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Makkaravjo
Makkaravjo is a historical North Sami spelling of Magerøya (Máhkarávju), the Norwegian island in Nordkapp, Finnmark, home to the North Cape, Knivskjelodden, Honningsvåg, and the 1999 Nordkapptunnelen link to the mainland.
Makran (مکران)
Makran (مکران), also Mokrān, is the coastal region of Baluchistan split between Iran and Pakistan; ancient Maka and Gedrosia, crossed by Alexander in 325 BCE, and site of the Makran subduction zone and its large accretionary prism.
Makushin
Makushin Volcano: active ice-covered stratovolcano, 1,800 m, on northern Unalaska Island, Alaska, 25 km west of Dutch Harbor; 2.5-3 km caldera formed about 8,000 years ago; 18 historical eruptions since 1786, last in 1995.
Malabar Coast
Malabar Coast: southern western coastal plain of India along the Arabian Sea, in Kerala and coastal Karnataka; also called the Pepper Coast. Narrow backwater plain, Southwest Monsoon rainfall, historic spice trade center with Calicut and Vasco da Gama's 1498 landing.
Malaita
Malaita: most populous island of Solomon Islands, 4,200 km2, 190 km long, provincial capital Auki; Ontong Java Plateau terrane, Maasina Rule movement, 2020 independence referendum threat.
Malakula (island, Vanuatu)
Malakula (Malekula) is Vanuatu's second-largest island, about 2,000 km2 at 16°15'S 167°30'E in Malampa Province, with roughly 27,000 people speaking over 30 languages, northeast tilting tectonics, vanished-island traditions, and a colonial history of resistance.
Malaspina Glacier
Malaspina Glacier (Tlingit Sít' Tlein, "big glacier") in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, is the world's largest piedmont glacier, about 2,400 km², surging, thinning over 1 m per year, and grounded largely below sea level.
Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago, or Indo-Australian Archipelago (Kepulauan Melayu), is the vast island group between Southeast Asia and Australia, including Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and New Guinea.
Malay Peninsula
Malay Peninsula (Tanah Melayu): southernmost projection of the Asian mainland from the Isthmus of Kra to Tanjung Piai, forming Peninsular Malaysia; granite backbone, tin, Strait of Malacca trade route, Sunda Shelf geology.
Malden Island
Malden Island, also called Independence Island, is an uninhabited raised coral atoll in the southern Line Islands of Kiribati, 700 km SE of Kiritimati; site of 1860–1927 guano mining, prehistoric Polynesian marae ruins, and the three 1957 Operation Grapple nuclear tests; a wildlife sanctuary within the Southern Line Islands MPA.
Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
The Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests is a WWF-designated ecoregion spanning the Maldives, Lakshadweep, and Chagos islands, the Indian Ocean's largest atoll system with sparse coastal forest.
Male Mahadeshwara Hills
Male Mahadeshwara Hills (MM Hills, Malai Mahadeshwara Betta) is a Shaiva pilgrimage hill range in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, with a swayambhu Shiva temple tied to a 15th-century saint, inside the 906.19 km² wildlife sanctuary notified in 2013.
Malenadu (ಮಲೆನಾಡು)
Malenadu (ಮಲೆನಾಡು), or Malnad, is the Western Ghats region of Karnataka, India, from Kannada male (rain) and nadu (land). Heavy monsoon rainfall, coffee, arecanut and tea plantations in Chikkamagaluru, Hassan and Kodagu districts.
Malham Cove
Malham Cove is a 70 meter high curved limestone cliff near Malham in the Yorkshire Dales, England, a former waterfall crowned by the district's best known limestone pavement.
Malinche
La Malinche (Matlalcueye) is a 4,461 m dormant stratovolcano northeast of Puebla, Mexico, in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt; last confirmed eruption 1170 BCE, Holocene ash about 3,100 years ago, potentially active with over 2 million people nearby.
