Named seven natural wonders of the world (photo). Grand Canyon, North America. Paricutin Volcano, South America
PhotoThese are the most important natural places in the world, which were determined as a result of a worldwide popular vote. They were: the Amazon and the Amazonian jungle, Halong Bay, Iguazu, Jeju Island, Komodo, Puerto Princesa Underground River, national park Table Mountain…
The project started in December 2007. Until July 7, 2009, the nomination and preliminary selection of candidates took place. As a result, a list of 77 candidates was formed. On July 21, 2009, the expert council of the competition selected 28 finalists from among them, who were admitted to the general vote. Voting continued until November 11, 2011. During this time, more than 1 million votes were cast.
So, on November 11, 2011, on the day of "three eleven", the new seven wonders of nature were announced. They became:
1. Amazon River and Amazonian jungle (Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, Guiana, Ecuador)
2. Halong Bay (Vietnam)
3. Iguazu Falls (Argentina, Brazil)
Most of the waterfalls are located within the territory of Argentina (length 2100 m), but from Brazil (length 800 m) there is a good view of the "Devil's Throat". The waterfalls can be observed from a height of 160-260 meters, so this waterfall is higher than Niagara, but inferior in width to Victoria Falls.
4. Jeju Island (Republic of Korea)
5. Komodo National Park (Indonesia)
6. Puerto Princesa Underground River (Philippines)
Table Mountain is located in the Republic of South Africa southwest of the central part of the city of Cape Town on south coast bay Dining room. Table Mountain is one of business cards cities. After being recognized as one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature, she was transformed into tourist attraction. There is a cable car from the mountain.
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Dead Sea, Large barrier reef, grand canyon, Uluru, Iguazu Falls and 23 other natural wonders of nature - try to choose from only seven! Is there any point in discussing or evaluating the superiority of one miracle over another? However, a list of seven new wonders of nature has been announced, no matter how objectively we evaluate it. Everyone who wished to take part in the voting could choose a certain place by voting for it on the website or via SMS. So, we present to your attention a selection of natural wonders that are hard not to call magnificent and breathtaking. On the pages of LifeGlobe you will find stories about each of these places, as well as many others. interesting corners our amazing planet. Share your impressions, as well as write about other places that should be included in this rating.
2. Halong Bay
Countless tourists flock to Vietnam for the sole purpose of visiting the amazing Ha Long Bay. Approximately 1,900 islands, mostly uninhabited and untouched by human presence, occupy approximately 1,553 square kilometers of area with a staggering beautiful view on the sea. Huge caves and the numerous lakes found in some of the islands are another factor that makes Halong Bay one of the most beautiful corners peace. Numerous floating villages of fishermen against the background of majestic rocks, these landscapes will remain in the heart forever. Such wonders of nature are definitely worth a visit.
3. Iguazu Falls
No words can describe the majesty and beauty of the 275 waterfalls that make up Iguazu. Located on the border between the Brazilian state of Parana and the Argentinean Misiones, Iguazu Falls stretches over 2,700 meters and is surrounded by two national parks with rare species of representatives wildlife. Two viewing paths are available to tourists. Choose the lower one leading to the base of the falls, or the upper one with amazing panoramic views - both options will leave you in complete awe.
4. Jeju Island - Korean Pearl
There are natural wonders in Korea too. Located near the southern tip of South Korea, Jeju Island is the perfect getaway for the keen hiking, watching sunsets with the ocean in the background, horseback riding or just relaxing on sandy beaches. Although tourism to Jeju is on the rise, the island manages to maintain its heavenly tranquility and many places are kept intact. The central attraction of Jeju - Hallasan, the most high mountain V South Korea and a dormant volcano that rises 1,950 meters above sea level. The pearl of Korea Jeju is a real miracle.
5. Komodo National Park
Originally created to conserve the local Komodo dragon, the National Park in Indonesia now protects the entire biodiversity of three more major islands- Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller islands of volcanic origin. Rocky slopes, lush vegetation, white sandy beaches And blue waters with coral reefs - all this makes up for the serene tranquility of the National Park. The presence of giant aggressive lizards, however, gives the park a certain vibe of edginess and thrill.
