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List of mountains in Pakistan
Mountains of Pakistan: peaks of the Karakoram, Himalaya, and Hindu Kush converging in Gilgit-Baltistan. Five of the world's 14 8,000 m peaks, led by K2 (8,611 m), plus Tirich Mir (7,690 m), 13,032 glaciers, and Central Karakoram National Park.
List of mountains in the Philippines
Mountains of the Philippines, also called the Philippine peaks, number over 2,700; highest are Mount Apo (2,954 m), Mount Dulang-dulang (2,938 m), and Mount Pulag, Luzon's tallest, shaped by subduction tectonics.
List of mountains of New Zealand by height
Mountains of New Zealand by height: highest peaks led by Aoraki/Mount Cook (3,724 m) in the Southern Alps; covers the 1991 avalanche height change, survey history, and peak distribution.
List of mountains of the British Isles by height
Mountains of the British Isles ranked by height: Ben Nevis highest at 1,345 m; 600 m mountain threshold; overlapping lists such as the 282 Munros, 222 Corbetts, 214 Wainwrights and 1,556 Marilyns.
List of North American deserts
List of North American deserts: the four major deserts, Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan, their sizes, climates, rain-shadow origins, locations in the US and Mexico, and classification subdivisions.
List of the highest major summits of Colorado
Highest major summits of Colorado: peaks of at least 3,000 m elevation and 500 m prominence, essentially the state's 58 fourteeners above 14,000 ft. Mount Elbert (14,438 ft) leads; 53 peaks meet the 300-ft prominence ranking rule; NGS 2024 remeasurement lowered NAVD 88 heights about two feet.
List of U.S. states and territories by coastline
List of U.S. states and territories by coastline: NOAA ranks Alaska (33,904 mi), Florida (8,436), Louisiana (7,721) among 95,439 statute miles of tidal shoreline; a 2021 CUSP tabulation gives 221,923 miles.
List of United States caving fatalities
List of United States caving fatalities: deaths in US caves recorded in American Caving Accidents (NSS). 81 deaths 1980-2008, mostly falls and drowning; 368 cave-diving deaths 1969-2007, mostly Florida.
List of Wainwrights
The Wainwrights are the 214 Lake District fells given chapters in Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–1966); no height rule applies, Scafell Pike (978 m) is highest, with the 116-fell Outlying Fells as a companion list.
Little Cornwallis Island
Little Cornwallis Island, a low-lying Nunavut island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands at 75.5N 96.5W, hosted Cominco's Polaris lead-zinc mine, the world's northernmost base-metal mine, from 1981 to 2002.
Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island (Ignaluk) is a US island in the Bering Strait, 2.4 miles from Russian Big Diomede across the International Date Line, home to the Iñupiat village of Diomede, population 82 in 2020.
Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands
Little Saint James is a roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, owned by Jeffrey Epstein from 1998, alleged site of trafficking, sold in 2023 to Stephen Deckoff.
Livanjsko Polje
Livanjsko Polje (Livno karst field) is the largest karst polje of the Dinaric karst, about 405–410 km² in western Bosnia and Herzegovina near Livno, a Ramsar wetland since 2008, regularly flooded on 230 km² and home to the Balkans' largest peatland.
Livingston Island (landform)
Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; second largest island of the archipelago, 798 km2, first land discovered south of 60°S (William Smith, 1819); ice cap, Tangra Mountains, Mount Friesland.
Livonia
Livonia (Livland, Liflandia): historic Baltic region now split between southern Estonia and Latvia's Vidzeme; Terra Mariana from 1207, Livonian Confederation to 1561, then Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian, and Russian rule.
Llano Estacado
Llano Estacado (Staked Plains): southern extension of the High Plains in northwest Texas and northeast New Mexico, a 32,000-square-mile treeless mesa over the Ogallala aquifer, bounded by the Caprock and Mescalero escarpments.
Llanos
Llanos (Los Llanos, Orinoquia ecoregion): vast tropical savanna plains of Colombia and Venezuela, over 500,000 km2 along the Orinoco; second-largest Neotropical savanna, cattle-ranching llanero culture, Trachypogon grasslands, capybara and Orinoco crocodile.
Llullaillaco
Llullaillaco, a 6,739 m stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border, is the world's highest historically active volcano (last eruption 1877), second-highest active volcano, site of an Inca summit sanctuary with preserved child mummies, and home to the highest-dwelling mammal.
Loess Plateau
Loess Plateau (黄土高原, Huangtu Gaoyuan), north-central China's ~640,000 km² wind-deposited silt upland in the Yellow River basin; world's largest loess deposit, once Earth's most eroded region, now restored by the 1999 Grain for Green Program.
Lofoten
Lofoten is a roughly 200 km island chain in Nordland, Norway, above the Arctic Circle, famed for the winter skrei (Northeast Arctic cod) fishery, stockfish trade, medieval Vágar, the Borg Viking longhouse, and dramatic alpine scenery.
Loks Land
Loks Land is an island in Nunavut's Canadian Arctic Archipelago, off Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula at the entrance to Frobisher Bay, named by Martin Frobisher for Michael Lok.
Loloru
Loloru (also spelled Lolaru) is a dormant 1,887 m compound volcano, the southeasternmost on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, with nested calderas, a summit lake, six Holocene explosive eruptions ending about 1050 BCE, and persistent fumarolic activity.
Loltun
Loltún (Lol-Tun, "flower of stone") is a large dry karst cave and archaeological site near Oxkutzcab, Yucatán, Mexico, with a cultural sequence from about 9000 BC to 1500 AD and about 4,000 Late Pleistocene–Holocene fossils.
Loma Mountains
Loma Mountains: mountain range in Koinadugu District, north-east Sierra Leone, home to Bintumani (1,945 m), West Africa's highest peak west of Mount Cameroon. Gazetted a forest reserve in 1952 (32,815.6 ha), upgraded to Loma Mountains National Park in 2015; source of the Sewa and Rokel rivers.
Lombardische Kieselkalk Formation
Lombardische Kieselkalk (Lombardischer Kieselkalk), the Moltrasio Limestone of the Lombardian Basin, Southern Alps: an Early Jurassic, cherty, gray-black basinal limestone, up to about 3,000 m thick, overlying the Saltrio Formation.
Lombok
Lombok: Indonesian island in West Nusa Tenggara east of Bali, homeland of the Muslim Sasak people, dominated by 3,726 m Mount Rinjani and the 1257 Samalas caldera, ruled by Balinese rajas until the 1894 Dutch expedition.
Long Beach Island
Long Beach Island (LBI) is an 18-mile developed barrier island off Ocean County, New Jersey, between Barnegat and Little Egg inlets, with six shore towns, a 19th-century whaling and railroad resort history, and engineered beach nourishment since the 1930s.
Long Island
Long Island: 118-mile island in southeastern New York spanning Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties; 2.9 million suburban residents, glacial moraine origin, sole-source aquifer, and the LIRR commuter rail.
Longavi, Nevado de
Nevado de Longaví (also Nevado de Lonquen) is a 3,175 m andesitic stratovolcano in Maule Region, Chile, last erupting 4890 BCE, with the Southern Volcanic Zone's only adakitic dacites and a 2026 seismic swarm that briefly raised its alert to Yellow.
Longonot
Mount Longonot (Oloonong'ot) is a 2,776 m trachytic caldera stratovolcano southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Kenya Rift, last erupted 1863, with 2004–2006 InSAR uplift and a national park.