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Needle Peak
Needle Peak is a 300 m peak on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, on the west side of Brunow Bay.
Negev
The Negev (נגב) is Israel's southern desert, about 13,000 km² in the Saharo-Arabian belt, home to the Nabatean Incense Route World Heritage cities, runoff-farming ruins, a fast-growing Bedouin population, and the October 7-attacked Western Negev.
Negribreen
Negribreen, a ~40 km tidewater glacier in central eastern Svalbard draining into Storfjorden, surged in 1935-1936 and again from 2015-2016, reaching over 25 m/day, one of Svalbard's fastest-flowing glaciers.
Negrillar, La
La Negrillar (Aguas Perdidas) is a basaltic andesite pyroclastic cone and lava flow complex in Antofagasta, Chile, near Socompa volcano; 4,220 m elevation, ~50 km², no confirmed Holocene eruptions, distinct from the El Negrillar volcanic field.
Negros
Negros (native name Buglas) is the fourth-largest Philippine island in the Visayas, split into Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental since 1890, famed for sugar, Kanlaon volcano, and the 2024 Negros Island Region.
Nelson Island
Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: 22 km by 13 km island southwest of King George Island, 95% covered by a temperate ice cap, with protected Harmony Point (ASPA 133) and its chinstrap penguin colony. Distinct from Nelson Island, British Columbia.
Nemerçka / Maja e Drites
Nemërçka (Maja e Drites, Maja e Papingut, Dousko) is a limestone mountain range between Përmet and Gjirokastër in southern Albania; its summit, about 2,482–2,489 m, is the range's highest point and a biodiversity hotspot.
Nemjung
Nemjung (7,140 m, also listed 7,139 m) is a Peri Himal peak in Manang, Nepal, near Himlung Himal. First climbed in 1983 via the east ridge; new routes climbed in 2009 by French and Japanese teams.
Nendö Island
Nendö (Ndeni, Nendo, Ndende, Santa Cruz Island) is the largest of the Santa Cruz Islands in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands; a Lapita-settled volcanic-limestone island with non-Austronesian languages, Graciosa Bay, and a 2013 tsunami.
Nevada, Sierra
Sierra Nevada (Nevada, Sierra), Spanish for snowy range, names several mountains: the granitic Sierra Nevada of California and western Nevada, Spain's Betic Sierra Nevada, and Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and del Cocuy.
Nevado Auzangate
Nevado Auzangate (Ausangate), a 6,384 m glaciated peak in Peru's Cordillera Vilcanota near Cusco, fifth highest in Peru, sacred Apu, first climbed in 1953 by Heinrich Harrer.
Nevado Chachani
Nevado Chachani is a 6,057 m volcanic complex northwest of Arequipa, Peru, made of at least 12 edifices active from about 1.1 Ma to 20 ka; its non-technical normal route makes it a popular 6,000 m climb, with lahars the main hazard.
Nevado de Chañi
Nevado de Chañi (Nevado del Chañi, Cerro Chañi), an Andes massif on the Salta–Jujuy border in northwest Argentina and Jujuy's highest point, about 5,896–5,930 m, first climbed in 1901, with an Inca child burial restituted in 2026.
Nevado de Colima
Nevado de Colima, extinct andesitic stratovolcano (about 4,340 m) in Jalisco and Colima, Mexico; highest point of the Colima Volcanic Complex, 5.5 km north of the active Volcán de Colima, within Nevado de Colima National Park (1936, 6,554.75 ha).
Nevado de Famatima (Cerro Belgrano)
Nevado de Famatina, formally Cerro General Manuel Belgrano, is the highest summit of the Sierra de Famatina in La Rioja Province, Argentina, long worked for its gold deposits.
Nevado Illimani
Nevado Illimani, a 6,438 m glaciated massif in Bolivia's Cordillera Real near La Paz; highest peak of the range, second in Bolivia; first climbed by Conway in 1898; site of deep ice cores.
Nevado Sajama
Nevado Sajama, also called Nevado del Sajama, is Bolivia's highest mountain, a 6,542 m dormant stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental about 20 km from Chile, with 2,428 m prominence, an ice cap, and Sajama National Park.
Nevado Salcantay
Nevado Salcantay, also spelled Salkantay, is a ~6,264-6,279 m peak in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba, Cusco, highest near Machu Picchu; first climbed 1952 by an American-French team via the northeast ridge.
Nevado Sara Sara
Nevado Sara Sara (Sara Sara volcano) is a glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in Ayacucho, Peru, about 5,490-5,522 m high, the westernmost Quaternary volcano in Peru, last erupting roughly 14,000 years ago, with Inca ruins and the mummy Sarita on its summit.
Nevis
Nevis is the smaller, volcanic sister island of Saint Kitts in the Leeward Islands, capital Charlestown, about 13,000 people on 36 square miles, governed by the Nevis Island Administration under Premier Mark Brantley.
New Britain
New Britain, formerly Neu-Pommern under German rule, is the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea, about 610 kilometers long and home to over 500,000 people.
New Georgia
New Georgia: largest island of the New Georgia Islands group in Western Province, Solomon Islands, in New Georgia Sound. Includes Marovo Lagoon, Roviana culture, Munda, Gizo, and 1942-43 WWII fighting.
New Guinea
New Guinea, the world's second-largest island after Greenland, lies north of Australia, split between Indonesian Papua and Papua New Guinea; known for its central mountain range, Puncak Jaya, extreme biodiversity, and over 800 languages.
New Guinea Highlands
New Guinea Highlands: the Central Range mountain spine of New Guinea, ~1,300-2,000 km long with over 20 summits above 4,000 m, formed by Miocene arc-continent collision, home to endemic montane biodiversity and independent agriculture at Kuk Swamp.
New Siberia
Ostrov Novaya Sibir' (Новая Сибирь, New Siberia) is a ~6,200 km² uninhabited island, easternmost of the Anzhu Islands in Russia's New Siberian archipelago; discovered 1806, explored by Toll 1886, permafrost 316–337 m thick.
New Siberian Islands
The New Siberian Islands (Novosibirskiye Ostrova) are a Russian Arctic archipelago of about 28,200 sq km between the Laptev and East Siberian seas, in Sakha Republic, comprising the Anzhu, Lyakhovsky, and De Long island groups with continuous permafrost.
New Swabia
New Swabia (Neuschwabenland) is an area of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, surveyed and named by Nazi Germany during the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39, which advanced no lasting territorial claim.
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands: five island groups (Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell) between 47° and 53°S, a 1998 UNESCO World Heritage site with 76,458 ha land, endemic seabirds, sea lions, and megaherbs.
Newberry
Newberry (Newberry Volcano), a large shield-shaped composite volcano in central Oregon about 60 km east of the Cascade crest, the arc's most aerially extensive volcano (~3,200 km2), with a 6 x 8 km caldera holding Paulina and East lakes, last erupting about 1,300 years ago (Big Obsidian Flow).
Newfoundland (island)
Newfoundland (island): large North Atlantic island forming, with Labrador, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Known for L'Anse aux Meadows Norse site, Beothuk history, 903-km Trans-Canada Highway, and Marine Atlantic ferries.