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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Top 10 Most Beautiful Mountains In The World
Here's a list of most beautiful mountainsin the world. Mountains is a dangerous yetbeautiful place that many people are interested to. Lot of mountain climbers try to go to the peak of those beautifulmountains. Some are successful but some of them are failed even some of them go home just as name. Let's take a look at those top 10 most beautifulmountains in the world
10. Mount Meru, Arusha National Park,Tanzania
This mountain is like a cone in shape that adding beauty during the climbing. Mount Meru is located 65 km away from Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa.
Mount Meru, Arusha National Park, Tanzania
9. Mount Shivling, Himalaya Mountains Range
Shivling mountain located in north India the top of the Himalayas. The height of Shivling mountain is 6549 m above sea level, therefore the mountain is also often called the high peak. This mountain has steep sides. This mountain's name comes on the Hindu's God Shiva. On 1974 this mountain was conquered by Laxman Singh and his team.
Mount Shvling Himalaya Mountains Range India
8. Mount Einger, Alpine Mountains
Mount Einger is one of the attractive mountain of the alpine mountains. many people died in this mountain climbing efforts. In 1938 Anderl Heckmar conquered the mountain from the north side that very dangerous.
Mount Einger Alpine Mountains
7. Ama Dablam, Himalaya Mountains Range
Ama Dablam is located in Himalaya mountains, in Khumbu region exactly, with height of 6856 above sea level. This mountain is counquered first time in 1961 by Gil Bishop and Ward.
Mount Ama Dablam, Himalaya Mountains Range
6. Machapuchare, Himalaya Mountains Range
Machapuchare means black fish with the height of 7000 meters in the Himalaya mountains range. This mountain is part of Annaapura Massiv.
Mount Machapuchare, Himalaya Mountains Range
Großglockner mountain, Austria
4. Drei Giffel Mountain, Alpine Mountains
Drei Giffel Mountains located in alpine mountains. Although this small mountain is not suitable to be called as a mountain. The peaks of the mountains rise nearly 3,000 meters into the sky near Paterno. Watching them from the north is one of the most popular panoramas of the Alpine mountains. The last time people that able to climb those three peaks are Thomas Huber from Huberbuam. He's overcoming all three pieces of the mountain, and he dares to jump from one peak to other peak.
Drei Giffel Mountain Alpine Mountains
3. K2, Himalaya Mountains
The K2 is the second highest mountain peak in the world. The height is 8611 meters from sea level. The sides of the mountain is very dangerous to be climbed and there's lot of victim because of that. This mountain is considered one of the most difficult mountain to be climbed in the world. There are several expedition formed in order to conquer this mountain.
Mount K2, Himalaya Mountains Range
2. Mount Alpamayo, Peru
With a height of about 5947 meters. Alpamayo mountain is not one of the highest mountain in South America. But it is one of the most famous. The reason: On all sides Alpamayo is fun! The interesting thing is Trapezoidal shaped in south-west part and also beautiful scenery on north side. Alpamayo is safer to be climbed than other mountain in this list. Climber just need to climb the ice safely. For those who have ever had a chance to see or climb this mountain They will never forget such a beautiful memories of this mountain.
Mount Alpamayo, Peru
1. Mount Matterhorn, Alpine Mountains
Matterhorn with a height of 4478 meters above sea level is the number 1 tourist destination in the Pennine Alps. Its pictures adorn T-shirts, jackets, and thousands of souvenirs. The first time the mountain was conquered by climbers is in July 14th 1865. Since then crowds in the mountain does not have an end. Every year millions of skiers and tourists come to this mountain. This mountain is one of the largest and highest place for skiing and hiking in Europe.
Mount Matterhorn, Alpine Mountains
Top 8 Most Unique Islands In The World
Here's the list of most unique islands in the world from various categories. These unique island become "unique" because they have some different feature than other islands in the world. Note that some of island is not an island in the ocean, but can be island in the lake or even island in the river. Here's the list of most uniqueislands in the world
8. Ometepe: World's Oldest island formed from the Volcano
Ometepe is one of the oldest island in the world. Formed from two volcanoes sticking out of the lake of Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua. Its name comes from the Nahuatl word ome (two) and tepetl (mountain), meaning two mountains. Two volcanoes are Concepción and Maderas. Although this is a dangerous volcanic island, but there are residents living there, about 35,000 people. The majority of the population are doing agricultural and breeding. This area is one of the tourist destinations place as well in Nicaragua.
