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  2. Stromness Bay - Wikipedia

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    Stromness Bay is a bay 3 miles (4.8 km) wide, entered between Cape Saunders and Busen Point on the north coast of South Georgia. Stromness Bay, like Leith Harbour takes its name from a location in Scotland, Stromness, on the Orkney Mainland. This is partially because both places called Stromness were whaling centres.

  3. Category:Waterfalls of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Waterfalls of Mauritius" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. T. Tamarind Falls

  4. Le Morne Brabant - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).

  6. Thatcher Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Central South Georgia: Cumberland Bay; Thatcher Peninsula with King Edward Cove in the lower center; Allardyce Range with the summit Mt. Paget (NASA imagery). Thatcher Peninsula ( 54°17′S 36°32′W  /  54.283°S 36.533°W  / -54.283; -36.533 ) is a mountainous peninsula in north-central South Georgia

  7. List of submarine volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    Map of world's major seamounts. A list of active and extinct submarine volcanoes and seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. [1] Almost all are not well-mapped and many may not have been identified at all. Most are unnamed and unexplored.

  8. Geology of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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    The island of South Georgia is unusual among oceanic islands for having pre-Cretaceous sedimentary rocks underlying much of the island and a significant portion of felsic igneous rocks. Two-thirds of the island consists of intensely folded flysch , capped with Aptian age fossils, tuff and greywacke in the Cumberland Bay Series.

  9. Takhti-Tepha Natural Monument - Wikipedia

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    This mud volcano is located on plane, south of Dali water reservoir, at 620 m above sea level in Dedoplistsqaro Municipality, Georgia and incorporated in Vashlovani Protected Areas. [1] Mud craters, along with small open vents are constantly active, erupting mud, oil and gas. [ 2 ]