Thursday, December 24, 2009

7.Harbour of Rio de Janeiro

Quick Facts:

Located around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Harbour of Rio de JaneiroSurrounded by unique mountains and formations
Rio de Janeiro translates "river of January" in Portuguese













The Harbour of Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil and was created by erosion from the Atlantic ocean.Harbour of Rio de Janeiro is surrounded by gorgeous mountains that include Sugar Loaf at 1,296 feet (395 m), Corcovado Peak at 2,310 feet (704 m), and the hills of Tijuca at 3,350 feet (1021 m).The Sheraton Rio Resort & Hotel is Seven Natural Wonders.





















The best ways to see the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro are to get above it. Some visitors will seek to discover and view the harbor and surrounding area by taking to the skies.














The best way to experience the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro depends on the interest of those visiting this natural wonder. Enjoying the soft white sandy beaches is expected whether participating in one of the many exercise or stretching programs, playing volleyball or other sporting venues, or just lounging around and taking in the sun.













The best times to explore the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro are during the months of September and October. The weather is nice and the humidity has not set in. Sugar Loaf Mountain can be done in under two hours and should be done during the morning when the sun is coming in from the east. The sun will be rising behind you as you take in the views of the mountains.













Getting to Rio de Janeiro is easy. The city is one of the largest and most popular cities in Brazil. Many major airlines fly directly into the city providing plenty of options for travel. The city does have public transportation but taxis and even private drivers are reasonably priced.

6.Mount Everest

Quick Facts:

Highest mountain in the world, represents the highest spot on the earth's surface
Summit reaches a peak of 29,029 feet (8,848 m)
Located in the Himalaya mountains on the border between Nepal and Tibet
Also known as Chomolungma








Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world with the summit reaching a peak of 29,029 feet (8,848 m). Mount everest is located in the Himalayan mountain range on the border
between Nepal and Tibet, China.












Mount Everest represent the highest spot on earth, but it is not the tallest mountain in the world. Mount McKinley in Alaska is the tallest mountain based on measurements taken from the base of the mountain, Mount Mckinley is above sea level, to the peak.














However, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the actual tallest mountain in the world measured from its base, of which most of it is under water. Collectively, it rises 6.3 miles (10,200 m) from the base beneath the sea to the peak at 13,796 feet (4,205 m).














The Challenger Deep, off the Mariana islands, is the deepest spot in the ocean. If Mount Everest were placed inside the cavern there would be more than 1.3 miles (2 km) of water still covering it.














mount everest is the highest mountain in the world .mount everest is one of the natural wonders of the world.howeverMount Everest is the highest mountain in the world with the summit reaching a peak of 29,029 feet (8,848 m).

5.Great Barrier Reef

Quick Facts:

Largest coral reef system in the world
Consists of over 2,900 separate reefs
Stretches over 1,600 miles (2,600 km)
Can be seen from outer space
The 133,000 square miles (344,000 km) includes 900 islands














The great barrier reef is the world’s largest individual formation created by living organisms.














As the largest coral reef in the world, the Great Barrier Reef includes over 900 islands, over 2,900 separate reefs, and supports one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.












the Great Barrier Reef is blessed with the breathtaking beauty of the world's largest coral reef. The reef contains an abundance of marine life and comprises of over 3000 individual reef systems.












The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, and pulling away from it, and viewing it from a greater distance, you can understand why.















great barrier reef is larger than the Great Wall of China and the only living thing on earth visible from space.
4.Victoria Falls

Quick Facts:

Also called Mosi-oa-Tunya meaning “smoke that thunders.”
Largest waterfall based on width and height
One mile wide (1.7 km) and 360 feet high (108 meters)
Two national parks (Zambia) and (Zimbabwe) protect the falls




















Victoria Falls is a waterfall located in southern Africa on the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Zambezi River serves as the fall's water source. With the collective height and width of the falls, it is attributed as the largest sheet of falling water in the world.


















The name Victoria Falls was given by the Scottish explorer Dr. David Livingstone.












