The Tallest, Longest, Widest and Deepest Wonders of Nature

TALLEST LONGEST WIDEST DEEPEST WONDERS OF NATURE TOP 5 metres 9,000 TALLEST MOUNTAINS 8,000 Only Mountain Peaks Illustrated 7,000 LHOTSE (E1) Nepal, Asia 27,939 feet 8,516 metres MAKALU KANGCHENJUNGA к2 MOUNT EVEREST (Godwin-Austen) Nepal, Asia 27,837 feet 8,485 metres Nepal / India, Asia 28,169 feet 8.586 metres Pakistan / China, Asia 28,251 feet Nepal / Tibet / China, Asia 29,029 feet 8,848 metres Makalu is named after The huge South Face is one of steepest in the World, rising 1.9 The name 8,611 metres Sanskrit Maha Kala Kangchenjunga translates to "Five Everest is 17 times taller (the Hindu god Shiva) and translates to "Big Black." than the World's second K2 is nicknamed the "Savage Mountain" for miles in 1.4 miles. Treasures of Snow". highest building, Taipei 101 in Taiwan. its severe weather. TOP 5 LONGEST RIVERS kilometres 4000 5000 6000 7000 Only River Mouths Illustrated NILE AMAZON YANGTZE MISSISSIPPI YENISEI (Angara - Selenga) Russia / Mongolia North East Africa South America China 6303 kilometres Missouri, USA 6650 kilometres 6400 kilometres 6279 kilometres 3902 miles 4132 miles 4000 miles 3917 miles 5544 kilometres 3445 miles There are 82 counties, and 115 cities in The Nile twists and The Amazon accounts The river Yangtze produces approximately 20% of the People's Republic of China GDP. for up to 1/5 of the tums through some of the driest desert land The Yenisei river basin is home to 55 native fish earth's fresh water. Mississippi. The Capital city is Jackson. on earth, as well as 10 countries. species. TOP 5 DEEPEST RIVERS metres 300 200 100 THE CONGO YANGTZE DANUBE ZAMBEZI MEKONG China / Asia Africa 820 feet China / Laos / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam 328 feet Europe 584 feet Africa 656 feet 381 feet 250 metres 200 metres 178 metres 116 metres The river discharges 1.46 million cubic feet of The longest river in both China and Asia, and third longest in Zambezi is known for its gorgeous feature, the Victoria Falls. Danube is classified as an 100 metres International waterway and passes through four different capital cities. water into the Atlantic The Mekong basin is known for being one of Ocean every second. the World. the World's richest areas of biodiversity. TOP 5 LARGEST LAKES miles 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 CASPIAN SEA SUPERIOR VICTORIA HURON MICHIGAN Tanzania / (Mazandaran) Azerbaljan / Russia/ Kazakhstan / Turk menistan / Iran U.S. / Canada U.S./ Canada U.S. 31,820 sq. 23,010 sq. 22,400 sq. Uganda 26,828 sq. miles miles miles 152,239 sq. miles miles Superior is the coldest, deepest, The water of Lake Michigan has an unusual circulatory Home to many shipwrecks, Lake Huron has the Lake Victoria has The Caspian Sea or Mazandaran Sea is a landlocked sea between and highest in elevation of any of more than 200 species of fish. longest shoreline of the Great Lakes. the Great Lakes. pattern. Asia and Europe. TOP 5 DEEPEST LAKES meters 1700 1500 1300 1100 900 700 500 300 100 THE CASPIAN SEA BAIKAL TANGANYIKA VOSTOK O'HIGGINS-SAN Central Africa 4,823 feet 1,470 metres deep MARTÍN Chile / Argentina 2,742 feet 836 meters deep Siberia, Russia Antarctica 3,000 feet 900 metres deep 5369 feet 3,363 feet 1,025 metres deep 1,637 metres deep Contains roughly 20% of the World's unfrozen surface fresh water. Tanganyika is divided among four countries: Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, It has no outflows and is Located beneath Russia's Vostok bounded by Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Station under the surface of the central Viewed from above, the lake consists of a series of finger-shaped flooded valleys. Burundi and Zambia. Kazakhstan. East Antarctic Ice Sheet TOP 5 LARGEST DESERTS ANTARCTIC ARCTIC SAHARA ARABIAN GOBI Alaska / Canada / Greenland / Iceland/ China / Mongolia 1.3 million sq. km Antarctica Africa Arabian 13.8 million sg. km 9.1 million sq. km Norway /Sweden/ Finland / Russia Peninsula 2.3 million sq. km The Gobi is the largest desert in Asia: the land is made of rock and gravel. Known as the world's The Sahara is the 13.7 million sq. km driest desert. World's hottest desert. The Arabian Desert is The sand dunes move an extension of the Sahara Desert over the The Arctic is a cold like waves. desert because it gets very little precipitation (rain or snow). Arabian peninsula. TOP 5 LARGEST RAINFORESTS AMAZON CONGO BASIN TAIGA (BOREAL) SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIAN TEMPERATE ASIAN Central Africa 2 million sq. km South Americas 1.2 million sg. km (60% falls in Brazil) 6.7 million sq. km Canada / Europe / Asia Australia 525,000 sq. km 1.1 million sq. km This forestand its river were the subject of a famous book The Southeast Asian forests are one of the The forest floor is almost completely dark, with less that 1% of sunlight. A number of threatened Recently this forest has been found to be earth's most and endangered wildlife species can be found in the Taiga. called The Heart of biologically diverse. the home of the Darkness by Joseph Conrad. World's most carbon-dense forests. TOP 5 DEEPEST POINTS OF THE OCEANS SOUTH SANDWICH TRENCH CHALLENGER DEEP, MARIANA TRENCH JAVA TRENCH EURASIAN BASIN Indian Ocean -23.376 feet Arctic Ocean -17,881 feet PUERTO RICO TRENCH Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean Pacific Ocean -23,736 feet -28,374 feet -36,070 feet -10,994 metres -7125 metres -5450 metres -7235 metres -8648 metres Recent earthquake activity in the Java Trench could lead to a major It was created about 63 million years ago by the spreading of the sea floor. If Mount Everest were The South Sandwich Trench is tectonically active, meaning it could become deeper as the plates move. The Puerto Rico Trench is natural catastrophe in the next decade. associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth. placed in this location it would still be covered by water. www.shaktihimalaya.com