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Chapada do Araripe
The Chapada do Araripe is a red sandstone plateau in Brazil, spanning Ceará, Pernambuco, and Piauí. It is known for hosting major Lower Cretaceous fossil deposits.
Chappal Waddi
Chappal Waddi, or Gangirwal, is a 2,419-meter mountain located on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State, Nigeria, and it is the highest point in the nation.
Charcot Island
Charcot Island (Île Charcot) is a roughly circular ice-covered Antarctic island near 70°S 75°W, discovered by Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1910, proved an island by Wilkins in 1929, and cut off from the Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2009.
Charleston Peak
Charleston Peak (Mount Charleston, Southern Paiute Nuvagantu), 11,916-11,918 ft summit of the Spring Mountains, Nevada; highest point in southern Nevada, sky-island bristlecone pine wilderness near Las Vegas.
Charlton Island
Charlton Island (Sivukutaitiarruvik) is an uninhabited island in James Bay, Nunavut, Canada, near the Rupert River mouth. Thomas James wintered there in 1631-32; the Hudson's Bay Company ran a fur depot there 1680-1686 and 1903-1931. Not the Antarctic Charlton Island in Vincennes Bay.
Chatham Island
Chatham Island (Rēkohu, Wharekauri) is the largest island of New Zealand's Chatham Islands, 800 km east of the South Island; homeland of the Moriori, invaded in 1835, annexed 1842.
Chatham Islands
The Chatham Islands (Rēkohu, Wharekauri) are a New Zealand archipelago about 800 km east of the mainland, inhabited by Moriori and Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri descendants, with fishing, farming and tourism economies.
Chatsquot Mtn.
Chatsquot Mountain is a 2,365 m ultra-prominent peak (1,981 m prominence) in the Kitimat Ranges, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, northwest of Kimsquit Lake; official name adopted 1947, host of a mineralized layered mafic intrusion.
Chauvet Cave
The Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, is a Paleolithic cave in the Ardèche region of southern France, rediscovered in 1994 after being sealed for roughly 20,000 years.
Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Gorge is Britain's largest karst gorge, a 2 km limestone gorge up to 120 m deep in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, cut by Ice Age meltwater rivers, not collapse, and home to Gough's Cave and Cheddar Man.
Cheesman Island
Cheesman Island names two small islands: one in Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada (formerly Cheesman Peninsula, near Kinoosao, 356 m elevation), and a rocky Antarctic island off Charcot Island named for RCAF pilot Silas Alward Cheesman.
Chemin des Dames
Chemin des Dames: a ~30 km ridge road in the Aisne, France, between the Aisne and Ailette valleys; site of the failed Nivelle offensive of 16 April 1917, the 1917 French mutinies, the Malmaison victory, and the German May 1918 breakthrough.
Chersky Range
Chersky Range (Хребет Черского), largest mountain system of North Asia in northeastern Siberia between the Yana and Indigirka rivers; 1,500 km long, Peak Pobeda 3,003 m, named for geologist Jan Czerski.
Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach is a 28-kilometer shingle barrier beach in Dorset, England, running from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and sheltering the shallow Fleet Lagoon.
Chesterfield Islands
Chesterfield Islands (Îles Chesterfield): uninhabited coral islets on one of the world's largest atolls in the Coral Sea, ~500 km northwest of New Caledonia; French since 1876, named after the 1793 whaler Chesterfield; major green turtle and seabird nesting site, protected within the Natural Park of the Coral Sea.
Chichagof Island
Chichagof Island (Tlingit: Shee Kaax) is a mostly roadless island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, one of the ABC islands, known for dense brown bear populations and its largest community, Hoonah.
Chichijima (父島)
Chichijima (父島) is the largest inhabited island of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, about 1,000 km south of Tokyo, and serves as the seat of Ogasawara Village, Tokyo.
Chiginagak
Mount Chiginagak, glaciated stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula, 600 km southwest of Anchorage; brief ash eruptions in 1971 and 1998; 2005 acid crater lake drainage acidified Mother Goose Lake, killing aquatic life.
Chihuahuan Desert
The Chihuahuan Desert is North America's largest desert, covering some 250,000 square miles on the Mexican Central Plateau and extending into Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Chilean Central Valley
Chilean Central Valley (Valle Central, Depresión Intermedia): structural basin between Chile's Coastal Range and Andes, ~70 km wide, ~1,000 km from Santiago to Puerto Montt; fertile volcanic soils, Mediterranean climate, Chile's agricultural and population heartland.
Chiliques
Chiliques (Volcán Chiliques) is a 5,778 m andesitic stratovolcano in northern Chile south of Laguna Lejía, with a 500 m summit crater, no known Holocene eruptions, and a 2002 ASTER thermal anomaly.
Chilkoot Pass
Chilkoot Pass is a Coast Mountains pass on the Alaska-British Columbia border, crossed by the 33-mile Chilkoot Trail from Dyea to Bennett. A Tlingit trade route and the main Klondike Gold Rush route, now a recreation trail with the border closed to crossing.
Chiloé Island
Chiloé Island (Isla Grande de Chiloé), largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago in southern Chile's Los Lagos Region: 9,080 km², about 100,000 inhabitants, Spanish colonial wooden churches, potato heritage, and salmon farming.
Chimborazo
Chimborazo, also known as Volcán Chimborazo, is a glaciated volcano in central Ecuador whose summit, at 6,268 m, is the point on Earth's surface farthest from the Earth's center.
Chin Hills
Chin Hills, mountainous hill ranges of north-western Myanmar (Chin State), part of the Indo-Burman Ranges; highest point Mount Victoria 3,053 m; warm temperate rainforest, White-browed Nuthatch, Vulnerable ecosystem.
Chios (Χίος)
Chios (Χίος) is a Greek North Aegean island, 842 km², fifth largest in Greece, 3.5 nautical miles from Turkey, famed as the only source of cultivated mastic, with medieval mastic villages, Nea Moni, and a history of Genoese and Ottoman rule.
Chipping Norton Limestone
Chipping Norton Limestone Formation (CNL), Bathonian Middle Jurassic oolitic limestone, basal unit of the Great Oolite Group in north Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, 0 to 12 m thick, named by Hudleston in 1878.
Chiricahua Mountains
Chiricahua Mountains: a sky island range in southeastern Arizona's Coronado National Forest, rising to Chiricahua Peak at 9,795 ft, formed around the 27-million-year-old Turkey Creek Caldera and home to Chiricahua National Monument.
Chiricahua Peak
Chiricahua Peak, Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains high point in Cochise County, Coronado National Forest; 9,775.9 ft elevation, 5,156 ft prominence, ultra-prominent summit in the Chiricahua Wilderness.
Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu (8,188 m, sometimes 8,201 m), the "Goddess of Turquoise," is the sixth-highest mountain, on the Nepal–Tibet border 20 km west of Everest. First climbed 1954 without oxygen; the safest, most-climbed 8,000er after Everest via its northwest ridge.