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Zhangye National Geopark ( simplified Chinese: 张掖国家地质公园; traditional Chinese: 張掖國家地質公園; pinyin: Zhāngyè Guójiā Dìzhìgōngyuán) is located in Sunan and Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China. It covers an area of 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi). The site became a quasi ...
It focuses on images of the natural world (such as rivers, mountains, deserts, and forests) [2] as well as man-made structures (such as city skylines). However, that is rarer and separated from nature photography. As such, landscape photography is an adjacent rather than a sub-category of nature photography. Landscape photograph circa. 1873–83
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. [1] A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea ...
Taroko National Park covers an area of 92,000 hectares (360 sq mi). It is located in Hualien County, Taichung City, and Nantou County, and is home to unique geological and natural resources, including twenty-seven peaks over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) located in and around the Qilai and Nanhu Mountain ranges.
A canyon (from Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon ), [ 1] gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. [ 2] Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as ...
The mountains surrounding the cliff reach heights of up to 843 metres (2,766 ft). Some of the hilltops have plains which are interspersed with lakes. Nearby, close to the end of the Lysefjord, is the 1,110-metre (3,640 ft) tall mountain Kjerag which is also a hiking destination. Some tourists elect to forgo trips to Preikestolen and go to ...
Rock formations in Ongamira Valley, Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina. Belogradchik Rocks, Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria. "Jaws", an erosional fin in Little Finland, Nevada, US. "Hajdučka vrata" on Čvrsnica, Herzegovina. Paklenica, Croatia. Devil's Town, Serbia. Three Sisters in Blue Mountains, Australia. A rock formation is an isolated, scenic, or ...
The Blyde River Canyon is a 26 km long [ 1] Canyon located in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It is one of the larger canyons on Earth but much smaller than those of Asia, the Grand Canyon and the Fish River Canyon. [ 1][ 2] Unlike the Grand and Fish River Canyon, the Blyde River Canyon is a "green canyon" which is dominated by subtropical vegetation.