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Newtontoppen
Newtontoppen, named for Isaac Newton, is the highest mountain in Svalbard at about 1,712-1,713 m, in Ny-Friesland, northeastern Spitsbergen; first climbed in 1900 by Helge Backlund.
Ngan Kyun
Ngan Kyun is a small island in Rakhine State, Myanmar, near the villages Pan Tu Ma and Nga Mauk Kywain, at 19.513°N, 93.815°E, elevation −3 m; GeoNames ID 1304546, Wikidata Q27698442.
Ngoc Linh (mountain, Vietnam)
Ngoc Linh (Ngọc Linh), 2,598 m, highest peak of Vietnam's Central Highlands on the Kon Tum–Quảng Nam border; ultra-prominent Annamite summit, home of endemic Ngoc Linh ginseng (Panax vietnamensis) and a demanding trekking destination.
Ngozi
Ngozi (Lake Ngozi, Ngosi Volcano) is a Holocene collapse caldera volcano in Tanzania's Rungwe Volcanic Province, 2,614 m high, last erupting about 1450 CE, holding a large crater lake and a geothermal prospect.
Niagara Escarpment
The Niagara Escarpment is a dolostone-capped cuesta over 1,000 km long through Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and New York, forming Niagara Falls, carved by Pleistocene ice streams, and protected by Ontario's 1985 Niagara Escarpment Plan and a 1990 UNESCO Biosphere Reserve designation.
Nias
Nias is an Indonesian island off western Sumatra, home of the Ono Niha people, megalithic culture, earthquake-resistant Omo Hada houses, late Dutch pacification (1914), the 2005 Mw 8.6 earthquake, and Sorake surfing.
Nicholl Head
Nicholl Head (Punta Nicholl) is a headland on the north-west Antarctic Peninsula at 67°47'S, 67°06'W, listed in the US Gazetteer of Antarctica and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, with a September 1956 survey record.
Nicoya Peninsula
Nicoya Peninsula (Península de Nicoya), Costa Rica's largest peninsula on the Pacific coast across the Gulf of Nicoya; built of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Nicoya Complex ophiolite, sits above the Middle America Trench subduction zone, and is a validated blue zone of exceptional longevity.
Nīhoa
Nihoa (Moku Manu, Bird Island) is a 72-ha basalt island remnant at the southeastern end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, about 250 km from Kauaʻi, with 89 Hawaiian archaeological sites, endemic finch and millerbird, and 900-foot cliffs.
Niʻihau
Niʻihau is a small privately owned Hawaiian island west of Kauaʻi, sold to the Sinclair family in 1864 and known as the Forbidden Island for its closed access.
Niigata-Yakeyama
Niigata-Yakeyama (新潟焼山), also called Mount Yake, is a 2,400 m andesite-dacite lava-dome stratovolcano on the Niigata-Nagano border, Japan. Last magmatic eruption 1773; 1974 phreatic eruption killed three climbers; monitored 24 hours by JMA with alert levels 1-5.
Nikko-Shiranesan
Nikko-Shiranesan (日光白根山) is an active volcano on the border of Gunma and Tochigi prefectures in central Honshu, Japan, rising to 2,578 m at its peak, Shiranesan.
Nikumaroro
Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, is an uninhabited Phoenix Islands atoll in Kiribati, site of a 1938-1963 British colony and of the TIGHAR hypothesis that Amelia Earhart died there as a castaway.
Nimba Range
The Nimba Range (Monts Nimba) is a mountain massif on the border of Guinea, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire, rising to 1,752 m at Mount Richard-Molard and rich in endemic species.
Nisí Ándros
Nisí Ándros (Άνδros), or Andros, is the northernmost and second-largest Cyclades island in Greece, 374 km², peak Profitis Ilias 997 m; Neolithic Strofilas, Geometric Zagora, Byzantine silk wealth, and a major shipping tradition.
