Landforms and terrestrial features

HP Parnaqussuit Qavaat

Parnaqussuit Qavaat, also Paarnaqussuit Qaavat or Paornaqussuit Qâvat, is a mountain in Qeqqata, Greenland. Its high point rises about 1,843 m with 1,803 m prominence, Greenland's #11 ultra.

HP Renland

HP Renland, the Renland high point, is the 2,200 m highest summit of Greenland's Renland peninsula, on the northern shores of the Scoresbysund fjord system.

HP Rooseveltsfjeld or Johannes V. Jensen Land

Johannes V. Jensen Land, also called HP Rooseveltsfjeld after its 1,920 m high point in Roosevelt Fjelde, is the northern third of Peary Land, North Greenland: a 190 km alpine fold-belt peninsula with the world's northernmost dwellings, named by the 1947–1950 Danish Pearyland Expedition.

HP Sibuyan Island

HP Sibuyan Island is Mount Guiting-Guiting (G2), the 2,058 m ultra-prominent high point of Sibuyan Island, Romblon, Philippines, core of Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park (proclaimed 1996) and one of the country's hardest 9/9 climbs.

HP Sierra la Madera

Sierra la Madera, labeled HP Sierra la Madera on Cuatrociénegas-area maps, names two Mexican ranges: a 1,985 m granitic Sonora pluton in the Magdalena metamorphic core complex, and a Coahuila anticlinal limestone sierra.

HP Storo

HP Storo (Storo High Point, Kaasarip Nasaa High Point) is the 1,765-1,770 m ultra-prominent summit of Storo island in Scoresby Sound, Sermersooq, eastern Greenland; key col at sea level, isolation about 12.9 km.

HP Traill

HP Traill (Traill HP) is the 1884 m high point of Traill Ø, an island in Northeast Greenland National Park at about 72°30'N 24°W, known for its Mesozoic-Tertiary geology and the Karupelv Valley research site.

HP Yuzhno Muiskyy Khrebet

Yuzhno Muiskyy Khrebet, also recorded as Yuzhno-Muyskiy Khrebet, is a mountain range in Transbaikalia, Russia, mostly in Buryatia. Its highest summit, Muisky Giant, rises to 3,067 m.

Huahine

Huahine, formerly Matairea, is a Leeward Society Island of French Polynesia about 175 km northwest of Tahiti, made of Huahine Nui and Huahine Iti joined by a bridge, with the Maeva marae complex, the Fa'ahia early-settlement site, and about 6,300 inhabitants.

Huang Guan Shan

Huang Guan Shan (皇冠山), The Crown or Crown Peak, is a 7,295 m Karakoram peak in Xinjiang, China, highest of the Yengisogat subrange about 40 km northwest of K2, first climbed July 22, 1993 by a 14-member Japanese Tokai Alpine Club expedition.

Huanggang Shan

Huanggang Shan (黄岗山, Mount Huanggang) is the highest peak of the Wuyi Mountains on the Fujian-Jiangxi border, 2,160.8 m, nicknamed the roof of East China.

Huanggangliang

Huanggangliang (黄岗梁), also called Anqiushan or the golden ridge, is a 27-peak massif at the southern end of the Greater Khingan in Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia; its main peak, 2,029 m, is the range's highest point.

Huangshan (黄山)

Huangshan (黄山, Yellow Mountain), also Mount Huangshan, is a granite mountain range in Anhui, China, a 1990 UNESCO World Heritage Site with 77 peaks over 1,000 m, Lianhua Peak at 1,864 m, renamed from Yishan in 747, and famed for the Shanshui painting school.

Huanquihue Group

Huanquihue Group (Cerro Huanquihué), a NNE-SSW chain of Pleistocene stratovolcanoes in Neuquén, Argentina, near the Chilean border south of Lanín; last eruption about 1750 CE at Achín-Niellu, whose lava flow reached Lago Epulafquen.

Huatou Jian

Huatou Jian (铧头尖) is an ultra-prominent mountain peak, about 4,750 to 4,791 meters high, standing in the Xiaoxiang Range of the Daliang Mountains in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, southwestern China.

Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley, region of eastern New York along the 507-km Hudson River, spanning seven to twelve counties from the Capital Region to Westchester; defined by glacial geology, Lake Albany clays, estuary restoration, and a mixed urban-rural economy.

Hugo Island

Hugo Island, also called Victor Hugo Island (Russian) or Isla Víctor Hugo (Spanish, Chilean), is an ice-covered Antarctic island 1 mi long at 64°57'S, 65°45'W off the west Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot for Victor Hugo.

Huíla Plateau

Huíla Plateau (Planalto da Huíla), southwestern Angolan highland rising to about 2,300 m above arid coastal plains; Lubango sits on it; western escarpment over 300 km long; drier southwestern edge of the miombo ecoregion.

Huila, Nevado del

Nevado del Huila is Colombia's highest active volcano (5,364 m), a stratovolcano-dome complex in Cauca, Huila, and Tolima. Its 2007–2010 eruptions built a summit lava dome and produced lahars larger than the 1985 Armero flow; it is now at yellow alert under SGC monitoring.

Human use of caves

Human use of caves is the practice of using natural underground chambers for shelter, ritual, burial, and art, from the Middle Paleolithic to cave hotels in Cappadocia today.

Humphreys Peak

Humphreys Peak, the summit of the San Francisco Peaks, is the highest point in Arizona at about 12,633 feet, lying in the Kachina Peaks Wilderness 11 miles north of Flagstaff.

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Hungry Steppe

The Hungry Steppe, or Mirzachul, is a semi-desert plain in Central Asia between the Syr Darya and the Nurata range, irrigated for cotton since the late 19th century.

Hunza Valley

Hunza Valley (Urdu: ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan, along the Hunza River in the Karakoram, known for its distinct culture and glacierized basin.

Hvar

Hvar is a 297.38 km² island in central Dalmatia, Croatia, the country's longest island at 67.5 km. Known for the Greek colony Pharos, the UNESCO Stari Grad Plain, lavender, and tourism dating to 1868.

Hydra (Ύδρα) (island)

Hydra (Ύδρα), a car-free Greek island in the Argo-Saronic Gulf about 69 km from Piraeus, ~50 km², ~2,070 residents (2021); leading naval power of the 1821 Greek War of Independence with 186 ships.

Hydrogeology and water management of the Yucatán aquifer

The hydrogeology and water management of the Yucatán aquifer, also called the Maya aquifer, cover the karst groundwater system supplying over 5 million people in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Hydrographers Range

Hydrographers Range: forested andesitic volcanic massif in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, extending from Mount Lamington's eastern margin to the coast; 1,915 m, Pleistocene stratovolcano, no confirmed Holocene eruptions.

Ibapah Peak

Ibapah Peak is the 12,087-foot highest summit of Utah's Deep Creek Range and Juab County, an ultra-prominent peak with 5,247 ft of prominence, ranked No. 49 of 57 lower-48 ultras, climbed by a Class 2 Granite Creek route.

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (Iberia) is southwestern Europe's peninsula, holding Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar. Emerged part of the Iberian Plate welded to Europe at the Pyrenees; a Pleistocene refugium with about 50% of European biodiversity and severe wildfire and drought exposure.