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Ejnar Mikkelsen Range
The Ejnar Mikkelsen Range (Danish: Ejnar Mikkelsen Fjeld) is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland, and forms part of the Watkins Range. It was first climbed in 1970 by a Scottish team.
Eklund Islands
Eklund Islands, a group of mainly ice-covered islands near the southwest end of George VI Sound, Antarctica (73°16'S, 71°45'W), discovered December 1940 by Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund and named for Eklund, ornithologist of the U.S. Antarctic Service.
El Capitan
El Capitan is a 3,000-foot (914 m) granite monolith in Yosemite National Park, made of El Capitan Granite. Famous for the Nose (first ascended 1958), the 2015 Dawn Wall free climb, and Honnold's 2017 free solo.
El Djouf
El Djouf, also written El Juf (Arabic for "belly"), is a hyper-arid dune and rock-salt desert in northeastern Mauritania and northwestern Mali, on the Sahara's western edge.
El Mela
El Mela (Cerro El Mela) is a mountain in the Sierra de Velasco, La Rioja Province, Argentina, usually identified as the range's highest summit at 4,160 m.
El Peñón de Guatapé
El Peñón de Guatapé, also called La Piedra del Peñol, is a 220-meter granite monolith in Antioquia, Colombia, with 740 concrete steps in a fissure, first climbed in 1954, overlooking the 1970s Peñol-Guatapé reservoir.
El Teleno
El Teleno (Picu Talenu), 2183-2188 m, is the highest peak of the Montes de León and the Macizo Galaico-Leonés in southwest León, Spain, an Ordovician quartzite mountain with periglacial block fields and extensive Roman gold mining remains.
Elba
Elba (Isola d'Elba), largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, 223.5 km2, 10 km off Tuscany; historic iron mines (60 million tons), Napoleon's 1814-15 exile, tourism economy.
Elburz Mountains
Elburz (Alborz) Mountains, northern Iran range separating the Caspian lowlands from the Iranian plateau; over 500 km long, highest peak Mount Damavand (~5,610-5,678 m), a dormant volcano with fumaroles.
Elephant Island
Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: ice-covered island 1,255 km from South Georgia where 22 of Shackleton's Endurance crew survived four months in 1916 until rescue by the Chilean tug Yelcho.
Elephanta Caves
Elephanta Caves (Gharapuri): rock-cut Hindu Shaiva cave temples on Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbour, carved mid-5th to 6th centuries CE, famed for the 7-metre Sadashiva Trimurti and fifteen reliefs; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Eleuthera
Eleuthera, a 160-km-long thin Bahamian island 58 miles east of Nassau, settled in 1648 by the Eleutheran Adventurers, once a pineapple exporter, now a tourism destination with Harbour Island nearby.
Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellef Ringnes Island (also spelled Ellef Ringnes) is an uninhabited 11,295 km2 island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, the westernmost Sverdrup Island, discovered in 1901 by Isachsen and Hassel and named for Norwegian brewer Ellef Ringnes.
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada's northernmost Arctic island, 196,236 km², tenth largest island in the world, home to Cape Columbia, Barbeau Peak, Quttinirpaaq National Park, and rapidly declining Arctic ice shelves.
Ellora Caves
Ellora Caves (Verul): 34 rock-cut Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monasteries and temples over 2 km of basalt cliff near Aurangabad, Maharashtra; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, famed for the monolithic top-down Kailasa temple (Cave 16).
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are a mountain range in West Antarctica, inland from the Ronne Ice Shelf, that contain Antarctica's highest peak, Mount Vinson at 4,892 m.
Elmenteita Badlands
Elmenteita Badlands (Ututu), a Holocene pyroclastic cone and basalt lava field in the Kenya Rift between Lake Elmenteita and Eburru volcano; highest cone 2,126 m, volcano number 222071, no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Emerald Coast
Emerald Coast: unofficial name for about 100 miles of northwest Florida Panhandle Gulf coastline across Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay counties, named in 1983 for its emerald-green water and white quartz sand.
Emma Island
Emma Island (Emma, Ile) is a small Antarctic island east of Cape Anna in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, at 64°36'S 62°18'W. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Emma de Gerlache de Gomery, mother of commander Adrien de Gerlache.
Enchanted Rock
Enchanted Rock is a pink granite exfoliation dome in the Texas Hill Country, the centerpiece of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area near Fredericksburg; a billion-year-old batholith, National Natural Landmark, and one of Texas's most visited parks.
Enderby Land
Enderby Land: Antarctic coastal land mass, East Antarctica, 45°E-55°E; discovered February 1831 by John Biscoe in the Tula, named for Enderby Bros; westernmost Australian Antarctic Territory, Napier Complex geology.
Endorheic basin
Endorheic basin (closed or terminal basin): a drainage basin with no surface outlet, where water leaves only by evaporation or seepage. Covers ~15.4% of global land; examples include Lake Eyre, Harney, and Tarim basins; saline terminal lakes; declining water storage since 2002.
Enewetak Atoll
Enewetak Atoll (Eniwetok), a Marshall Islands coral atoll, hosted 43 US nuclear tests (1948–1958, 31.7 MT) including Ivy Mike; cleanup created Runit Dome on Runit Island, and resettlement began in 1980.
Englacial meltwater conduit
An englacial meltwater conduit is a horizontal or gently inclined tunnel carrying meltwater through a glacier, linking surface melt to the subglacial drainage network and feeding basal sliding.
England Peak
England Peak, Antarctica: a 2,150 m (7,054 ft) mountain, highest point of the Dufek Massif and Pensacola Mountains in Queen Elizabeth Land, named for USGS geologist Anthony W. England.
Eorsa Island
Eorsa is a small uninhabited island in Loch na Keal off the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, near Ulva and Inch Kenneth, at 56.46667 N, 6.08333 W.
Épi
Épi (Epi) is an island in Shefa Province, Vanuatu, 100 km north of Port Vila, with over 7,000 residents, two west-coast airstrips, dugongs at Lamen Bay, and the active East Epi submarine volcano offshore.
Epirus
Epirus (Ήπειρος, Ípeiros): geographical and historical region of southeastern Europe spanning northwestern Greece and southern Albania, from the Ceraunian mountains to the Ambracian Gulf; also a Greek administrative region of 9,203 km² with capital Ioannina.
Equilibrium line altitude
The equilibrium line altitude (ELA) is the elevation on a glacier where accumulation of snow exactly balances ablation over a year, dividing accumulation and ablation areas.
Erg Chech
Erg Chech (عرق الشاش), a giant Saharan sand sea in southwestern Algeria extending into Mali and Mauritania, with longitudinal dunes up to 500 km long, area about 319,000 km², and the source of the Erg Chech 002 meteorite.