Natural wonders of the world

• Mount Everest


  • Highest point on earth
  • Lies in the Great Himalayan range, in South Asia
  • Peak lies on the border between Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet
  • Rises to a height of more than 8848.86 m
  • Early attempts to reach the summit began in the 1920s
• Guanabara Bay


  • World's largest natural deep water bay
  • Also known as the harbour of Rio de Janeiro
  • Located in Brazil
  • Created by erosion from the Atlantic Ocean
  • Surrounded by spectacular granite mountains and 130 islands
• Victoria Falls


  • One of the world's mightiest waterfalls
  • Located in east-central Africa
  • Lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe
  • Combined width of 1,708 m and a drop of 108 m
  • Termed as the world's largest sheet of falling water
• Aurora


  • Natural display of lights in the sky
  • Seen in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
  • Caused when electrically charged particles from the sun enter the earth's atmosphere
  • In the south, it is known as the southern lights, or Aurora Australis
  • In the north it is known as the northern lights, or Aurora Borealis
• The Grand Canyon


  • 446 km gorge cut by the Colorado River in Arizona state of the United States
  • Nature's greatest example of sculpture
  • Noted for its beautiful colours and shapes
• Paricutín volcano


  • Eruption (1943-1953) located about 320 km west of Mexico City
  • Gave a chance to scientists to observe the life cycle of a volcano from its birth to its extinction
  • Eruptions began on 20 February 1943
  • Volcano's cone gaining a height of 450 m in the first year, burying the village of Paricutín
  • By 1952, when the eruptions ended, the peak had reached an elevation of 2,808 m
• The Great Barrier Reef, which lies in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, is a complex organisation of coral reefs, shoals, and islets. The reef that stretches over 2,000 km and covers 3,44,500 sq km is a long, narrow, mostly submerged coral formation lying parallel to the shoreline of a landmass.
• Volcanoes usually take many years, even centuries, to grow, but the Paricutín volcano eruption (1943-1953), located about 320 km west of Mexico City, gave a chance to scientists to observe the life cycle of a volcano from its birth to its extinction.
• Glacier in Patagonia


  • Perito Moreno Glacier
• The great hole is the largest underwater sinkhole.
• The bay of fundy near Canada is noted for its fast-running tides, the highest in the world.
• The largest salt flat on the earth is found in Bolivia, called Salar de Uyuni.
• The Zhangjiajie National Park in China is home to one of the most unique landscapes in the world, called the Wuling yuan Scenic Area.