Nisída Goúvino
Nisída Goúvino, also called Lazareto or Lazaretto, is a small uninhabited islet two nautical miles northeast of Corfu town, formerly a Venetian quarantine station and the 1946-1949 Civil War execution site, transferred to Corfu Municipality in 2025.
Nisyros (Νίσυρος)
Nisyros (Νίσυρος) is a Greek Dodecanese volcanic island south of Cos with a 3.8 km caldera, thirteen historical phreatic eruptions (last 1888), 1996 unrest, and UNESCO Global Geopark status in 2026.
Niutitang Formation
Niutitang Formation (牛蹄塘组), Lower Cambrian black shale of the Yangtze platform, South China; named at Zunyi, Guizhou; organic-rich, highly mature shale gas source with a polymetallic Ni-Mo ore layer.
Nootka Island
Nootka Island, British Columbia: 526 sq km island on the NW side of Nootka Sound off Vancouver Island's west coast; home of Yuquot (Friendly Cove), the Mowachaht village and 1923 national historic site; formerly Isla de Mazarredo.
Norbert Casteret
Norbert Casteret (1897–1987), French speleologist and prehistorian of the Pyrenees; crossed the Montespan siphons in 1922, traced the Garonne's source with fluorescein, and wrote Ten Years Under the Earth.
Nordaustlandet
Nordaustlandet (North-East Land), Svalbard's second largest island at 14,467 km², lies northeast of Spitsbergen across Hinlopenstretet and is mostly covered by the Vestfonna and Austfonna ice caps, Europe's largest glacier.
Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjöld Coast, on the east Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather, is named for explorer Otto Nordenskjöld; its outlet glaciers have lost about 4.2 Gt of ice per year since the 1995 Larsen-A ice shelf collapse.
Norikuradake
Norikuradake (乗鞍岳, Mount Norikura), 3,026 m Kengamine, is a composite andesite-dacite volcano, the third highest volcano in Japan, at the southern end of the Northern Japan Alps on the Nagano-Gifu border, a Hyakumeizan hiking peak with a shuttle-bus skyline.
Norman's Cay
Norman's Cay is a small Exuma island in The Bahamas, 42 miles southeast of Nassau, that served as Carlos Lehder's Medellín Cartel cocaine transit base from 1978 to about 1982 before a 1982 Bahamian crackdown; it is now a private resort island with a famous plane-wreck dive site.
Normanby Island
Normanby Island, southernmost of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea; about 900–1,000 km², rises to 1,158 m in the Prevost Range, named by Captain John Moresby in 1873, and hosts the Normanby Dome metamorphic core complex.
North Andaman Island
North Andaman Island is the northernmost of the four large islands of Great Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Main town Diglipur; area about 1376 sq km; Saddle Peak (731 m), the archipelago's highest point; seismic zone V.
North Buttress, Mt. Hesperus
North Buttress is an alternate name for Mount Hesperus, Alaska, a 9,828-ft Revelation Mountains peak, Bethel County high point, first climbed May 2, 1985 via the Southwest Face by Lesueur, Swanson, and Spalding; climbed only once.
North Cape (Norway)
North Cape (Nordkapp, Davvenjárga) is a 309 m cliff plateau on Magerøya, Finnmark, Norway, at 71°10′21″N, reached by E69 and marketed as mainland Europe's northernmost point, though Knivskjellodden and Kinnarodden lie farther north.
North Ellesmere Ice Cap
North Ellesmere Ice Cap: the ice cover of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, dominated by the Northern Ellesmere Icefield, Agassiz Ice Cap, and Prince of Wales Icefield, with rapidly shrinking small Hazen Plateau ice caps such as St Patrick Bay.
North European Plain
North European Plain (Nizina Środkowoeuropejska, Norddeutsches Tiefland): lowland from the Low Countries through Germany, Denmark, and Poland, bounded by the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and Central European highlands, shaped by glaciation and farmed intensively.