Hi friends🙂 , welcome back to my new blog . Today's topic is all about the natural wonders of the world.
The is the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest in the Himalaya range of mountains stands at approximately 29,000 feet. In 1865, the mountain was named after Sir George Everest, the British surveyor general of India. The first persons to climb mount everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing norgay in 1953.
Running along the northeast cost of Australia , the longest coral reef in the world spans almost 2,600km. The reef is located in the coral sea off the coast of Queensland.
The reef is home not just to coral but to mare than 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc Because of the abundance of fish, the reef is also home to more than 200 species of birds.
An immense chasm carved through the rocks due to million of years of erosion by the Colorado river, that is the Grand Canyon. Over million of years , the different rock layers in the canyon walls have responded uniquely to this erosion forming shapes and cliffs.
Erosion continues to affect the Grand Canyon but as it stands, the Grand Canyon George is 5000 feet deep, 446km long and 29km wide.
The Victoria falls is 1,708 m wide , making it the largest in curtain of water in the world. It drops between 90m and 107m into the Zambezi George and an average of 550,000 cubic metres of water plummet over the edge every minute.
Known locally as Mosi-oa -tunya ,the smoke that thunders- the spray of the falls rises 1,650ft into the sky. The Makolobo tribe gave the falls it's traditional name. However ,in 1855 ,David Livingston ,the white man to see the falls, named it after Queen Victoria.
Though the Tupi Indians had long lived around the harbour of Rio de Janeiro ,the Portuguese explorers who arrived in 1502 named the bay, Rio de janerio - River of January, after the month in which they arrived.
Harbour is located on the east cost of Brazil in the Gunanabara Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Jutting into the bay is the massive 1,325ft high sugar loaf mountain. Other mountain loom to the north and west surrounding the bay with unbelievable beauty.
The paricutin volcano is small by volcanic standards. It was the first volcano to be birthed and formed under the eyes of the facinated world. Paricutin first exploded in 1943 in a cornfield.
The volcano was to remain active for the next eight years. Over the next two years, the slow moving lava buried the town of paricutin. By the time the volcano went dormant in 1952, it had reached a height of 1,400feet.
Suprisingly , no one was killed by the lava or ash though three people died when struck by lightning associated with the eruption.
Northern lights are a light phenomenon often seen in the northern regions. Northern lights occur as a result of solar particles colliding with the gases in the earth's atmosphere.
The collision energy between the solar particle and the gas molecules is emitted as a photon, a light particle. Many such collisions cause an aurora - lights that seem to move across the sky.
It was the Italian mathematician, Galileo Galilei , who gave the phenomenon it's scientific name, Aurora Borealis, which means the red dawn of the north. In Norway , the phenomenon is known as Nordlys. For an aurora to be seen with naked eye, about 100 million photons have to be produced.
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~ Rekha
