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Pyramiden/Hoeyriggen (HP Disko Island)
Pyramiden (Hoeyriggen), highest point of Disko Island, Greenland: a 1,904 m basalt peak of the Maligât Formation in northeastern Disko, first climbed 22 July by an Italian party; distinct from East Greenland and Svalbard namesakes.
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (Pirineos, els Pirineus, Pyrénées) are a 430-km mountain range forming the France–Spain–Andorra border, uplifted by the Alpine orogeny, with over 3,000-m summits, rapidly vanishing glaciers, and the Pyrénées–Mont Perdu World Heritage site.
Qaidam Basin
Qaidam Basin (柴达木盆地), hyperarid closed basin of ~120,000 km² on the NE Tibetan Plateau, China's highest desert (~2,800 m); salt flats, ~27 salt lakes, and nearly 80% of China's brine lithium.
Qattara Depression (منخفض القطارة)
Qattara Depression (منخفض القطارة), also called Munkhafad al-Qattarah, is a below-sea-level desert basin in northwest Egypt, up to 134 m deep, shaped by karst and deflation, and long proposed for hydropower flooding.
Qeqertarsuaq (island, Greenland)
Qeqertarsuaq (Disko, Old Norse Bjarney) is a volcanic island in Disko Bay, West Greenland, 8,620 km², highest point 1,919 m, one sixth glacier-covered, with the town Qeqertarsuaq/Godhavn, hot springs, and Copenhagen University's Arctic Station.
Qiajivik Mtn.
Qiajivik Mtn. is a 1,963 m (6,440 ft) mountain in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, the loftiest summit on northern Baffin Island with 1,787 m of topographic prominence.
Qikiqtarjuaq Island (island, Canada)
Qikiqtarjuaq Island (ᕿᑭᖅᑕᕐᔪᐊᖅ), formerly Big Island, is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, at 62.687° N, 70.602° W; distinct from the hamlet of Qikiqtarjuaq on Broughton Island.
Qilian Mountains
Qilian Mountains (祁连山, Qilian Shan): mountain system on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau in northwest China, about 850 km long, feeding the Hexi Corridor rivers; glaciers shrank ~26% from 1970 to 2020.
Qinling
Qinling (秦岭), central China's east-west mountain range and orogenic belt, forms the boundary between North and South China and the Yellow-Yangtze watershed; home to the Qinling giant panda and crested ibis.
Qornet es Saouda
Qornet es Saouda (Qurnat as Sawda', قرنة السودا), the Black Summit, is Lebanon's and the Levant's highest peak at 3,088 m, the summit of Jabal al Makmel in North Lebanon; a distinct 1,087 m namesake peak lies in Mount Lebanon Governorate.
Queen Alexandra Range
Queen Alexandra Range: about 100-mile-long East Antarctic range flanking the Beardmore Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains, named for Queen Alexandra at Shackleton's 1909 request; holds Mount Kirkpatrick, 4,528 m.
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Queen Elizabeth Islands: Canada's northernmost Arctic island group, north of Lancaster and Viscount Melville sounds, named for Elizabeth II in 1954; includes Ellesmere, Devon, Axel Heiberg, and Melville islands, 418,961 km2 total.
Queen Fabiola Mountains
Queen Fabiola Mountains (Yamato Sanmyaku, やまと山脈), a 50 km chain of seven massifs in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, discovered by Belgium's 1960 expedition and famed for the Yamato meteorite ice fields.
Queen Louise Land
Queen Louise Land (Danish: Dronning Louise Land) is a mountainous nunatak region west of Dove Bay in northeastern Greenland, named by the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition after Queen Louise, wife of King Frederik VIII, and explored by Koch's 1912–13 and British 1952–54 expeditions.
Quijada, isla
Isla Quijada (Quijada, isla) is an Antarctic island or ice rise in the Ronne Ice Shelf between Berkner Island and Korff Ice Rise, named by Argentina after Vicealmirante Hermes Quijada; also called Henry Ice Rise, at about 80°35'S 62°W.
Quilotoa
Quilotoa is an active volcano in Ecuador's Western Cordillera, about 83 km southwest of Quito, whose 3-km-wide caldera holds a deep turquoise crater lake popular with hikers.
Quirinal Hill
Quirinal Hill (Quirinalis Collis), northernmost of Rome's seven hills, named for the god Quirinus; site of the Quirinale Palace, residence of Italy's president, with ancient temples, baths, and the Dioscuri of Monte Cavallo.
Rabot Island
Rabot Island (Isla Rabot) is an Antarctic island in the Biscoe Islands, 8 km long and 3 km wide, 1.6 km south of Renaud Island off Graham Land, charted and named for Charles Rabot by Charcot's 1903–05 expedition.
Ragang
Ragang (Piapayungan), volcano number 271060, is a 2,790 m basaltic stratovolcano southeast of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao, Philippines, the island's most frequently active volcano, with 8 confirmed eruptions since 1765 and a last eruption in 1916.
Raʻiātea
Raʻiātea (Raiatea), a volcanic high island in the Leeward Society Islands, French Polynesia, about 220 km west of Tahiti; shares a lagoon with Tahaʻa and hosts the UNESCO-listed Taputapuātea marae complex.
Rainier
Mount Rainier, Washington's 14,410-ft active andesite-dacite stratovolcano and highest Cascade peak; last erupted about 1,000 years ago; greatest hazard is lahars; Very High threat rating.
Raja Ampat Islands
Raja Ampat, an Indonesian archipelago and regency in Southwest Papua of about 1,500 islands including Waigeo, Misool, Salawati, and Batanta, holds 75% of the world's coral species, a 10-area marine protected network, UNESCO Geopark status, and faces nickel mining pressure.
Rakaposhi
Rakaposhi (Dumani, "mother of mists") is a 7,788 m Karakoram peak in Nagar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; 27th-highest worldwide, first climbed 25 June 1958 by Mike Banks and Tom Patey, famed for its ~5,900 m north-face rise above the Hunza river.
Ralik Chain
Ralik Chain: the western "sunset" chain of the Marshall Islands, with 3 islands (Jabat, Kili, Lib) and 15 atolls including Bikini, Enewetak, and Kwajalein, site of US nuclear testing.
Randalls and Wards Islands
Randalls and Wards Islands are adjoining East River islands between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, joined by landfill into a roughly 480-acre park with Icahn Stadium, 60+ athletic fields, and city facilities.
Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple, or Golden Temple of Dambulla, a UNESCO World Heritage cave monastery in central Sri Lanka since 1991: five shrines, 2,100 m² of murals, 157 statues, over 22 centuries of pilgrimage.
Rangiroa
Rangiroa (Paumotu for 'great sky') is the largest atoll of French Polynesia's Tuamotus and the world's second largest atoll, with a 1,600 km2 lagoon, Tiputa and Avatoru passes, famed diving, and active marine protection.
Raoul Island
Raoul Island (Rangitāhua), largest of New Zealand's Kermadec Islands, 1,000 km northeast of the mainland; an active caldera volcano (eruptions 1814, 1870, 1964, 2006) staffed by DOC rangers and a nature reserve.
Rarotonga
Rarotonga: volcanic high island and largest island of the Cook Islands, capital Avarua, 67 km², population 13,095 (2011), home to Rarotonga International Airport and the Kakerori flycatcher.
Ras Dashen
Ras Dashen (Ras Dejen, ራስ ደጀን), Ethiopia's highest mountain in the Simien Mountains, Amhara Region; elevation disputed at 4,533-4,550 m, ultra-prominent peak, non-technical 6-10 day trek.