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Muztagh Ata
Muztagh Ata, "Father of Ice Mountains," a 7,546 m glaciated Pamir dome in Xinjiang, China; first climbed 31 July 1956 by a 31-member Sino-Soviet team via the west ridge, now a popular commercial 7,000er.
Mykonos (Μύκονος)
Mykonos (Μύκονος), Cyclades island in the Aegean: 86 km², 10,962 residents (2021), Neolithic Ftelia and Mycenaean Angelika sites, desalination-dependent water supply, and over two million annual visitors driving overtourism measures.
Myokosan
Myokosan (妙高山) is a 2,454 m active stratovolcano in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with a 3-km summit caldera and lava dome, active about 300,000 years, no historical eruptions, fumarolic Jigokudani area.
Mýrdalsjökull
Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland's fourth largest ice cap (598 km², ~140 km³ in 1991; 510 km² in 2023), covers the Katla volcano on the south coast, source of jökulhlaups and rapid 1994–2010 mass loss.
Nabro
Nabro (Nabbeo) is a 2,218 m stratovolcano in southern Eritrea, highest in the Danakil depression, with nested 8 and 5 km calderas in the Bidu complex. Its first recorded eruption began 12-13 June 2011 (VEI 4), emitting ~1.5 Tg SO2, the largest of 2002-2012, with activity ending mid-2012.
Namdrik Atoll
Namdrik Atoll (Namdik, Namorik) is a two-islet coral atoll in the Ralik Chain, Marshall Islands, with an enclosed lagoon lacking navigable passes, a 2012 Ramsar designation, black-lip pearl farming, and a noted community-based adaptation program.
Namib
The Namib is a roughly 2,000 km coastal desert along the southern African Atlantic coast, mainly in Namibia, famed for its fog-fed Namib Sand Sea dunes, Orange River sand provenance, endemic fog-harvesting wildlife, and the 2013 UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Namib Sand Sea
Namib Sand Sea: coastal fog desert in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Park, inscribed by UNESCO in 2013 under all four natural criteria; the world's only coastal desert with extensive fog-influenced dune fields, fed by Orange River sand.
Namsan (Gyeongju)
Namsan, also called Geumosan, is a mountain south of the ancient Silla capital at Gyeongju, South Korea, holding the country's densest concentration of Buddhist remains, inscribed by UNESCO in 2000.
Nanda Devi (नन्दा देवी)
Nanda Devi (नन्दा देवी), 7,817 m, is India's second highest peak in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, a sacred Hindu goddess mountain ringed by the Sanctuary basin, first climbed in 1936, closed to climbing since 1983, and a UNESCO World Heritage area.
Nandi Hills, India
Nandi Hills (Nandidurga, Nandi Betta) is a hill plateau and hill station in Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka, about 60 km north of Bengaluru, with Tipu Sultan's hill fort, five originating rivers, a Key Biodiversity Area, and heavy weekend tourism.
Nanfengmian
Nanfengmian (南风面) is a 2,120.4-meter mountain in Suichuan County, Jiangxi, China, and the highest peak of the Luoxiao Mountains, protected as a national nature reserve on a major bird migration flyway.
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat (Diamer/Deo Mir), the 8,126 m ninth-highest peak and western anchor of the Himalayas in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; the 'Killer Mountain' with the world's highest face (Rupal), first climbed solo by Hermann Buhl in 1953 and in winter in 2016.
Nanling Mountains
Nanling Mountains (南岭, Five Ridges, Wuling): east-west mountain system in southern China at the Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi junction; divides the Yangtze and Pearl River basins, highest peak Mao'ershan about 2,140 m, granite terrain rich in tungsten and tin, subtropical biodiversity hotspot.
Nanpō Islands
The Nanpō Islands (南方諸島, Nanpō Shotō, "Southern Islands") are the volcanic Japanese island groups stretching about 1,200 km south from Tokyo Bay: the Izu, Ogasawara (Bonin), and Kazan (Volcano) Islands.
Nansen Island
Nansen Island (Isla Nansen Sur) is the largest island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, at 64°35'S 62°05'W. Discovered and named Île Nansen by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache (1897-99) for Fridtjof Nansen; distinct from the Nansen Island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.
Nantaisan
Nantaisan (男体山, Mount Nantai) is a 2,486 m conical stratovolcano at Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, Japan, on the NE Japan volcanic front; its largest eruption ~17 ka, latest ~7 ka, sacred Futarasan Shrine mountain.
Nantucket
Nantucket, also called "The Faraway Land" in Wampanoag, is an island, town, and county 30 miles off Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 14 miles long, a former whaling capital, now an upscale summer resort.
Napier Mountains
Napier Mountains: Antarctic range in Enderby Land, East Antarctica, near 66°30'S 53°40'E; discovered 1930 by Mawson's BANZARE, named for Sir John Mellis Napier; highest peaks about 2,300 m; Archaean Napier Complex gneisses.
Nares Land
Nares Land is an uninhabited 1,466 km² island in Nordgrønland, northern Greenland, at about 82°25′N 45°W, named for explorer George Nares; Franklinian basin Lower Palaeozoic carbonates with Zn-Pb showings at Kap Wohlgemuth.
Nasudake
Nasudake (那須岳), also called Chausudake, is a 1,915 m active stratovolcano group at the north end of Japan's Kanto Plain, about 160 km north of Tokyo; last erupted phreatically in 1963, with six magmatic eruptions since 16,000 years ago, the latest in 1408-1410 CE.
Nathu La
Nathu La is a Himalayan pass in the Dongkya Range linking Sikkim, India with Yadong County, Tibet, at about 4,300 m, 56 km from Gangtok; a former Silk Route trade crossing closed in 1962 and reopened for border trade in 2006, site of the 1967 India-China clashes.
National Cave Rescue Commission
The National Cave Rescue Commission (NCRC) is a volunteer commission of the National Speleological Society, chartered in 1979, that trains and coordinates cave rescue resources nationwide.
National Speleological Society
National Speleological Society (NSS), founded 1941, US non-profit for cave study, conservation, and caving; 8,000+ members, 250+ grottos, 23+ preserves, publishes NSS News and Journal of Cave and Karst Studies from Huntsville, Alabama.
National Speleological Society Convention
The National Speleological Society Convention is the week-long annual summer gathering of the NSS, America's largest caving organization, combining caving trips, scientific sessions, and competitions.
Natuna Besar
Natuna Besar (Bunguran), largest island of Indonesia's Natuna archipelago in the South China Sea, Riau Islands Province; town Ranai, Gunung Ranai 959 m, Malay-peninsular bird genetics, endemic Kekah langur.
Natural Bridge (Virginia)
Natural Bridge (Virginia) is a 200-foot limestone arch over Cedar Creek in Rockbridge County, bought by Thomas Jefferson in 1774, a National Historic Landmark since 1998, and Virginia's 37th state park since 2016.
Navassa Island
Navassa Island: uninhabited ~5 km² U.S. Caribbean island west of Haiti, claimed 1857 under the Guano Islands Act, guano/phosphorite mined to 1898, a National Wildlife Refuge since 1999, and disputed by Haiti.
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
Necker Island: 74-acre private island in the North Sound, British Virgin Islands, owned by Richard Branson since 1979 ($180,000 purchase) and run by Virgin Limited Edition as a buyout-only luxury resort, about $105,000 a night.
Necker Island (Hawaii)
Necker Island (Mokumanamana) is a small basalt island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 155 miles northwest of Nihoa, with 52 pre-contact Hawaiian religious sites, solstice-aligned heiau, named by La Pérouse in 1786.