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Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are the northern Lesser Antilles chain from the Virgin Islands to St Lucia, named for shelter from northeast trade winds; includes Antigua, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, and the former British Federal Colony (1871).
Lefkada (Λευκάδα)
Lefkesida (Λευκά시다), also known as Lefkes, is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea between Corfu and Kefalonia, connected to the mainland by a 50-meter floating bridge.
Leith Hill
Leith Hill is a hill in Surrey, England, and at 294 m (965 ft) the highest point in the county, crowned by the 18th-century Leith Hill Tower.
Leizhou Peninsula
Leizhou Peninsula (雷州半岛), China's third-largest peninsula at mainland China's southern tip in Guangdong, lies between the South China Sea and Beibu Gulf, separated from Hainan by the Qiongzhou Strait; volcanic basalt terrain, tropical monsoon climate, Zhanjiang port.
Lemaire Island
Lemaire Island (Le Maire, isla; Lemaire, Isla) is an Antarctic island 4.5 mi long off the west coast of Graham Land, forming the north side of Paradise Harbour; discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-99 and named for Charles Lemaire.
Lengai, Ol Doinyo
Ol Doinyo Lengai (Oldoinyo Lengai), the Maasai 'Mountain of God', is Tanzania's active East African Rift stratovolcano, the only volcano on Earth erupting natrocarbonatite lava at 495–590 °C, with eruptions continuing since April 2017.
Lesbos (Λέσβος)
Lesbos (Λέσβος, Lesvos), third-largest Greek island off Asia Minor with capital Mytilene: Petrified Forest of Sigri, Sappho's birthplace, olive and ouzo economy, 2015 refugee gateway.
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are an island arc in the Caribbean Sea, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Grenada and formed by subduction of the Atlantic plate.
Lesser Khingan
Lesser Khingan (Xiao Hinggan, 小兴安岭), mountain range in north central Heilongjiang, China, separating the Heilongjiang and Songhua rivers; 500–1000 m average altitude, 72.6% forest cover, humid monsoon climate, rich wildlife.
Lesser Sunda Islands
The Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara) are an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia, running from Bali to Timor. Key facts: volcanic Sunda-Banda arc, area 73,144 sq km, Wallacean biodiversity, Komodo National Park.
Level Mountain
Level Mountain is a large Miocene-to-Holocene volcanic complex in the Stikine volcanic belt, Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, NW British Columbia: 1,800 km2, 860 km3 stratovolcano on a basaltic shield, summit Meszah Peak 2,164 m, eruptive history from about 6.5 Ma, Holocene activity uncertain, Low threat.
Leviathan Cave
Leviathan Cave (Grotte de Leviathan) is Kenya's Chyulu Hills lava tube, Africa's longest at about 12.5 km and 470 m deep, discovered 1975 by Jim Simons; a shorter Nevada namesake cave also exists.
Leyte
Leyte is the largest province of Eastern Visayas in the Philippines, occupying most of the island of the same name, where Magellan landed in 1521.
Lhotse (ལྷོ་རྩེ)
Lhotse (ལྷོ་རྩེ, "South Peak") is the world's fourth-highest mountain at 8,516 m in Nepal's Khumbu Himal, linked to Everest by the South Col with only 610 m prominence; first climbed 18 May 1956 by Swiss climbers Luchsinger and Reiss.
Liancourt Rocks
Liancourt Rocks, also Dokdo (Korean) and Takeshima (Japanese), are islets in the Sea of Japan between Korea and Japan, named after the 1849 French whaling ship Le Liancourt; Korea controls them and Japan disputes sovereignty.
Liaodong Peninsula
The Liaodong Peninsula (辽东半岛) is one of China's three major peninsulas, in southern Liaoning Province, home to the ports of Dalian and Lushun and ceded briefly to Japan in 1895.
Liard Island
Liard Island (Isla Liard) is a mountainous Antarctic island, 24 km long and 11 km wide, rising to 1,000 m in north-central Hanusse Bay off Graham Land's west coast, discovered and named by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-10.
Liberty Island
Liberty Island, formerly Bedloe's Island, is a 15-acre island in New York Harbor, part of New York State, home to the Statue of Liberty and Fort Wood, administered by the National Park Service since 1933 and renamed in 1956.
Libyan Desert
The Libyan Desert is the hyperarid eastern Sahara, spanning western Egypt, eastern and southern Libya, and northwestern Sudan; it is the most arid part of the entire Sahara.
Libyan Plateau
Libyan Plateau: limestone plateau of Egypt's Western Desert in the Eastern Sahara, capped by Eocene Thebes Group limestones, hyperarid, with Serir gravel plains and mega-depressions; also plateau surfaces in Libya such as Messak Settafet.
Licancabur
Licancabur is a 5,916 m symmetrical stratovolcano on the Bolivia–Chile border in the Andean Central Volcanic Zone, with a 400 m summit crater holding one of the world's highest lakes, Inca ruins, and a normal Inca-road climbing route.
Licto
Licto is a group of three basaltic andesite scoria cones (Cerro Tulabug, Loma Bellavista, Licto) along the Rio Chambo 25 km SE of Riobamba, Ecuador, the southernmost Quaternary volcanism in the Interandean valley, with no known Holocene eruptions.
Liège Island
Liège Island (Ile Liège, Isla Lieja): island 9 mi long, 3 mi wide in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, immediately NE of Brabant Island at 64°02'S 61°55'W; charted and named for Belgium's Liège province by the Belgica expedition 1897-99 under de Gerlache.
Lika
Lika, karst highland region in southwest Croatia between Velebit and Kapela, home to the 465 km² Lika polje, sinking rivers Lika and Gacka, Plitvice Lakes, and Gospić; site of the 2025 hazardous-waste scandal.
Lindenberg Island
Lindenberg Island (Lindenbergzuckerhut) is a small circular volcanic island rising 200 m above the Larsen Ice Shelf off the Nordenskjöld Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by Carl Anton Larsen on 11 December 1893 for C. Lindenberg of Hamburg.
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, is a tidal island off Northumberland linked by a causeway, site of the 635 monastery of St Aidan, the 793 Viking raid, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and Lutyens' castle.
Line Islands
Line Islands: central Pacific coral atoll chain south of Hawaii; 8 of 11 atolls belong to Kiribati, 3 (Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, Jarvis Island) are US territories; Kiritimati is the world's largest atoll.
Lisianski Island
Lisianski Island (Papaʻāpoho), Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: a 1.5 km² sandy island with Neva Shoals (979 km²), discovered 1805 by the grounded Russian ship Neva; part of Papahānaumokuākea, hit hard by 2014 coral bleaching.
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Antarctic and subantarctic islands: over 800 islands in 22 major Southern Ocean groups, including South Georgia, Kerguelen, Crozet, Macquarie, and the five New Zealand subantarctic groups, governed by the Antarctic Treaty south of 60°S and by national law elsewhere.
List of Caribbean islands
The Caribbean islands are the more than 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cays of the West Indies, grouped into the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Lucayan Archipelago.