Ometepe
7. Ellesmere: Inhabited Frozen Island
Ellesmere is one of the Island in the world that reaching freezing temperature. The island that located in Canadian territory, exactly in the west Greenland, has a barren and mountainous nature and become a 'laboratory' of the geologists and biologists that are studying the changes of nature. It's reported that this island is inhabited by 146 people nowadays.
Ellesmere Island
6. Azores: Remote volcanic Island with Various Seasons in a Day
The island that located in the Atlantic ocean is really unique. When you come here and want to cook, no need to think about making a stove, just dig the soil and enter the pot then your food would be cooked. Azores is a volcanic archipelago located off the coast of Portugal.
Another uniqueness is that the weather in the island that can change quickly. The normal temperature in the winter is about 13 degrees Celsius and 22 degrees Celsius when summer. But here the weather can change quickly. Temperature can drop and rise so quick. No wonder people say, in this island you can witness various seasons in one day. Bizarre, Isn't it?
Azores
5. Java: Island of People
Java is one of the most densely populated islands in the world. Total population reached 125 million people. Java is part of Indonesia, and also the island where Indonesian usually live. On the island there are two mega-city that is Jakarta and Surabaya. On the other hand, the island of Java have spectacular scenery. The island is vulnerable from volcano eruption and also earthquake as It's in the range of active volcanoes and in the range of earth fracture as well. Java is also the location of Borobudur as one of the seven wonder of the world.
Borobudur in Java Island
4. Peacock, Holy Island in Middle of the River
Peacock Island is a tiny island that called the holy island because of the Umananda sacred temple complex that located there. This tiny island is in the middle of a Brahmaputra river in Assam Province, India. Umananda Temple was built in 1594 by the King of Ahom Assam.
Among the temples in Assam, this temple, that dedicated for the worship for Lord Shiva, is one of the temple with the most visitors. To reach the temple, people must cross the river by boat from Kachari ghat. There is ferry service available from 7am in the morning until 5 pm in the evening.
Peacock Island
3. Spratly Islands: World's Most Disputed Islands
Spratly Islands is a group of 650 coral islands located in the South China Sea, between the Philippinesand Vietnam. The Spratlys, as they are called, are part of the three islands in the South China Sea, consists of more than 30,000 islands and coral reefs, Because of that It complicates the geography, government and economy in the Southeast Asian region. It's unclear what the potential of this island, but it's heard that preliminary survey has been conducted and the results is these islands contain many indicated oil and gas.
The uniqueness of this island is that 45 islands are occupied by a small number of military forces from various countries: China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brunei. Made it the most disputed islands in the world.
Spratly Islands
2. Samosir: Largest Island Within Island
Samosir Island is located in the middle of Lake Toba, a large lake in the big island of Sumatra, part of Indonesia. The island covers a large number of surface area on the lake. This island also have a unique culture and scenery that makes this island so unique. There are also two small lakes on the island itself. Samosir Island is believed to be the largest island within an island. The extent of 630 km square, only slightly smaller than the original area of Singapore that is 714 km square.
Samosir Island was created around 30,000 years ago during a massive volcanic eruption. Toba lake itself was created 75,000 years ago also caused by volcanic eruptions. In addition to Samosir Island, volcanic eruptions also cause the appearance of the peninsula on mainland Sumatra island that today become a small town Prapat.
Samosir Island in Toba Lake
1. Gunkanjima: Ghost Town in the Middle of the Sea
In the early 1900s, Gunkanjima is a prosperous island for its coal. Mitsubishi Corporation, which manages the coal mining here, really makes Gunkanjima become the rich city and densely populated, although the vast of the island is less than 1 km square.
To accommodate the miners, ten apartment complex built there. A tall labyrinth connected with the terrace, corridors and stairs. There are schools, restaurants, and gaming houses, all surrounded by a protective wall. The island is known as "Nashi Midori Shima," the island without a green color. In the Year 50′s the population reached 6000 people, this is the most densely populated islands in the world at that time.
But the coal mines that continuously dredged up to the seabed in the long time is exhausted and the island was closed. The island that did not have any green plants die over time. Fifty years later, the islandis like a ghost island with crumbling apartments. Year 1974-2009, the island is sealed off from visitors. But recently emerged new regulations, this unique island opened to tourists. The island is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Gunkanjima
8 Most Dangerous Places To Live On The Earth
Here's the most dangerous places to livein the world. People sometime living in the places that have high risk to their life. So here's some of the places that categorizes with dangerous for human to live.
