Seven Natural Wonders of the World

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Mount Everest is a rock and snow peak of the Himalayas. It is in Nepal and stands on the border of Tibet. The peak was named after Sir George Everest. Its Tibetan name is Chomolungma. It is the highest mountain in the world. Its height is 29,028 ft (8,848 m).

Spanning more than 2000 km along the northeastern coast of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is home to thousands of species of plants and animals. The Reef which runs parallel to the Queensland coast has been designated by the Australian Government as a Marine Park.

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is the largest gorge in the world-a 290-mile-long gash across the face of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona. Rim to rim, it measures up to 18 miles across, with an average width of 10 miles; its average depth is one mile.
The Victoria Falls offer an inescapable closeness to the natural elements. The towering column of spray when the river is high, the thunder of the falling water, the terrifying abyss that separates Zimbabwe from Zambia
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese explorers sailed down Brazil's coast. The great bay that looked like a river was only one of many illusions that the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro held. Guarding the entrance to the bay, the naked and lopsided mountain the Portuguese called Pao de Acucar evoked the sugarloaves fashioned on the island of Madeira. They called the highest mountain Corcovado - "the hunchback" - for its humped profile.

On the afternoon of 20 Feb 1943, the ground swelled and raised itself to 2 or 2.5 meters high. In that year, the cone topped 1,100 feet, four-fifths of its final height. Over the next years, lava flows continued with little interruption. But in February of 1952, almost exactly nine years after Paricutín Volcano was born, the volcano experienced its last major spasm of activity.
The Northern Lights - ever changing dance of lights belies the aurora's permanence. Though only parts of it can be seen at any time, and almost never during the day, the aurora borealis forms a 2,000-mile-wide auroral oval above the magnetic north pole day in and day out, year after year.

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