Mother Nature's Beauty

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Naracoorte Caves National Park in South Australia is a World Heritage site.
Naracoorte Caves, along with the Riversleigh fossil site in far north-west Queensland, form the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites World Heritage Area. Both sites were officially recognised in 1994 for their importance in telling the story of Australia’s unique animal heritage.
At Naracoorte, the caves have acted as pitfall traps and owl roosting sites, collecting animals for at least 500,000 years. The Caves preserve the most complete fossil record we have for this period of time, spanning several ice ages, the arrival of humans in the area and the extinction of Australia’s iconic Megafauna roughly 60,000 years ago.
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Valley of Flowers
The Yumthang Valley or Sikkim Valley of Flowers sanctuary, is a nature sanctuary with river, hot springs, yaks and grazing pasture on rolling meadows surrounded by the Himalayan mountains in the North Sikkim district of Sikkim state in India. It is at an elevation of 3,564 metres.
It is popularly known as 'Valley of Flowers and is home to the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary, which has over twenty-four species of the rhododendron, the state flower. The flowering season is from late February and to mid June, when countless flowers bloom to carpet the valley in multicolored hues of rainbow. A tributary of the river Teesta flows past the valley and the town of Lachung, the nearest inhabited centre. Yumthang is closed between December and March due to heavy snowfall. There is also a hot spring in the valley.
A forest rest house is the only permanent residence in the valley. During the spring months, the area blooms with rhododendrons, primulas, poppies, iris and other flora. During the summer months, villagers take their cattle to these heights to graze (a practice known as yaylag pastoralism). In view of increasing number of tourists, there is possibility of environmental degradation in near future.
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Tania Smiley said:
With everything going on in our world at the moment and Mother Nature showing it's ugly side, we all need a reminder of just how beautiful Mother Nature is too.

Please feel free to contribute your favourite Natural Wonders to this thread, ideally at least one pic and it's location if you do :)

Lechuguilla Cave


At 138.3 miles (222.6 km), Lechuguilla Cave is the eighth-longest explored cave in the world and the second deepest (1,604 feet or 489 meters) in the continental United States. It is most famous for its unusual geology, rare formations, and pristine condition.

The cave is named for the canyon through which it is entered, which is named for Agave lechuguilla, a species of plant found there. Lechuguilla is in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. Access to the cave is limited to approved scientific researchers, survey and exploration teams, and National Park Service management-related trips.

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Fairy Chimneys, Turkey

These strange conical spires are found in the Cappadocia region of Turkey.

Several million years ago, active volcanoes spewed volcanic ash that covered the ground. Rainwater and wind eroded the soft compressed volcanic ash, leaving behind the harder overlying basalts, forming the fairy chimneys.

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Tasmania, Australia

Mainstream geology calls these formations Tessellated Pavements. They claim it’s natural for a relatively flat rock to systematically fracture evenly and in specific patterns.

I assume geologists can tell if the stone is directly related to the stone next to it to justify their position. I generally trust science in these matters.

Resembling a mosaic floor it obviously make people wonder if these formations were man made by a civilization predating the last Ice-age.

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Sørvágsvatn is the largest lake on the Faroe Islands and sits high up on a cliff with only a small sliver of land separating it from emptying entirely into to the ocean.

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Just magic.

Am trying to work out how that happened. Small glacial lake sitting over the top of major glacial carved fjordlands?
 
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Hallelujah Mountains, China - These Chinese mountains are the inspiration for creating the environment in the movie Avatar and they are wonder of nature.

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Flathead Lake, the clearest water on Earth.

Flathead Lake is a large natural lake in northwest Montana and is the largest natural freshwater lake by surface area that is west of the source of the Missouri River in the contiguous United States. The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula of the era of the last interglacial.
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