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Durdle Door
Durdle Door is a natural limestone sea arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth, Dorset, cut through near-vertical Portland Stone; privately owned by the Welds' Lulworth Estate and named from Old English 'thirl', to pierce.
Dutch Caribbean
Dutch Caribbean: the six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), reorganized on 10 October 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles dissolved into three constituent countries and three Dutch special municipalities.
Dzenzursky
Dzenzursky (Dzenzur, Igorevsky Volcano), eroded Pleistocene compound stratovolcano, 2,285 m, Eastern Kamchatka, Russia; no confirmed historical eruptions, only fumarolic and hydrothermal activity; Volcano Number 300110.
Dzhugdzhur Mountains
Dzhugdzhur Mountains (Джугджур), a 700–900 km mountain system in Khabarovsk Krai on the northwest Sea of Okhotsk coast; highest point Mount Topko 1,906 m; Arctic-Pacific watershed with Dzhugdzhursky reserve.
Dzungaria
Dzungaria, also spelled Zungharia and called the Junggar Basin, is a vast semi-arid basin region in northern Xinjiang, China, ringed by the Altai and Tian Shan mountains.
Eadie Island
Eadie Island (イーディー島), also Ostrov Edi or Isla Eadie, is a roughly 2 km island in the South Shetland Islands between Aspland and O'Brien Islands, named in 1937 by Lt. L. C. Hill after the Melbourne Harbour Trust dockyard manager.
Eagle Island
Eagle Island, Antarctica: island in Prince Gustav Channel off Trinity Peninsula, 5 by 4 miles, rising to 560 m; named in 1949 after the FIDS ship Eagle; also Isla Aguila (Chile).
Eastern Coastal Australia
Eastern Coastal Australia (FEOW ecoregion 807) is a temperate coastal rivers ecoregion spanning Halifax Bay to Wilsons Promontory, 589,000 km2, home to the endemic Australian lungfish and non-parasitic lamprey Mordacia praecox.
Eastern Desert
Eastern Desert, also called the Arabian Desert, is Egypt's arid region between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, about 220,000-225,000 km². Hyperarid since c. 2500 BC, rich in gold and emeralds, crossed by ancient trade routes to Red Sea ports.
Eastern Ghats
The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous hill chain along India's east coast across Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Highest peak Mahendragiri (1,501 m); a Proterozoic belt tied to Columbia, Rodinia and Gondwana, broken by east-flowing rivers, with tribal podu farming and bauxite mining pressure.
Eastern Sayan Mountains
Eastern Sayan Mountains, part of the Sayan system of southern Siberia along the Russia–Mongolia border; highest peak Mönkh Saridag (Munku-Sardyk), 3,491 m. Paleozoic thrust-nappe foundation, Cenozoic rejuvenated uplift, Jom-Bolok volcanism.
Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands
Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands (Manica Highlands): FEOW freshwater ecoregion 563, a 450 km mountain belt on Zimbabwe's Mozambique border with Nyanga and Chimanimani ranges, Mount Inyangi 2,592 m, 900-3,000 mm rain, ~150 endemic plants and cryptic stream fish diversity.
Ebelsberg Formation
The Ebelsberg Formation is a formation of organic-rich marine mudrocks in Austria, deposited in the late Oligocene to early Miocene and known for its exceptionally preserved fossils.
Eburru, Ol Doinyo
Ol Doinyo Eburru (Eburru) is a Quaternary peralkaline volcanic complex, 2,856 m, in the central Kenyan Rift northwest of Lake Naivasha, with fumarolic activity, no confirmed Holocene eruptions, and a geothermal field with a 2.4 MWe plant.
Ecology of cenotes and anchialine pools
The ecology of cenotes and anchialine pools is organized around a halocline, a sharp boundary where seawater underlies freshwater, trapping organic matter and supporting specialized subterranean fauna.
Edgell Island
Edgell Island is a Nunavut island off Baffin Island's southeastern tip in Davis Strait, near the Frobisher Bay entrance; 61°50′N 65°W, elevation 148 m, official Canadian name since 1946, distinct from a British Columbia namesake.
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (Edge Island), uninhabited island of Svalbard, Norway; third largest at 5,073 km², between Storfjorden and Freemansundet, named for whaler Thomas Edge, glacier-covered, in Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973.
Edgeoyjokulen
Edgeoyjokulen (Edgeøyjøkulen) is a 1,365 km² ice cap on Edgeøya, Svalbard, at about 77°40′N 23°24′E; one of Svalbard's largest ice caps, nearly three times the area of mainland Norway's Jostedalsbreen.
Édouard-Alfred Martel
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859–1938), French lawyer and geographer, founder of modern speleology; explored Padirac (1889), Gaping Gill, founded the Société de spéléologie, and secured the 1902 Martel law on groundwater pollution.
Edwards Plateau
The Edwards Plateau is a broad limestone upland in central Texas whose eroded eastern margin forms the Texas Hill Country, underlain by Cretaceous limestone and the Edwards Aquifer.
Éfaté Island
Éfaté (Efate, Vaté) is Vanuatu's most populated island, third largest at about 900 km², in Shefa Province. It hosts the capital Port Vila, the Teouma Lapita cemetery (~3000 BP), and about 80% of national economic activity.
Egg Island (landform)
Egg Island (landform): name shared by many small islands worldwide, e.g. Antarctic Trinity Peninsula, a dozen in Alaska (Russian Ostrov Yaichnoy, 1792), plus examples in Canada, the Bahamas, and California, named for eggs, shape, or grouped features.
Egg Island (undersea feature)
Egg Island, also called Isla Huevo (Chile) or Isla Santa Isabel (Argentina), is a small Antarctic island on the north side of Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula, at 63°41'S 57°42'W, sighted in 1902-03 and named in 1949 with Tail, Eagle, and Beak Islands.
Eglinton Island
Eglinton Island, uninhabited island in the Northwest Territories Canadian Arctic Archipelago at 75°45'N 118°50'W, west of Melville Island; charted in 1853 by M'Clintock and Mecham during Franklin searches.
Eielson Peninsula
Eielson Peninsula (Eielson, península) is a rugged, mainly snow-covered peninsula, about 20 mi long, between Smith Inlet and Lehrke Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, named for pilot Carl Ben Eielson of Wilkins' 1928 Antarctic flights.
Eiger
The Eiger, or Mount Eiger, is a 3,967-meter mountain in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, known for its roughly 1,800-meter north face, first climbed in 1938.
Eilean Àird
Eilean Àird (Eilean Aird) is a small island in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, near Jura, at 55.96904 N, 5.91269 W, elevation 6 m, grid NR559820, near Lagg, Tarbert, and Loch Tarbert.
Eilean Cubhraidh
Eilean Cubhraidh (Eilean Cùbhraidh) is a small islet on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles, Scotland, near Sgàparaid and Lochganvich, at 58.14235°N, 6.6585°W, elevation 53 m; the Gaelic name combines eilean (island) with cubhraidh (scented).
Eilean Donan
Eilean Donan ("Island of Donan") is a Scottish castle on a tidal island where Lochs Long, Duich, and Alsh meet. Ruined in 1719 after a Spanish Jacobite garrison, it was rebuilt 1912–1932 by John MacRae-Gilstrap and opened to the public in 1955.
Eisriesenwelt
Eisriesenwelt (World of the Ice Giants) is the world's largest ice cave, a 42-km limestone cave system at Werfen, Austria, near Salzburg, discovered in 1879, with about 1 km of ice open on guided tours.