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The noise is deafening, the smell overpowering, but at least they are all smartly dressed. This is one of the world's largest gatherings of penguins, and it takes place on a tiny island 1100 miles (1800km) east of the tip of ...

This untamed landscape of rugged, peaks, deep valleys and icy lakes and rivers, is known as the 'Last Great Wilderness. Human activity has hardly touched the central and eastern parts of Brooks Range - the tip of the Rocky Mountains that ...

As the shipwrecked but glamorous Jessica Lange approaches a towering, jungly island in the 1976 remake of King Kong, she murmurs silkily, 'I feel this is going to be the biggest thing in my life. A pedantic viewer might add: ' ...

On the map, the tiny dot that marks Ball's Pyramid is almost lost in the surrounding ocean. It is an obelisk so tall that it seems to touch the sky. Although only 440yds (400m) across as its base, Ball's Pyramid reaches ...

Two years into the pandemic, Bhutan is ready to open its borders, but with a sustainable development fee (SDF) of $200 per person per day for tourists from different countries. It is in addition to the other travel expenses. However, for ...

Shaped like a well-worn thigh boot, Fraser Island, lying off the Queensland coast, is an island built of sand. There are beaches and dunes of golden sand along its shored, and in places, the 77 miles (124km) long island has cliffs ...

If your heart is still young enough to quicken at stories of a faraway, secret land where verdant valleys bloom amid arctic snows, and lost gold mines are guarded by wild men and spirits of the forest, then the Nahanni River ...

The barren rockscape of south-eastern Utah resembles the surface of some fantastic planet. Rugged pillars of rock, sculpted to every imaginable shape and size, just up from the desert floor. But far more astonishing are the 200 or so stone arches ...

To the eye of the osprey (a large fish-eating hawk) soaring overhead, Western Brook Pond looks like a shimmering jewel dropped by a giant hand. The jewel's landing place is the bottom of a 2000ft (600m) deep canyon, cut into the ...

From the plains beside it, the rim of Meteor Crater looks like a low hill, giving no hint of the immense hollow it surrounds. Blasted out when a giant meteorite struck the ground here around 50, 000 years ago, the crater ...

Weird pinnacles of rock seem to float like a mirage on the brilliant blue waters of Mono lake, which gleams like of jewel in a setting of sand flats and sagebrush ringed by mountains. ' A country of wonderful contrasts, hot ...

Countless tributaries swell the great Congo River on its long curve to the Atlantic from grasslands on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. They drain an area of rainforest and high grassland roughly the size of India. ...