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Le Morne Brabant [lə mɔʁn bʁa.bɑ̃] is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. On it is a basaltic monolith of the same name 556 metres (1,824 ft) high.
Le Morne Cultural Landscape: Rivière Noire: 2008 1259bis; iii, vi (cultural) Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as a shelter by runaway slaves, maroons, through the 18th and early years of the 19th centuries. Protected by the mountain’s isolated, wooded and ...
In 2008, Le Morne Brabant, a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of Mauritius where Maroons established small communities in the 19th century, was listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site. [5] It represents a symbol of resistance to slavery.
Home to Gros Morne National Park, the second largest national park in Atlantic Canada, Rocky Harbour is known for soaring fjords and cloud-draped mountains. Shaped by slowly moving glaciers over ...
Le Morne Beach, the southwest tip of Mauritius; Horizontal resolution: 100 dpi: Vertical resolution: 100 dpi: Software used: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.2 (Macintosh) File change date and time: 19:43, 3 May 2024: Exposure Program: Normal program: Exif version: 2.31: Date and time of digitizing: 18:46, 1 January 2023: Shutter speed: 6. ...
Le Morne Cultural Landscape: Cultural: 1259 Mexico: Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve: Natural: 1290: Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco: Cultural: 1274 Papua New Guinea: Kuk Early Agricultural Site (F) Cultural: 887 San Marino: San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano (F) Cultural: 1245 Saudi ...
Michigan features over 20 waterfalls, primarily in the Upper Peninsula. The natural water formations provide tourist attractions across the state's rural regions. Here's a look at five of the ...
The Balkans is a region which natural borders do not coincide with the technical definition of a peninsula hence modern geographers reject the idea of a Balkan Peninsula. It would include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.