6 Puerto Princesa Underground River
Puerto Princesa flows through a cave about 50 km north of the city of the same name in the Philippines. A clear, inviting lagoon surrounded by ancient trees will lead you to an amazing underground river. On a tour of the 8.2-kilometer navigable river, tourists enter a dark, ominous realm of overwhelming silence and giant karst formations. Formed over hundreds of years, imposing stalagmites and stalactites often resemble real objects and creatures. Before opening in 2007 underground river in the Yucatan Peninsula, Puerto Princesa was considered the longest underground waterway in the world. It was probably included in the list of natural wonders because of the unusual landscapes and mysterious atmosphere.
7. Cape Town Table Mountain
Table Mountain is a South African symbol and the most recognizable landmark of Cape Town. The peaked, flat-topped mountain reaching 1,086 meters above sea level is the result of six million years of erosion. The hallmark of a unique ecosystem is the richest and at the same time the smallest flower kingdom in the world, which includes 250 different varieties of daisies. The mountain is visible from anywhere in Cape Town, and from the top you can see the incredible beaches of Cape Town. Ride on cable car to the top - an unforgettable experience that will forever be remembered as one of the best memories in life. Read more about table mountains in a separate selection on LifeGlobe.
Natural wonders from this list undoubtedly deserve attention, but this does not mean that the list is final. New voting and competitions will be held annually, where the nominees may turn out to be completely different. We will continue to tell you about the most beautiful places on the planet.
What a wonderful world we live in! How many majestic architectural monuments left to us as a legacy, we will leave no less beautiful and delightful structures to our descendants. And all these wonders of the world were created by man! Even more unique and inimitable creations are created by our mother - Nature. As a result of voting by phone and via the Internet, the following Seven Wonders of Nature were named: Iguazu Falls, Amazon River, Halong Bay, Puerto Princesa Underground River, Jeju Island, Table Mountain, Komodo National Park.
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largest river in the world, the volume of which exceeds the volume of the ten largest and deep rivers in the world combined. It contains 20% of the world's fresh water. The river basin is seven million square meters. km and is the largest in the world. The Amazon carries its waters through the territory of nine South American states. Half of the rainforests on the planet grow in the river basin. There is an unusually rich and diverse flora and fauna. animal world. This great place habitats for 500 species of mammals, 175 species of lizards and 300 species of other reptiles. A myriad of birds and about 30 million different insects live in thickets of impenetrable Amazon forests.
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The main tourist attraction in Vietnam is the stunningly beautiful Ha Long Bay, listed world heritage UNESCO. There are about two thousand limestone islands in the bay. The islands have the most bizarre shapes and sizes, many of them are uninhabited, some have fishing villages. There are a lot of swimmers here. fishing villages. The islands have a huge number of stunningly beautiful caves and grottoes, fabulously decorated inside with stalagmites and stalactites. The underwater world of the bay is rich and diverse, there are more than 200 species of fish, as well as more than 450 species of mollusks.
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Iguazu is a whole complex consisting of 275 waterfalls. An unusually beautiful sight is presented by waterfalls, where water falling from a height of 80 meters shimmers and sparkles with all the colors of the rainbow in the sun. Located on the border of a Brazilian state and an Argentinean province, Iguazu is surrounded by two national parks, home to hundreds of rare species of flora and fauna. The length of the waterfall is 2700 meters. Iguazu Falls is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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One of the main attractions of South Korea, Jeju Island, is located 130 km from the coast. The area of the island is 1845 sq. km. This is the most big Island Republic of Korea, which is the highest mountain in the country - the Hallasan volcano, whose height reaches 1950 meters. This - dormant volcano, around it there are another 360 small satellite volcanoes. During the volcanic eruption, laurel caves appeared here, in which amazing natural columns of stalactites and stalagmites were formed.
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In 1980, Komodo National Park was created in Indonesia, located on big islands Komodo, Padar and Rinca, as well as on numerous small islands formed as a result of volcanic eruptions. The main task of the park was to protect and protect the largest reptiles on earth - Komodo dragons or giant monitor lizards. The park covers an area of 75 thousand hectares, it is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Until 2007, Puerto Princesa was considered the longest underground river in the world available for navigation. The length of the river is 8.2 km. For hundreds of thousands of years, many caves and grottoes have been washed out by water in the limestone mountains, the height of some of them reaches 60 meters, their width is even more impressive - 120 meters. Traveling along the underground river, you can see huge stalagmites and stalactites resembling some kind of creatures or structures. Puerto Princesa Park is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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One of the main attractions of Cape Town, the silhouette of which is depicted on the flag of the city, is Table Mountain. The mountain got its name because of the flat top, like a table. The height of the mountain reaches 1086 meters. special attention deserve the nearby famous peaks: the Devil, the Lion's Head, the Twelve Apostles.
