There are many lists of the Natural Wonders of our planet. These lists include several of the most beautiful places of the World like mountains, water falls, rainforest, canyons, volcanos, natural reserves, forests, national parks, lakes, landscapes, rock formations, seascapes, caves, valleys, ice formations, rivers, or islands.
One of the most known lists of natural wonders is CNN's list. This list is composed by the following 7 Wonders of Nature:
Alaska, USA
Aurora
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 from east to west.
LEARN MOREArizona, USA
Grand Canyon
A steep-sided gorge carved over millennia through the rocks of the Colorado Plateau. Take time to enjoy its beauty and size, to sit and to watch the changing play of light and shadows over its vast spaces.
LEARN MORERio de Janeiro, Brazil
Harbour of Rio de Janeiro
The Harbour of Rio de Janeiro is a natural beauty surrounded by the city of Rio and formed by the Atlantic Ocean which wore out the soil and rocks along the coast.
LEARN MORESagarmatha, Nepal
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia and with its 8,848 meters is the highest mountain on earth. It is also called Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma
LEARN MOREMichoacán, Mexico
Parícutin Volcano
Parícutin is a cinder cone volcano which from its birth of eruption between 1943 and 1952, it represented a dramatic period in the lives of Parícutin people, but like most cinder cones it will never erupt again.
LEARN MOREQueensland, Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Sadly endangered by human activity, it is the largest Coral Reef in the world and is the only collective organism that can be seen from spacecraft orbiting the Earth.
LEARN MORELivingstone, Zambia
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls is one of the best spectacular natural wonders of the world, also called “Mosi-oa-Tunya” constitutes the largest curtain of water in the world into the Zambezi Gorge with its 1708 meters wide.
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