8. China's Creeping Sandbox: Minquin County, China
Minquin County China
Trapped between two creeping deserts, the once fertile oasis of Minqin County, in northwest Gansu province, lives on borrowed time. The double whammy of a decade-long drought and the upriver diversion of water from its lifeline, the Shiyang River, have left Minqin to wither into the Tengger desert, which approaches from the southeast, and the Badain Jaran, closing in from the northwest. In total, since 1950, the deserts have swallowed up more than 100 square miles. During that same period, the populationthere has risen from 860,000 to more than 2 million.
As of 2004, the deserts were approaching at a rate of 10 meters per year. With more than 130 days of wind and dust each year, that rate is unlikely to slow. Faced with rapid desertification, the Chinese government has begun relocating displaced farmers, as arable land has decreased from 360 square miles to fewer than 60.
7. The I-44 Tornado Corridor: Oklahoma City/Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Tulsa USA
More than 1 million people reside along the Interstate 44 corridor that runs between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, the Sooner State's two most populous metropolitan areas. Each spring, as the cool, dry air from the Rocky Mountains glides across the lower plains, and the warm, wet air of the Gulf Coast comes north to meet it, the residents of this precarious stretch, locally called Tornado Alley, settle in for twister season.
Since 1890, more than 120 tornados have struck Oklahoma City and the surrounding area, which currently has a population of approximately 700,000. On May 3, 1999, an outbreak of 70 tornados stretched across Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Several of the most destructive storms swept through Oklahoma City, destroying 1700 homes and damaging another 6500. Even with modern prediction capabilities and early-warning systems, 40 people died when an F-5 twister tore through Oklahoma City. In addition to the loss of life, this display of natural devastation caused more than $1 billion in damage. Since 1950, the longest the area has gone without a tornado is five years—from 1992 to 1998. (As if making up for lost time, in the 11 months that followed that record lull, 11 tornados hit.) For only three other periods during the last half-century has Oklahoma City gone more than two years without a tornado.
6. Hurricane Capital of the World: Grand Cayman
Cayman island
The Cayman Islands, a British territory situated 150 miles south of Cuba, are best known as a tropical playground for the champagne and caviar set, who come to the islands for pristine Caribbean beaches, world-class diving, and lax banking regulations. Less alluring is the islands' other reputation as "hurricane capital of the world." According to the tropical-storm-tracking website hurricanecity.com, Grand Cayman, the largest of the three Cayman isles, is hit or brushed by at least one hurricane every 2.16 years, more than any other locale in the Atlantic basin. Since 1871, 64 storms have battered the low-lying limestone formation, often with catastrophic results.
In 2004, Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 storm with wind speeds approaching 150 miles per hour, dumped a foot of rain on Grand Cayman. A 10-foot storm surge followed, submerging a quarter of the island. An estimated 70 percent of the island's buildings were destroyed, and its 40,000 inhabitants were left without power or clean water for days.
5. The Ephemeral Isles: The Maldives
Maldives
The Maldives are such a dangerous place that Muhammed Nasheed, upon taking office in 2008, made it one his first items of business as the Maldives' first democratically elected president to announce a plan to create a fund for financing the relocation of the entire population.
The Maldives is a confederation of 1190 islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean. Its highest point of elevation is little more than 6 feet, and, sometime in the not-too-distant future, it is likely to be swallowed whole by rising sea levels. A 2005 assessment by the United States Geological Survey, conducted after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, called the Maldives one of the Earth's youngest land masses, adding that they're not long for life above water. According to the report, the islands "should be considered ephemeral features over geologic time."
By President Nasheed's reckoning, the people of the Maldives would be well-served to find someplace else—India or Sri Lanka were floated as potential refuges—lest they too become ephemeral. Recent events support his decision to invest money earned through tourism in a relocation fund: The 2004 tsunami, which occurred at low tide, swept over the island, leaving 10 percent of the country uninhabitable. Of the Maldives' 300,000 citizens, one-third were left homeless, and more than 80 people died. In 1987, during so-called "king tides," the capital of Malé, an island city covering 1 square mile, was completely inundated. The effects of these disasters were compounded by the mining of the coral reefs that surround the islands, which has made them highly susceptible to sea erosion.
