In June this year, I wrote about the “New 7 Wonders of Nature” campaign. The second phase of the campaign is now complete, 28 Official Finalist Candidates have been selected, and the campaign is now in its third phase.
You can now register your vote for 7 of the following:
- Amazon Rainforest in South America
- Angel Falls, at 1002 metres the highest waterfall in the world, on the border of Venezuela and Brazil
- Bay of Fundy, located partly in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada, it has the highest tidal range on the planet, at 16.2 metres)
- Black Forest (Schwarzwald) in south-western Germany
- Bu Tinah Shoals is a tiny archipelago amid extensive coral formations and seagrass beds near the United Arabian Emirates
- Cliffs of Moher, spectacular sea cliffs in Co Clare, Ireland
- Dead Sea, a salt lake, 420 metres below sea level, between the West Bank/Palestine/Israel to the west and Jordan to the east
- El Yunque National Forest on the island of Puerto Rico
- Galapagos Islands, an archipelago of volcanic islands around the equator, belonging to Ecuador
- Grand Canyon, a steep-sided gorge up to 1.6 km deep, carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, USA
- Great Barrier Reef, the earth’s largest coral reef, visible from outer space, off the coast of north-east Australia
- Halong Bay, in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam, featuring thousands of limestone karsts and islets in various sizes and shapes
- Iguazu Falls between Brazil and Argentina, are one of the largest waterfalls on the planet, extending over 2700 m in a semi-circular shape
- Jeita Grotto a compound of interconnected karstic limestone caves in Lebanon
- Jeju Island, a volcanic island off the coast of South Korea
- Mount Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, it is an inactive stratovolcano in Tanzania, and the highest peak in Africa (5892 metres)
- Komodo National Park in Indonesia
- Maldive Islands is an island nation made up of 26 atolls in the Indian Ocean
- Masurian lake district in north-eastern Poland consists of more than 2000 lakes
- Matterhorn/Cervino, a mountain peak in the European Alps between Italy and Switzerland
- Milford Sound, a fjord in the south west of New Zealand’s South Island
- Mud Volcanoes, about 300 are found in Gobustan, Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea
- Puerto Princesa Underground River in the Philippines is a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 kilometer navigable underground river
- Sundarbans delta at the mouth of the Ganges River, is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world
- Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain that is the most prominent landmark of the city of Cape Town, South Africa
- Uluru (Ayers Rock) is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia
- Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy
- Yushan is the highest mountain in Taiwan
Go and vote! 🙂
I must confess that I have never been to the Bay of Fundy to see the high tides. Maybe it would be a good destination for a driveabout 🙂
OOOOH! Yes, I saw that the Bay of Fundy must be near you! Maybe you can write a post about it, like Kathy’s been doing with her drive-abouts at the moment! I’d love to read it!