Malintang
Malintang (Sorikmalintang), volcano 261121, is a 1,988 m andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano in West Sumatra, Indonesia, source of the ~1.53 ka Lubuk King Tephra, the youngest known VEI 5 eruption in Sumatra.
Mallorca
Mallorca (Majorca), largest of Spain's Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean, 3,603 km² with the Serra de Tramuntana range; karst limestone island dependent on groundwater, a UNESCO-listed mountain landscape, and a mass-tourism economy facing drought and overtourism protests.
Malta (island)
Malta (island): largest of the three inhabited Maltese Islands in the central Mediterranean, 93 km south of Sicily; 246 km² limestone island with karst terrain, scarce surface water, EU-highest population density, and prehistoric temples from 3600–2500 BCE.
Malta Plateau
Malta Plateau: shallow carbonate platform in the Sicily Channel, central Mediterranean, stretching from the Hyblean Plateau to SE of Malta; 150 km long, 120 km wide, depths 100-200 m, on the Pelagian Platform of the African foreland.
Malubiting
Malubiting (مالونیتنگ), or Malubiting West, is a 7,458 m ultra-prominent peak in the Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains of Pakistan's Karakoram. First climbed 23 August 1971 by an Austrian team; only one further ascent, in 1997, is documented.
Malukku
Malukku (FEOW ecoregion 747) is a freshwater ecoregion of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, in the Australasia realm, tropical and subtropical coastal rivers type, with three endemic gobies and monsoonal, amphidromous-dominated short coastal rivers.
Maluku Islands
Maluku Islands (Moluccas, Spice Islands): Indonesian archipelago between Sulawesi and New Guinea; historic sole source of nutmeg and mace (Banda Islands), contested by Portuguese, Dutch, and English; capital Ambon.
Malwa (मालवा)
Malwa (मालवा), also Malava, is a historical region and Deccan Trap basalt plateau in west-central India, anciently Avanti with capital Ujjain, later ruled by the Paramaras, the Malwa Sultanate at Mandu, the Mughals, and Maratha chiefs Holkar, Sindhia and Pawar.
Maly Lyakhovsky Island
Ostrov Malyy Lyakhovskiy (Малый Ляховский), or Maly Lyakhovsky Island, is the second largest Lyakhovsky Island in the New Siberian Islands, Laptev Sea, Yakutia; upper Jurassic–lower Cretaceous bedrock, thermokarst terraces, and the 2012 find of a female woolly mammoth carcass with preserved soft tissue.
Mammoth Mountain
Mammoth Mountain: 3,369-m trachydacite lava-dome complex on the southwest rim of Long Valley Caldera, California; last phreatic eruption ~700 years ago; CO2 tree kill and ongoing USGS-monitored unrest.
Mamostong Kangri
Mamostong Kangri (Mamostang Kangri, K35), 7,516 m, is the highest peak of the Rimo Muztagh in the eastern Karakoram, Ladakh, India. First climbed in 1984 by an Indo-Japanese team via the east ridge; name means 'thousand demons'.
Manaslu
Manaslu (8,163 m), eighth-highest mountain, in Gorkha/Manang, Nepal; first climbed 9 May 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu of Yuko Maki's Japanese expedition; restricted-area trekking and conservation area.
Manchurian Plain
Manchurian Plain (Dongbei Pingyuan, Northeast China Plain): China's largest plain, ~35 × 10^5 km² between 40°–48° N and 118°–135° E, divided into Songliao and Sanjiang plains, with fertile black soils and maize, soybean, and rice farming.
Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island, Ontario: the world's largest freshwater island at 2,766 km² in Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, home to Anishinaabe nations, the 1836 Treaty 45 and 1862 surrender, the Little Current swing bridge, and the Chi-Cheemaun ferry.
Manjanggul
Manjanggul Cave Park centers on Manjanggul (만장굴), a 7.4 km lava tube on Jeju Island, South Korea, and the main cave of the UNESCO-listed Geomunoreum Lava Tube System.