Victoria Falls is a town in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It lies on the southern bank of the Zambezi River at the western end of the Victoria Falls themselves.














It is connected by road and railway to Hwange (109 km away) and Bulawayo (440 km away), both to the south-east.According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 8,114, this rose to 16,826 in the 1992 census.













Victoria Falls Airport is 18 km south of the town and has international services to Johannesburg and Namibia.



3. Paricutin

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A cinder cone volcano
Official height varies reported as 9,101 feet (2,774 meters) or 10,397 feet (3,000 meters)
Last erupted in 1952
Youngest in America and birth witnessed by a huma




















Paricutin is a cinder cone volcano in Michoacan, Mexico. Paricutin was named one of the seven natural wonders as an active volcano.













The volcano or particutin has been dormant since the last eruption in 1952. particutin was established as a natural wonder because mankind witnessed its birth.

The volcano or particutn was also fast growing reaching three-fourths of its size within the first year.
The Paricutin eruption took place between February 1943 and February 1952.

The Paricutin volcano grew out of a cornfield.














The worst of Paricutin's volcanic activity, took place in 1943, with its lava rising to about 50 feet below the crater's rim.
The Paricutin volcano now stands at exactly 1,345 feet above the ground and 9,210 feet above sea level.
It hardened lava is covers about 10 square miles, its volcanic sand (unconsolidated fragments of volcanic material) covers about 20 square miles.The type of eruption which happened at Paricutin is called a Strombolian eruption, which means it gushed basaltic lava, and exploded from a single vent. Nearly 1000 people died following one of its last major eruptions in 1949.
is situated about 200 miles west of Mexico City, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.












Ashes from the volcano fell as far as Mexico City.
The Paricutin is part of the Volcanic Axis, a.k.a., "The Transversal", a 700 mile line of volcanoes that extends across southern Mexico in an east-west direction.
It is the only one of several hundred cones in the area to have erupted in historic times.













The Paricutin is a Monogenetic cone, meaning it stems from a single point of eruption.
The man who first Witnessed the eruption in 1943, was Dominic Pulido, a Tarascan Indian farmer."Flaco" is a fictitious composite character, created to facilitate the telling of the story.













Paricutin is named after a small Tarascan Indian village.
2.Grand Canyon

Quick Facts

* The canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long
* The width ranges from 4 to 18 miles (6.4 to 29 km)
* The depth is over one mile (1.83 km)
* Majority is housed within Grand Canyon National Par















The Grand Canyon is a massive gorge located in the state of Arizona in the United States, and was created by the Colorado River. Although not the steepest nor the longest canyon in the world, the Grand Canyon is recognized as a natural wonder because of the overall scale and size combined with the beautifully colored landscape. The canyon offers a variety of lookouts and experiences that provide visitors with a view that cannot be matched.
1.Aurora, United States
Wonder: Aurora
Country: United States
Region: Alaska
Visitable: Yes
About:
Natural colored light displays in the sky, usually observed in the polar zone at night. Often it appears as a greenish glow rising from an unusual direction extending in east-west.














Aurorae are natural colored light displays in the sky which are usually observed in the polar zone at night. They occur in the ionosphere in this way some scientists call them “polar auroras”. The effect is known as the aurora borealis in northern latitudes, “Aurora” is for Roman goddess of dawn and “boreas” is for Greek name for north wind. Also called the northern polar lights because it is only visible in the Northern sky from the Northern Hemisphere and it most often occurs from September to October and from March to April. The Cree call it the “Dance of the Spirits”. In southern parts is called aurora australis or southern polar lights with similar properties, “australis” is the latin word for “of the south”.

On August 28, 1859 and September 2, 1859 as a result of the “great geomagnetic storm” are produced the auroras, the most spectacular ever witnessed throughout recent recorded history. Probably the aurora was produced by one of the most intense coronal mass ejections in history, very near to the maximum intensity of the sun. Some telegraph lines seem to have been of the appropriate length and orientation which allowed a current to be induced in them and actually used for communication. The following conversation occurred between two operators around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the aurora.