4. The African Lake of Death: Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo/Rwanda
Kivu lake Congo Rwanda
Lake Kivu, located along the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, is one of Africa's Great Lakes. Deep below the surface of this lake's 2700 square miles, there are 2.3 trillion cubic feet of methane gas, along with 60 cubic miles of carbon dioxide trapped beneath the lake under the pressure of the water and earth. If released from the depths, these gases could spread a cloud of death over the 2 million Africans who make their home in the Lake Kivu basin.
The precedent for this concern stems from a pair of events that occurred in the 1980s at two other African lakes with similar chemical compositions. In 1984, 37 people died around Cameroon's Lake Monoun in a limnic eruption. Three years later, at Lake Nyos, also in Cameroon, 80 cubic meters of CO2 were released from the water. Subsequently, 1700 people died from exposure to the toxic gas. These incidents were apparently caused by volcanic activity below the lakes, which triggered the release of the gas. Similar activity is believed to occur beneath Lake Kivu, causing many to worry that this area is next. A report from the United Nations' Environmental Program went so far as to call the three bodies "Africa's Killer Lakes," and said Lake Kivu was cause for "serious concern."
3. Haiti's Perfect Storms: Gonaïves, Haiti
Gonaives haiti
First came tropical storm Fay on August 16. A week later, Hurricane Gustav blew through. Following in quick succession were Hurricanes Hanna and Ike. In the span of just one month, the coastal city of Gonaïves, one of Haiti's five largest cities, found itself on the receiving end of four devastating tropical cyclones. When the last storm passed, Gonaïves had practically been washed out to sea. Much of the citywas buried under mud, or submerged in filthy water that stood 12 feet deep in some places. The death toll ran close to 500.
But the storms of August to September 2008 weren't the most deadly in Gonaïves' recent history. In 2004,the city of 104,000 took a severe beating from Hurricane Jeanne. Three thousand Haitians died when the Category 3 storm hit and leveled large swaths of the city.
What makes Gonaïves so susceptible to destruction by hurricane? Aside from its coastal location on the Gulf of Gonâve, smack-dab in the cyclone-inclined Caribbean, Gonaïves rests on a flood plain prone to washing out when inland rivers swell. Furthermore, Haitians rely on wood to make charcoal, their primary source of fuel, and this has led to massive deforestation of the hillsides surrounding the city. As a result, when the rains come, the hills around Gonaïves melt away and mudslides nearly bury the city.
2. The Mountain of Fire: Mount Merapi, Indonesia
Mount Merapi
Even during its most tranquil periods, Mount Merapi, on the island of Java, smolders. Smoke ominously floats from its mouth, 10,000 feet in the sky. "Fire Mountain," as its name translates to English, has erupted about 60 times in the past five centuries, most recently in 2006. Before that, a 1994 eruption sent forth a lethal cloud of scalding hot gas, which burned 60 people to death. In 1930, more than 1000 people died when Merapi spewed lava over 8 square miles around its base, the high death toll being the result of too many people living too close.
In spite of this volatile history, approximately 200,000 villagers reside within 4 miles of the volcano. But Merapi is just one example of Javans tempting fate in the proximity of active volcanoes—it's estimated that 120 million of the island's residents live at the foot of 22 active volcanoes.
1. The Cold Pole: Verkhoyansk, Russia
Verkhoyansk, Russia
On the frigid taiga, 3000 miles east of Moscow, deep in the heart of Siberia, sits Verkhoyansk, the oldest city above the Arctic Circle. For more than three centuries, Russians have continuously resided here, braving endless winters on the banks of the Yana River, which is frozen solid for nine months of the year. Today, approximately 1500 people live here.
Verkhoyansk lays claim to the title of coldest city in the world, the so-called Cold Pole. It's hard to dispute the designation, when you consider that from September to March the city averages fewer than 5 hours of sunlight each day. (In December and January, there is nearly no sunlight.) Winter temperatures there typically fall between minus 60 and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The low, recorded in the late 19th century, was minus 90.
Nowadays, the city is attempting to attract "extreme tourists," who are drawn by the intense cold. For much of its history, however, Verkhoyansk was a preferred exile destination, used first by the czars, then later by the Soviets. In the 20th century, Verkoyansk's population peaked at 2500 residents.
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