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Serra do Barbado
Serra do Barbado, a mountain range in southeastern Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil; contains Pico do Barbado (2,033 m), the highest point of Bahia and the Brazilian Northeast, within the APA da Serra do Barbado.
Serra do Cachimbo
Serra do Cachimbo, a 550-km SE-NW sandstone range between Mato Grosso and Pará, Brazil, in the Amazon-Cerrado transition; hosts the Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso air force testing ground and the 342,192-ha Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve (2005).
Serra do Espinho
Serra do Espinho: name of several Brazilian uplands, chiefly a ridge on the eastern slope of the Borborema Plateau between Pilões and Cuitegi, Paraíba, crossed by PB-077; also a 541 m ridge in Minas Gerais and a 543 m hill in Paulista, Paraíba.
Serra dos Gradaús
Serra dos Gradaús (also Serra dos Gradahús) is a 469 m upland ridge in Santana do Araguaia, Pará, Brazil, and the name of a 1882±9 Ma anorogenic granite batholith of the Carajás Province, Amazonian Craton.
Serra Dourada
Serra Dourada, Goiás, Brazil: ENE-trending quartzite hogback and Paraná–Araguaia drainage divide; Parque Estadual da Serra Dourada (2003, ~30,000 ha) and APA (1998, 37,041 ha); distinct from Bahia municipality.
Serra Geral
Serra Geral, southern Brazil's basalt-capped escarpment along the Paraná Plateau, formed by Cretaceous Paraná-Etendeka flood basalts about 130 Ma, distinct from the crystalline Serra do Mar; includes Serra Geral National Park and Fortaleza Canyon.
Serra Imeri
Serra Imeri (Serra do Imeri), a mountain range on the Brazil–Venezuela border in Amazonas, holds Brazil's two highest peaks, Pico da Neblina (2,995.3 m) and Pico 31 de Março, and marks part of the international boundary.
Serra Tulu Tuloi
Serra Tulu Tuloi (Serra Tulu-Tuloi) is an ultra-prominent mountain range in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil, in the Southern Guiana Highlands; summit about 2,136-2,140 m, prominence about 1,950-1,967 m, near Tulu Tuloi II and the Serra do Aracá tepui complex.
Serrania Guanay
Serrania Guanay, also written Serranía de Guanay, is a mountain and range in the Guayana Highlands of Venezuela, near the Amazonas and Bolívar state border.
Serranilla Bank
Serranilla Bank (Banco Serranilla), a submerged Caribbean carbonate platform at 16°N 80°W on the Nicaraguan Rise, about 1,200 km² with a few low cays; administered by Colombia, also claimed by the United States, with ICJ litigation and a 1986 Honduras treaty dividing it.
Seven hills of Rome
Seven hills of Rome: Palatine, Capitoline, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal, the canonical elevations of ancient Rome on the Tiber's east bank, volcanic in origin, first settled around 2000 BC, with a list unknown in any ancient author.
Seven Sisters Peaks
Seven Sisters Peaks: 2,747 m multi-summit massif in the Bulkley Ranges, British Columbia, above the Skeena River near Cedarvale; seven Tsimshian/Gitxsan-named summits, first ascent 1941 by Neal M. Carter, within Seven Sisters Provincial Park.
Seward Mountains
Seward Mountains: a mountain group rising to about 1,350 m southeast of the Buttress Nunataks, George VI Sound, Palmer Land, Antarctica; surveyed by the BGLE in 1936 and named for palaeobotanist Sir Albert Charles Seward.
Seward Peninsula
Seward Peninsula: large peninsula of northwestern Alaska jutting toward Russia across the Bering Strait; site of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, the Nome gold rush of 1898-1910, and continuous permafrost tundra.
Seweweekspoortpiek
Seweweekspoortpiek (Seven Weeks Defile Peak) is a 2,325 m summit in the Klein Swartberg, Western Cape, South Africa; the province's highest point and a Cape Fold Belt ultra with 1,545 m prominence.
