Landforms and terrestrial features

North face of the Eiger

The Eiger North Face (Eiger-Nordwand, Mordwand) is an 1,800 m limestone wall in the Swiss Bernese Alps, first climbed 21–24 July 1938 by Heckmair, Vörg, Harrer, and Kasparek; about forty routes now climb it.

North Foreland

North Foreland is a cape at the northeastern point of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, forming the eastern entrance point of Emerald Cove.

North Island

North Island (Te Ika a Māui), the smaller but more populous of New Zealand's two main islands at 113,729 sq km, holding 75% of the population, with volcanic features including the Taupō caldera and active cones such as Ruapehu and Taranaki.

North Island Volcanic Plateau

North Island Volcanic Plateau: central New Zealand upland hosting the Taupō Volcanic Zone, a rifted arc from Whakaari/White Island to Ruapehu with rhyolitic calderas, 23 geothermal systems, and Lake Taupō.

North Kent Island

North Kent Island is an uninhabited, ice-capped island in Nunavut, Canada, lying in Cardigan Strait between Devon and Ellesmere Islands, with a recurring polynya attracting walruses, seals, and narwhals.

North Schell Peak

North Schell Peak is the 11,883-ft (LiDAR 11,890.9 ft) highest summit of Nevada's 142-mile Schell Creek Range, an ultra-prominent peak with about 5,400 ft of prominence in the High Schells Wilderness, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, near Ely.

North Shore (Massachusetts)

The North Shore of Massachusetts is the coastal region north of Boston, from Nahant and Revere to Salisbury on the New Hampshire line, mostly in Essex County, known for rocky shores, historic seaports like Salem and Gloucester, and contested boundaries.

North Siberian Lowland

North Siberian Lowland: flat lowland on the polar margins of Middle Siberia, Russia, including the Taymyr peninsula; 100–200 m ridges, bogged lake depressions, Byrranga mountains to 1146 m, tundra and forest-tundra vegetation.

North-Estonian Coastal Plain

North-Estonian Coastal Plain (Pohja-Eesti rannikumadalik), a narrow lowland between the North Estonian Klint and the Gulf of Finland; widest in Lahemaa (16-17 km), rising land uplift 2-3 mm/yr, till, cliff and sandy dune shores.

Northern Central Asian Highlands

Northern Central Asian Highlands, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 628, covers the upper Syr Darya and Talas basins in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, with endemic sculpins and the Syr Darya sturgeon.

Northern Patagonian Ice Field

The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, or Campo de Hielo Patagónico Norte, is a temperate ice cap in Chilean Patagonia covering about 3,700 km², with some 30 major outlet glaciers.

Northern Philippine Islands

The Northern Philippine Islands is a freshwater ecoregion, FEOW number 755, covering most of the Philippine archipelago from Luzon to Negros, Bohol, and Siargao, while excluding Mindoro and Palawan.

Northern Tablelands

Northern Tablelands: highland region of northern New South Wales on the Great Dividing Range, core of New England; 34,500 km2, over 1,000 m elevation, summer-dominant rainfall, towns Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield; distinct from the Queensland Northern Tablelands.

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Leeward Islands, NWHI) are the mostly uninhabited northwestern three quarters of the Hawaiian archipelago, from Nihoa to Kure Atoll, within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, with predator-dominated coral reefs and 2025 sanctuary designation.

Noto Peninsula

Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto Hantō), northern Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, a 100 km rural peninsula on the Sea of Japan; reverse-fault tectonics, a 2020-2024 seismic swarm, and the destructive January 1, 2024 M7.6 earthquake with major coastal uplift.

Nottingham Island

Nottingham Island (Inuktitut: Tujjaat) is an uninhabited 1,358 km² island in western Hudson Strait, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, near the entrance to Hudson Bay; site of the 1927 Hudson Strait Expedition Base B and radio station VCB, closed 1970.

Novaya Zemlya (Новая Земля)

Novaya Zemlya (Новая Земля) is a Russian Arctic archipelago separating the Barents Sea from the Kara Sea, and the Soviet Union's principal nuclear test site.

Novyy Island

Novyy Island is the United States name for Novyj, Kupol, a small Antarctic island at 70°50'S, 2°50'W listed in the Russia Gazetteer and SCAR Composite Gazetteer; the name Ostrov Novyy also denotes islands in Siberia and Kazakhstan.

Nuaf Nefomasi

Nuaf Nefomasi, known in Indonesian as Gunung Mutis, is a mountain on Timor and the highest point of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, at 2,417 m.

Nubian Desert

Nubian Desert: sandstone plateau of northeastern Sudan in the eastern Sahara, between the Nile and Red Sea hills; overlies the non-renewable Nubian Aquifer System and hosts Sudan's informal gold mines.

Nummulitic limestone, Valle dell'Onte Formation

Nummulitic limestone, Valle dell'Onte: Early Oligocene (33.9-28.4 Ma) coral-rich nummulitic limestone outcrop in Valle dell'Onte, Veneto, NE Italy, overlying the Marne a briozoi of the Marna di Priabona Formation; not a formally named formation.

Nun (landform)

Nun (landform): 7,135 m peak of the Nun-Kun massif, Zanskar Range, Ladakh, India; ultra-prominent (2,404 m), first climbed 1953 by Vittoz and Kogan; not the Nuntsi park or Zion cliffs.

Nunivak Island

Nunivak Island: volcanic Bering Sea island off western Alaska, third largest off the Alaskan coast, home to Mekoryuk village and the muskox herd reintroduced from Greenland in the 1930s, source of Alaska's muskox translocations.

Nusa Penida

Nusa Penida: largest of Bali's three Nusa islands in Klungkung Regency, Indonesia; a 2010 marine protected area with 296 coral and 576 fish species, IMO PSSA since 2024, and a major tourism destination facing carrying-capacity limits.

Nusplingen Limestone

Nusplingen Limestone (Nusplinger Plattenkalk), Upper Jurassic laminated limestone and fossil Lagerstätte on the Westerberg, Swabian Alb, Germany; Late Kimmeridgian, ~150 Ma, deep lagoon, over 8,000 exceptionally preserved fossils, older and richer than Solnhofen.