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King Island (island, Australia)
King Island, Tasmania: 1,091 km2 island at the western entrance to Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria; population 1,617 (2021); known for dairy, shipwrecks, scheelite mining, and golf.
King Peninsula
King Peninsula, an ice-covered Antarctic peninsula about 100 nautical miles long and 20 wide in the Amundsen Sea sector, south of Thurston Island, forming the south side of Peacock Sound, with Cape Waite at its northwest extremity.
King William Island
King William Island (Qikiqtaq), Nunavut, Canada, lies between Boothia Peninsula and Victoria Island. Site of the 1845 Franklin expedition disaster, the Victory Point note, Amundsen's 1903-04 wintering, and the 2014 and 2016 wreck discoveries.
Kingman Reef
Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited U.S. atoll in the North Pacific near Palmyra, a National Wildlife Refuge within the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, known for the world's greatest recorded coral reef fish biomass and apex-predator abundance.
Kings Peak
Kings Peak (Tei'an-Ku-ai) is Utah's highest point, 13,528 ft in the Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County; 7th-highest U.S. state highpoint, named for geologist Clarence King.
Kinyeti
Mount Kinyeti, also called Kinyeti or Mt. Kinyetti, is a 3,187 m peak in the Imatong Mountains of Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan, near the Uganda border; it is the country's highest point and was formerly Sudan's highest peak.
Kinzers Formation
The Kinzers Formation is a Cambrian rock unit in southeastern Pennsylvania, known as a Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte preserving soft-bodied fossils, including the most diverse known Cambrian Stage 4 radiodont assemblage.
Kiritimati
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) is the world's largest atoll by land area, 388 km², in the Northern Line Islands, Kiribati; population 7,369 (2020), low-lying, drought-prone, former British and US nuclear test site, now a copra, fishing and bonefish fly-fishing economy.
Kirkwood Islands
Kirkwood Islands (Kirkwood, Islotes), a scattered group of reefs and rocks with one larger islet in central Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, at 68°22'S 69°00'W; sighted 1949 and surveyed 1950 from the FIDS ship John Biscoe, named for Cdr. Henry Kirkwood, RN.
Kirthar Mountains
Kirthar Mountains (کیرتھر), a 300 km north–south range in western Pakistan marking the Balochistan–Sindh boundary, 1,000–2,400 m high, an Eocene limestone fold-thrust belt with Kirthar National Park.
Kish Island
Kish Island (کیش, Arabic Qays) is a 90.5 km² resort and free-trade island 19 km off southern Iran in the Persian Gulf, a medieval Indian Ocean trading power later made Iran's first free trade zone in 1989.
Kissidougou forest transition
The Kissidougou forest transition is the documented increase in forest cover in Kissidougou Prefecture, Guinea, during the twentieth century, where villagers created forest islands in savanna, reversing the colonial degradation narrative.
Kita-dake
Kita-dake (北岳), 3,193 m, Japan's second-highest mountain after Fuji, in Yamanashi's Southern Alps; highest non-volcanic peak, home of the endemic Kitadakesō buttercup.
Kitsap Peninsula
The Kitsap Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Puget Lowland of western Washington, between Puget Sound and Hood Canal, named for the Suquamish war leader Kitsap.
Kitum Cave
Kitum Cave is a large salt-rich cave on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Mount Elgon National Park, western Kenya, where elephants nightly excavate salt from its walls.
Kizilkaya
Kızılkaya (Kizilkaya) names several Turkish features: a ~3,770 m summit of the Aladağlar in the Central Taurus between Niğde and Kayseri, and the Lower Pliocene Kızılkaya ignimbrite of Cappadocia, the welded tuff hosting the Derinkuyu underground city.
Kizimen
Kizimen is an isolated, conical stratovolcano in Kamchatka, Russia, at the eastern Central Kamchatka Depression. Formed about 12,000 years ago in four cycles, it erupted in 1927-28 and from 2010 to 2013 (VEI 3), with dacite-andesite magma mixing.
Klabat
Klabat (Gunung Klabat, Mount Kelang) is a dormant 1,995 m stratovolcano at the eastern tip of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, east of Manado; highest peak in northern Sulawesi, with a crater lake and no verified historical eruptions.
Klamath Mountains
Klamath Mountains: mountain range of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon, largest subrange the Siskiyous; accreted-terrane geology, serpentine soils, over 3,500 plant taxa, richest temperate conifer flora, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Kleine Scheidegg
Kleine Scheidegg, a 2,061 m mountain pass in the Bernese Oberland between the Eiger and Lauberhorn, is the junction of the Wengernalp Railway and the Jungfrau Railway to Jungfraujoch, and a hiking and ski hub.
Klettgau Formation
Klettgau Formation: Late Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) marl and dolostone unit of northern Switzerland, upper Keuper Group, six members, 30–55 m thick, source of Plateosaurus and Schleitheimia fossils.
Klondike, Yukon
Klondike, Yukon: region around the Klondike River and Dawson City, homeland of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, site of the 1896 Bonanza Creek gold discovery, the 1896-1898 Klondike Gold Rush, and the 2023 Tr'ondëk-Klondike World Heritage site.
Kluane
Kluane: region of southwest Yukon around Kluane National Park and Reserve and Kluane Lake (Lhù'ààn Mân, largest lake wholly in Yukon). Name from Tlingit 'whitefish country'; part of a UNESCO World Heritage site; 2016 glacier diversion cut the lake's main inflow.
Kluane Ice Cap
Kluane Ice Cap, or Kluane Icefields, is the large St. Elias Mountains icefield complex in southwest Yukon's Kluane National Park, covering about 80% of the park, feeding Kaskawulsh Glacier, and losing 20% of glaciated area in 50 years.
Knavesmire
Knavesmire: open common land in York, part of Micklegate Stray, home of York Racecourse since the first 1731 meeting; formerly the city's Tyburn execution site (late 14th century to 1801).
Knox Coast
Knox Coast, part of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, between Cape Hordern (100.52°E) and the Hatch Islands (109.28°E); discovered February 1840 by Charles Wilkes's US Exploring Expedition and named for Lieutenant S.R. Knox of the tender Flying Fish.
Ko Pha-ngan (เกาะพะงัน)
Ko Pha-ngan (เกาะพะงัน), also spelled Koh Phangan, is a Gulf of Thailand island in Surat Thani province, Thailand, about 122 km² and fifth-largest Thai island, famous for the monthly Full Moon Party at Haad Rin beach.
Ko Phuket
Ko Phuket (ภูเก็ต), Thailand's largest island in the Andaman Sea, about 543 km²; formerly Junk Ceylon, a tin-mining island, now a major tourism destination with 14.12 million visitors in 2025.
Ko Samui
Ko Samui (เกาะสมุย) is an island and district in Surat Thani Province in the Gulf of Thailand, and Thailand's third largest island after Phuket and Koh Chang.
Koch Island
Koch Island (Koch-Insel, 科赫島) is an uninhabited 458 km² island in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, off Baffin Island near Rowley and Bray Islands, officially named 5 November 1946.