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Vilyuchinsky
Vilyuchinsky (Vilyuchik) is a 2,173 m Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano south of Avachinsky Bay, Kamchatka, Russia; last erupted about 8050 BCE (VEI 2), now eroded by rain-triggered landslides, within the Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage site.
Vindhya Range
The Vindhya Range, also called the Vindhyachal or Vindhyas, is a chain of low hills in central India, traditionally the divide between North India and the Deccan plateau.
Vinicunca
Vinicunca, also called Rainbow Mountain or Montaña de Siete Colores, is a mineral-striped peak in Peru's Vilcanota range near Cusco, viewpoint about 5,036 m, colors from iron oxide, chlorite, and sulfur sediments, a mass tourism site since 2015 managed by local communities.
Vinson Massif
Vinson Massif, in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, holds Antarctica's highest summit, Mount Vinson, 4,892 m by 2004 GPS. Named for Carl Vinson; first climbed 1966-67 by Nicholas Clinch's American expedition; a Seven Summits peak.
Vîrful lui Pătru
Vîrful lui Pătru (Vârful lui Pătru), 2,130 m peak in Romania's Șureanu Mountains, highest of the range and Alba County; its Șaua Ocolu saddle holds a Roman marching camp of the Dacian Wars, part of the UNESCO Limes Dacicus.
Virgin Gorda
Virgin Gorda, the "Fat Virgin" named by Columbus, is an island in the British Virgin Islands known for The Baths granite boulder national park, Savannah Bay, North Sound resorts, and Necker Island offshore.
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands: a Caribbean archipelago of about 60 islands east of Puerto Rico, split between the U.S. Virgin Islands (bought from Denmark for $25 million in 1917) and the British Virgin Islands.
Vis (island)
Vis is Croatia's farthest inhabited island, 90.3 km², site of the Greek colony Issa founded 397 BC, Tito's 1944 headquarters, and a Yugoslav military zone closed to foreigners until 1989.
Visayas
Visayas (Kabisayaan) is the central island group of the Philippines, divided into Western Visayas, Negros Island Region, Central Visayas, and Eastern Visayas, with 2024 populations and Central Visayas the fastest-growing regional economy in 2024.
Viti Levu
Viti Levu is Fiji's largest island (10,429 km²), home to the capital Suva and most of the population; site of the Bourewa Lapita settlement, the oldest known in Fiji.
Vitosha (Витоша)
Vitosha (Витоша) is a mountain in western Bulgaria rising from the southern edge of Sofia to 2,290 m at Cherni Vrah, with Bulgaria's first national park.
Vize Islands
Vize Islands (Wiese Islands, Vize ostrova) are a small Antarctic island group at 65°40'S 65°37'W, 4.6 km south of the Karelin Islands off Renaud Island's east side in the Biscoe Islands, first charted accurately by Argentina in 1957.
Volcan Domuyo
Volcán Domuyo (Cerro Domuyo), a Pleistocene dacitic dome complex in northern Neuquén, Argentina; at 4,709 m the highest peak in Patagonia, with glaciers, geysers, a ~1 GW geothermal field, and no known Holocene eruptions.
Volcan San Pedro
Volcan San Pedro: chiefly a 6,145 m historically active Chilean Andes stratovolcano (San Pedro-San Pablo twin, Antofagasta); also a 3,020 m Lake Atitlan volcano in Guatemala and a 3,621 m Maule, Chile volcano.
Volga Upland
Volga Upland (Приволжская возвышенность), also Volga Hills or Volga Plateau: an 800 km long, 500 km wide upland on the Volga's right bank in European Russia, rising to 351 m, forest-steppe to dry-steppe.
Vortex Spring
Vortex Spring is a private dive resort in Ponce de Leon, Florida, formerly Blue Spring, with 68°F water, a 50-ft basin, and a cave gated at 115 ft requiring full cave certification.
Vosges
The Vosges are a forested low mountain range in eastern France, highest at the Grand Ballon (1,424 m), with sandstone north and crystalline south, over 4,000 km of trails, spa towns, ski resorts, and a contested capercaillie reintroduction.
Vostok Island (остров Восток)
Vostok Island (остров Восток), also called Vostok, is an uninhabited 0.2 km2 low coral island in the southern Line Islands, Kiribati, named in 1820 by Bellingshausen after his sloop Vostok; Pisonia forest, frigatebird sanctuary, within SLIMPA.
Vozrozhdeniya Island
Vozrozhdeniya Island (Остров Возрождения), or Rebirth Island, was an Aral Sea island housing the Soviet Aralsk-7 bioweapons test site; it joined the mainland in 2001 after the sea dried up, and over 12 tons of anthrax were later removed.
Vsevidof
Mount Vsevidof is a symmetrical Holocene stratovolcano on Umnak Island in Alaska's Aleutian arc, 2,160 m high, with an ice-filled 1.2 km summit crater; last confirmed eruption 1878, unmonitored, moderate threat.
Vychegda Lowland
Vychegda Lowland (Вычегда), lowland plain in Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast, NE European Russia, drained by the 1,130 km Vychegda River, largest right tributary of the Severnaya Dvina; MIS 6 glaciation and proglacial lake, but no last-glaciation ice or lakes reached the valley.
Wadi (وادي)
Wadi (وادي), Arabic for a dry valley or riverbed, is the Middle Eastern and North African term for an ephemeral stream channel that flows after rain, recharges alluvial aquifers through its bed, and carries destructive flash floods.
Wadi N'f'd
Wadi N'f'd (Wadi Nafed or Nefed) is a dry valley in the pre-desert of Tripolitania, Libya, tributary to the Wadi Sofeggin, with Romano-Libyan farms, Gasr Isawi, the Msletten tombs, and UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey monuments Nf 30-31, 37-39.
Waggoner Ranch
Waggoner Ranch (W.T. Waggoner Estate, Three D Ranch), founded 1849 by Dan Waggoner in North Texas; about 535,000 acres across six counties, largest US ranch under one fence, known for Hereford cattle, quarter horse Poco Bueno, oil, and its 2016 $725 million sale to Stan Kroenke.
Wahiba Sands
The Wahiba Sands, also called the Sharqiya Sands or Ramlat al-Wahiba, is an isolated sand sea of roughly 12,000 km² in northeastern Oman, south of the Eastern Hajar Mountains.
Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island (Te Motu-arai-roa), reached by ferry from Auckland, is the most populated island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf, home to about 9,500 people and known for vineyards.
Waitomo Glowworm Caves
Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Waikato, New Zealand (Waitomo, 'water entering a hole'); limestone show caves lit by Arachnocampa luminosa fungus-gnat larvae; discovered 1887 by Tāne Tinorau and Fred Mace; ~400,000–450,000 visitors yearly; owned by Ruapuha Uekaha Hapū Trust and DOC.
Waitomo karst region
The Waitomo karst region is a limestone landscape in the King Country of New Zealand's North Island, dissolved by rainfall into sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage.
Wake Island
Wake Island is a U.S. Pacific atoll of three coral islets (Wake, Peale, Wilkes) with no fresh water or native population, defended in December 1941, surrendered December 23, and now a military airfield.
Wakhan
Wakhan (Wakhan Corridor) is a high-mountain region and panhandle of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, about 350 km long, reaching China's Xinjiang; created 1873–1895 as a Russo-British buffer, inhabited by Wakhi and Kyrgyz, with a new road to China opened in 2026.