For almost four years, the selection of votes for best miracle the nature of the planet. More than four hundred protected areas were submitted to the list of applicants for the seven new wonders of the world natural areas peace. As a result of the popular vote, 7 new wonders of the world, seven amazingly beautiful territories of the planet, received the right to the final selection.
Natural wonders of the planet - seven wonders of the world
1. Iguazu Falls is located among the bizarre heaps of rocks, on the border of two countries - Brazil and. Huge streams of water make noise, foam, break up into millions of splashes, sparkling, form several rainbows. The river has 275 waterfalls throughout its length, the highest stream falls from a height of 72 meters.
2. Mysterious places in Halong Bay are called the “place of dragons”. Straight from the emerald of the waves South China Sea scattered unusual outlines of rocks rise, resembling a Dragon, a Man's Head, Roosters, a Sail. These colorful islands have many caves and grottoes. The slopes are forested, steep and difficult to access, mostly uninhabited. There are more than a thousand of them. Salty sea lakes hide behind limestone ledges of rocks.
3. Looping, the Amazon River carries its waters through the territories of several countries. It has an incredibly huge water basin, which becomes even larger during the rainy season, spilling over a width of about a hundred kilometers. The uniqueness of the basin is the Amazonian thickets - these are mostly impenetrable jungles. An infinite number of species of flora and fauna. One of the wonders of the river is huge, round, green water lilies.
4. The Indonesian island of Komodo is magnificent, with a beautiful coral reef, consisting of tiny marine invertebrate inhabitants. The miracle of the island is the large dangerous monitor lizards that live on it. Monitor lizard - the Komodo dragon, the largest of the lizards on the planet, preys on fairly large animals.
Komodo Island
5. Jeju Island in South Korea, created by nature from basalt lava, with the once formidable Hallasan volcano and many wonderful parks - beautiful place For . The island is transformed in spring when the cherry blossoms bloom.
Jeju Island
6. Beautiful reserved places Puerto Princesa in the Philippines, where a large underground river flows. It starts in one of the caves, which has many stalactites and stalagmites.
Puerto Princesa
Droplets of water, penetrating from above into the dungeon of the caves, form relief heaps, consisting of limestone crystals - stone icicles. Those that hang on the vault of the grotto are called stalactites, and the candles that grow on the floor are called stalagmites. Some stalactites grow sideways and upwards, sometimes joining and forming bizarre columns.
7. High mountain range- Table Mountain in the Republic of South Africa, with a cut top table, a flat plateau with the peaks of the 12 apostles and the peak of the Devil. Climb to the top unusual mountain possible by cable car. Reserved places are viewed from the height of the ridge, Mountain Lake, the ocean and the city of Cape Town are far visible.
The nature of our planet is so amazing and beautiful that every time we travel, we discover new horizons for ourselves, beautiful places, countries and cities - all the new wonders of the world.
This is a competition organized by the Swiss non-profit organization Corporation of the New open world» (NOWC), which by worldwide popular vote had to find the seven most amazing natural places on the ground. Voting was completed by the mystical date - 11/11/11.
The millions of votes that have been received will begin to be processed in early 2012, as well as to check the correctness of the results of telephone and SMS voting. At the end, there will be an official inauguration of each of the New Seven Wonders of Nature in the respective national capital.
In the meantime, we can get acquainted with the winners, however, not yet officially approved - the Seven New Wonders of Nature.
About the competition
The organizer of this competition, the New Open World Corporation, has already held elections under the name "Seven New Wonders of the World", but then the famous architectural structures peace. Voting took place via SMS, telephone, Internet and ended on a beautiful date - 07.07.07.
The project started at the end of 2007. Until 07.07.09, nomination and preliminary selection of all candidates took place, among which was the Russian natural pearl - Lake Baikal. 28 candidates from nature participated in the final voting, it ended on 11/11/11. Unfortunately, our Lake Baikal did not participate in the final vote.
This new wonder of nature is located on 7,000,000 sq. km. on the territory of 9 countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela), on a vast and flat plain covering almost the entire Amazon basin. The forests themselves occupy about 5.5 million square meters. km. The Amazon jungle makes up more than half of all rainforests on Earth.
