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Taibai Shan
Taibai Shan (太白山), Great White Mountain, highest peak of the Qinling Mountains and of eastern mainland China at about 3,767-3,771 m in Shaanxi; granite massif with Quaternary glacial cirques, Daye Lake, and full vertical vegetation belts on China's north-south divide.
Taihang Mountains
Taihang Mountains (太行山), a 500-km fault-block range in northern China forming the boundary between the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain; highest peak Wutai Mountain, about 3,091 m.
Tail Island
Tail Island (Cola, isla) is a circular Antarctic island, 1.25 mi across and 130 m high, in NE Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula, midway between Egg and Eagle Islands; charted by FIDS in 1945 and named for its position among Eagle, Beak, and Egg Islands.
Taimyr
Taimyr (Taymyr) is a peninsula and freshwater ecoregion in northern Siberia, Russia, between the Yenisei and Anabar drainages, draining to the Kara and Laptev seas. It holds Cape Chelyuskin, the Arctic's largest lake basin (Lake Taimyr, 4,560 km2), and the lake-dense Putorana Plateau.
Taisetsuzan
Taisetsuzan (大雪山), also called the Daisetsuzan or Taisetsu volcano group, is a complex of over 20 stratovolcanoes in central Hokkaido, Japan, with Asahidake, 2,291 m, as its highest peak.
Taitagan Island
Taitagan Island, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines (Cebuano and Filipino: Taitagan Island), a low 5-metre island in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at 5.18°N, 120.05°E, near Languyan; distinct from a second Taitagan Islet in the Philippines.
Taitailei
Taitailei is an alternate name for the Taitao Peninsula (Península de Taitao), a Chilean peninsula in Aysén near the Chile Triple Junction, known for ridge subduction, the Taitao ophiolite, and its role as a biogeographic barrier.
Taiwan (landform)
Taiwan, called Formosa by 16th-century Portuguese sailors, is a mountainous island of about 36,000 square kilometers east of the Asian mainland, with more than 200 peaks above 3,000 meters.
Tajumulco
Tajumulco (Volcán Tajumulco) is a compound stratovolcano in San Marcos, Guatemala, the country's highest peak and Central America's highest volcano at about 4,203-4,220 m, with no confirmed historical eruptions.
Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠)
Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), also spelled Taklimakan, is China's largest desert and the world's second-largest shifting sand desert, about 337,000 km² in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, on the Silk Road.
Takuan Group
Takuan Group (volcano 255021) is a compound group of three andesitic-dacitic stratovolcanoes in southern Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, highest point Mount Takuan at 2,210 m; no confirmed historical eruptions, probable Holocene activity, post-caldera cones on the Laluai caldera rim.
Talagabodas
Talagabodas (Telaga Bodas), a 2,201 m stratovolcano north of Galunggung, West Java, Indonesia; no known Holocene eruptions, but a sulfur-saturated crater lake, fumaroles, and the drilled Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal system reaching 353 degrees C.
Talakaveri (ತಾಳಕಾವೇರಿ)
Talakaveri (ತಾಳಕಾವೇರಿ), also written Talacauvery, is a Hindu pilgrimage site on the Brahmagiri hills in Kodagu, Karnataka, considered the source of the river Kaveri and marked by a sacred tank and temple.
Talakmau
Talakmau (Talamau, Ophir; Gunung Talamau), a dormant andesitic-dacitic complex volcano in West Pasaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 2,911-2,913 m, highest peak in West Sumatra, no confirmed eruptions, disputed 1937 report.
Talaud Islands
Talaud Islands (Kepulauan Talaud), Indonesia's northernmost regency in North Sulawesi, capital Melonguane; three main islands Karakelang, Salibabu, Kabaruan; borders Mindanao, Philippines; created 2002; seismically active border region.
Taliabu
Taliabu (Pulau Taliabu) is an Indonesian island in North Maluku Province and the largest of the Sula Islands, covering 2,997.35 km²; its regency, separated from the Sula Islands Regency in 2012, began operating in 2013.
Talo
Talo is the name of several places, chiefly a mountain in Amhara, Ethiopia (2,623 m per GeoNames; 4,413 m per Natural Earth), an intermittent stream in Oromia, and villages in Indonesia, Mali, and Russia.
Talos Dome
Talos Dome, an ice dome on the eastern edge of the East Antarctic Plateau (72°48′S, 159°06′E, about 2315 m), is the site of the 1620 m TALDICE ice core drilled 2004–2008, covering roughly 250,000 years of climate record.
Talus cave
A talus cave is a pseudokarst cave formed in voids among blocks moved by gravity, in rockfall, scree, and landslide debris, with examples over 1 km long.
Tamiami Formation
Tamiami Formation: Pliocene marine unit of southwest Florida, also called Tamiami limestone; mixed limestone, shell beds, sand, and clay with the fossil-rich Pinecrest Sand and mid-Pliocene reef corals.
Tanaga
Tanaga Volcano (VNUM 311080), 1,806 m stratovolcano on Tanaga Island, Alaska, central peak of the Sajaka-Tanaga-Takawangha cluster; last erupted 1914; monitored by AVO; main hazard is ash to aircraft.
Tanaga Island
Tanaga Island, an uninhabited Andreanof island in the central Aleutians about 100 km west of Adak, hosts the Tanaga volcanic cluster: Sajaka, Tanaga (1,806 m, last erupted 1914), and Takawangha, sources of 2023 earthquake swarms and ash hazards to aircraft.
Tanami Desert
The Tanami Desert is an arid sandplain desert of 184,500 km² spanning the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Australia's third largest named desert, on Warlpiri country with major gold mining at Newmont's Tanami Operations.
Tandikat-Singgalang
Tandikat-Singgalang (Gunung Tandikat, Tandikai) is a twin stratovolcano complex in West Sumatra, Indonesia: Singgalang 2,810 m, Tandikat 2,439 m, last eruption 1924, with two Holocene VEI 5 eruptions about 4.4 and 4.9 ka ago.
Tanega Shima
Tanega Shima (Tanegashima, 種子島) is a Kagoshima Prefecture island south of Kyushu, Japan, where Portuguese castaways introduced firearms in 1543 and where the Tanegashima Space Center now stands; distinct from a small namesake island in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Tanete Gandangdewata
Tanete Gandangdewata (Gandang Dewata), a 3,037-3,074 m peak in the Quarles range, West Sulawesi, Indonesia; highest in the province, second highest in Sulawesi, core of Gandang Dewata National Park.
Tanimbar Islands
The Tanimbar Islands are a group of islands in the Moluccas, Maluku Province, Indonesia, with Yamdena the largest, known for endemic birds such as the Tanimbar corella.
Tanna
Tanna (Tafea Province, Vanuatu), southern island home to Mount Yasur, a 361 m volcano erupting since 1774; about 30,000 people, kastom villages, John Frum movement, Blue Cave, Whitegrass Airport.
Tannu-Ola mountains
Tannu-Ola mountains (Таңды-Уула, Тагнын нуруу) are an east-west range on the Russia-Mongolia border in Tuva, about 300 km long, highest 3,061 m, dividing the upper Yenisei basin from the Ubsu-Nur closed basin.
Tapatu Island
Tapatu Island, also called Etapaturau Island, is a small unoccupied island in the Mussau group, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, near Sagil and Boliu, at 1°30′54″S, 149°39′32″E, elevation 4 m.