Shackleton Coast
Shackleton Coast, Antarctic coast between Cape Selborne and the eastern Beardmore Glacier on the Ross Sea, named for explorer Ernest Shackleton; discovered 1907-09, NZ Gazetteer official name.
Shackleton Range
Shackleton Range (Shackletonkjeda): east-west mountain block in southern Coats Land, East Antarctica, between Slessor and Recovery glaciers, 240 km long, rising to 1,875 m at Holmes Summit; a truncated Pan-African orogen uplifted by faulting and glacial erosion.
Shadowa
Shadowa is a small island in Pemba North Region, Tanzania, in the Zanzibar Archipelago, about 2.5 miles (4.1 km) from Pemba Island; also recorded as a cove near Kitambuu, ward Kwaalinatu, time zone Africa/Dar es Salaam.
Shakangsham
Shakangsham, also spelled Shahkangshan or Shar Kangsum, is a 6,822 m ultra-prominent peak (1,914 m prominence) in Gêrzê County on the Central Tibetan Plateau, China, with no recorded ascents; a 2005 expedition turned back near 6,000 m after avalanches.
Shala
Shala (O'a, Shalla) is a silicic caldera volcano in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia, whose caldera holds Lake Shala, the rift's deepest lake. Caldera formed 240±30 ka; no Holocene eruptions known; fumaroles and geothermal springs persist.
Shamian (沙面)
Shamian (沙面), also known as Shameen, is a small artificial island in the Pearl River in Guangzhou, China, built as a British and French concession after the Second Opium War.
Shan Plateau
Shan Plateau, upland in eastern Myanmar extending into Yunnan, China and Thailand; average elevation about 910 m; bounded by Sagaing and Red River faults; Sibumasu Terrane with ~12 mm/yr sinistral fault slip.
Shandong Peninsula (山东半岛)
Shandong Peninsula (山东半岛), also called Jiaodong Peninsula, is China's largest peninsula, between the Bohai and Yellow Seas; home to Qingdao, Yantai, and Weihai, with a 3,121 km coastline marked by rapid artificial-shoreline growth and natural-shore erosion.
Shanidar Cave
Shanidar Cave, in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, is a Palaeolithic site where Ralph Solecki excavated ten Neanderthals (1951–1960), including the famous but now doubted 'Flower Burial' of Shanidar 4; new excavations since 2014 found Shanidar Z.
Shannon Ø
Shannon Ø (Shannon Island), large uninhabited island in Northeast Greenland National Park east of Hochstetter Forland, about 1,258.5 km², named by Clavering in 1823 for HMS Shannon; site of the 1909–12 Alabama expedition hut and the 1943–44 German Bassgeiger weather station.
Shanzidou
Shanzidou (扇子陡), "Fan Peak," is the 5,596 m highest summit of Yulong Xueshan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) near Lijiang, Yunnan. Sacred Naxi peak, climbed once in 1987 by Peralta-Ramos and Perlman, now closed to climbing.
Sharks Teeth Peaks
Sharks Teeth Peaks, aka Shark's Teeth Peaks, is a 2,304 m ultra-prominent summit (1,914 m prominence) in the Kitimat Ranges, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, near Kimsquit Lake; first climbed July 2025.
Shebelle - Juba
Shebelle - Juba is a freshwater ecoregion covering the Wabi Shebelle and Juba river basins of the Horn of Africa, from the Ethiopian Highlands to the Indian Ocean.
Shedin Peak
Shedin Peak, a 2,588 m mountain in the Atna Range of the Skeena Mountains, northern British Columbia; its highest summit, 77 km north of Hazelton, with 1,798 m prominence.
Shell Grotto, Margate
The Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, is a Grade I listed underground passageway lined with about 4.6 million seashells in mosaic, opened as an attraction in 1838.