The Amazon jungle contains the largest variety of plants on Earth. According to some experts, per 1 sq. km. there are about 150,000 species of higher plants, including 75,000 species of trees. For one square kilometer Amazonian rainforest may account for up to 90,790 tons of live plant matter. This is the largest tropical forest in the world, which is called the "lungs" of our planet:
In the Amazon jungle - the most big waterfall in Ecuador by height and volume of falling water:
The largest water lily in the world - The diameter of the sheet can exceed 2 meters. She was named after the English Queen Victoria:
Every 10th described species of animal or plant is distributed in Amazonian jungle. There are 3,000 known species of fish, 1,295 species of birds, 430 species of mammals, 378 species of reptiles. Of the large predators in the Amazon jungle, the jaguar and caiman live. - the largest modern snake. Its average length is 5-6 meters, and specimens of 8-9 meters are often found. Dangerous electric rays are found in local rivers:
Macaws:
Halong Bay, Vietnam
Halo?ng Bay includes more than 3,000 islands, as well as small rocks, cliffs and caves. Its area is about 1,500 sq. km.
It is located in Vietnam and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Halong translates as " where the dragon descended into the sea". According to legend, Ha Long Island was created by a huge dragon. He always lived in the mountains, but when he began to get out of there, he hollowed out valleys of various shapes with his tail. After he plunged into the sea, the places dug out by his tail filled with water, and only small islands of land remained. locals and to this day they believe that a dragon lives in this bay.
The island has many lakes, waterfalls and grottoes, as well as coral reefs.
Panorama of Halong Bay (clickable, 1920 x 469 px):
Famous caves in Halong Bay are Bonau Grotto, Maiden's Cave and Sky Palace.
most beautiful cave Daugo's grotto is considered:
Iguazu Falls, Argentina and Brazil
The name Iguazu comes from the words "water" and "big" ( guasu).
According to legend, God wanted to marry a beautiful Aboriginal woman, but she ran away with her lover in a canoe. In a fit of anger, God cut the river, creating these incredible waterfalls dooming lovers to an eternal fall into the abyss.
The waterfalls are located on the Iguazu River on the border of Brazil and Argentina, as well as on the territory national parks Iguazu included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The waterfall complex is 2.7 km wide and includes approximately 270 individual waterfalls. Many islands separate the waterfalls from each other, and about 900 meters from overall width 2.7 km are not covered by water. The height of the water fall reaches 80 meters.
The largest waterfall - Devil's Throat- U-shaped cliff 150 meters wide and 700 meters long. best view it opens from Brazil. And so, most of the waterfalls are located within the territory of Argentina. People are visible in the center of the photo for comparison of scales:
It is the largest island and the smallest province in South Korea.
Jeju-do?- island volcanic origin. Here is the Hallasan volcano, it is also the most high mountain in South Korea (1950 meters):
The island arose several hundred million years ago after a volcanic eruption. It consists mainly of basalt and lava.
The unique nature of Jeju-do is under the protection of UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. And now he is one of Seven new wonders of nature. crater lakes in Jeju-do:
Komodo National Park was founded in 1980. It is spread over more than 600 sq. km. sushi and 1,210 sq. km. sea waters. Territory national park includes three main islands: Komodo, Rinca and Padar.
This park is in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago and is, of course, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The main attraction of the park is komodo dragon- the largest lizard of the world fauna.
Komodo dragons weigh about 70 kg, and the largest recorded - 3.13 meters in length and 166 kg.
Due to their size and lack of other large predatory mammals, Komodo dragons are at the top of the food chain. These predators have no enemies:
This river flows underground, in a cave, towards the South China Sea. Its length is about 8 km.
A National Park has been created in this area - a reserve located 50 km from the city of Puerto Princesa. Entrance to the cave underground river puerto princesa:
The cave in which the river flows has several large grottoes, many stalactites and stalagmites are also formed here:
From representatives underwater world here you can meet dugong(in translation - "mermaid", "sea maiden"):
…marine green turtle:
table mountain located southwest of Cape Town on the southern shore of Table Bay. (Clickable, 1314 x 607 px):
She is one of the visiting cards of the city, her silhouette is depicted on the flag of Cape Town:
Table Mountain: view from the sea to Cape Town. (Clickable, 1900 x 828 px):
The height of Table Mountain is 1087 meters above sea level.
table mountain with a flat top is so named because it looks like a table and least of all a mountain.
It seems gloomy and silent, but meanwhile there is a lot of life: baboons nest in the forests, snakes crawl, jackals and wild goats run.
