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	Lhotse World » WRD Place » Tourism 34 views 💖 1
Mt. Lhotse is connected to Everest via the South Col and is the fourth highest mountain in the world. The main summit is 8,516 m while Lhotse Middle (East) is 8,414 metres and Lhotse Shar is 8,383 metres. Very often, climbers making an attempt on Everest, go up the Lhotse to acclimatize.

	K2 World » WRD Place » Tourism Asia 35 views 💖 1
K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.

	Cho Oyu World » WRD Place » Tourism Himalayas 34 views 💖 1
Mount Cho Oyu is the world’s sixth highest mountain. This is the westernmost major peak in the Khumbu Sub region along the Mahalangur range. Cho Oyu stands on the border between Nepal and China. The peak lies in the Mahalangur sub range of the Nepal Himalayas. It elevates to a height of 8,201 m or 26,906 feet.

	Rocky Mountains World » WRD Place » Tourism North American Cordilleram 34 views 💖 1
The Rocky Mountain region is one of the most topographically distinct and impressive parts of North America. The Rocky Mountains rise abruptly above the bordering regions, particularly on the east and northeast where they are flanked by plains, less so on the west and southwest where they are bounded by high plateaus.

	Makalu World » WRD Place » Tourism Asia 32 views 💖 1
Mt.Makalu is 20 km east of Everest in the Khumbu region and is the fifth highest moutain in the world. The mountain lies in the Makalu Barun National Park and is known for its perfect pyramid shape with four sharp ridges.

	Kangchenjunga World » WRD Place » Tourism Himalayas 28 views 💖 1
Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world. It rises with an elevation of 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas called Kangchenjunga Himal that is limited in the west by the Tamur River and in the east by the Teesta River. The Kangchenjunga Himal is located in eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India.

	Sea of Azov World » WRD Place » Tourism 33 views 💖 1
The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about 4 km (2.5 mi)) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea. The sea is bounded by Russia on the east, and by Ukraine on the northwest and southwest (the parts of Ukraine bordering the sea are currently under Russian occupation).

	Ionian Sea World » WRD Place » Tourism Ionian Sea 30 views 💖 1
The Ionian Sea is located between the countries of Italy, Greece and Albania and forms part of the Mediterranean Sea. In the north, this sub-sea is separated from the Adriatic Sea by the Strait of Otranto. In the south it passes directly into the Libyan Sea.

	Tyrrhenian Sea World » WRD Place » Tourism Tyrrhenian Sea 33 views 💖 1
The Tyrrhenian Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people, identified since the 6th century BC with the Etruscans of Italy. The sea is bordered by Corsica and Sardinia (to the west), the Italian peninsula the Tuscany Region, Lazio Region, Campania Region, Basilicata Region, and Calabria Region to the east, and Sicily (to the south).

	Bashi Channel World » WRD Place » Tourism Bashi Channel 32 views 💖 1
The Bashi Channel is a waterway between Mavulis Island of the Philippines and Orchid Island of Taiwan. It is a part of the Luzon Strait between the East China Sea and the South China Sea. It is characterized by windy storms during the rainy period, which lasts from June to December.

	Bering Strait World » WRD Place » Tourism Bering Strait 25 views 💖 1
Located between Alaska and Russia, the Bering Strait is the only marine gateway between the icy Arctic and the Pacific Ocean. At its narrowest point, the strait is only 55 miles wide. The Bering Strait may be narrow, but it’s teeming with wildlife—beluga whales, bowhead whales, gray whales, walruses, polar bears, ringed and ribbon seals.

	Adriatic Sea World » WRD Place » Tourism Adriatic Sea 30 views 💖 1
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula. The Adriatic Sea is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, and Slovenia.

	Mozambique Channel World » WRD Place » Tourism Indian Ocean 32 views 💖 1
The Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is about 1,700 km (900 nmi; 1,100 mi) long and 419 km (226 nmi; 260 mi) across at its narrowest point, and reaches a depth of 3,292 m (10,801 ft) about 230 km (124 nmi; 143 mi) off the coast of Mozambique.

	Luzon Strait World » WRD Place » Tourism Luzon Strait 43 views 💖 1
The Luzon Strait is the strait between Taiwan and Luzon, the northern portion of the Philippine archipelago. The strait thereby connects the Philippine Sea to the South China Sea in the western Pacific Ocean. This body of water is an important strait for shipping and communications. Many ships from the Americas use this route to go to important East Asian ports.

	Ural Mountains World » WRD Place » Tourism Ural Mountains 29 views 💖 1
The Ural Mountains, an ancient and majestic range, stand as a natural boundary between Europe and Asia. This geographical marvel has played a crucial role in shaping the historical, cultural, and even climatic aspects of both continents. The highest peak, Mount Narodnaya, rises to an elevation of 1,895 meters.

	Alborz World » WRD Place » Tourism Alborz Mountain Range 36 views 💖 1
The Alborz or Elborz Mountain range is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merges into the smaller Aladagh Mountains and borders in the northeast on the parallel mountain ridge Kopet Dag in the northern parts of Khorasan.

	Bennu World » WRD Place » Space Universe 38 views 💖 1
101955 Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. Bennu has a 1 in nearly 1,800 chance to hit Earth in the next 300 years.

	Pacific Ocean World » WRD Place » Tourism Pacific Ocean 36 views 💖 1
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.

	Saturn World » WRD Place » Space Universe 31 views 💖 1
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It has a whopping 145 moons. It's the farthest planet from Earth that's visible to the unaided eye, but the planet's most outstanding features — its rings — are better viewed through a telescope. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-a-half times that of Earth.

	Atlantic Ocean World » WRD Place » Tourism Atlantic Ocean 37 views 💖 1
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest ocean in the world, covering approximately 106.5 million square kilometers (41.1 million square miles). It separates the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from North and South America to the west. The deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean is the Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench, which reaches a depth of about 8,376 meters (27,480 feet).