiana Heim.), 89.5 m tall.
The 94.1 m tall Shorea faguetiana in Danum Valley
One of the tallest known trees in tropics, (Shorea spp.), 94.1 m tall.
Tallest Giant Sequoia in Redwood Mountain Grove
A very tall giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), 94.9 m tall.
Tallest Giant Sequoia in Converse Basin
Tallest giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.)), 95.8 m high.
Dragon Hole
World’s deepest known undersea sinkhole, 300.89 m deep.