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Montecristo
Montecristo, Isola di Montecristo: uninhabited Italian island in the Tuscan Archipelago, 10.4 sq km, 63 km offshore; state nature reserve since 1971, famed for Dumas's novel, 700-year-old holm oaks, and strictly limited visits.
Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is a sand island 40 km from Brisbane, the world's third largest sand island, mostly Gheebulum Kunungai National Park, jointly managed with Quandamooka people, home to the Tangalooma Wrecks.
Morrocoy National Park
Morrocoy National Park (Parque Nacional Morrocoy) is a marine and coastal national park in Falcón state, Venezuela, created in 1974 and known for beaches and snorkeling.
Morton National Park
Morton National Park, NSW, Australia: large national park gazetted 1967, successor to the 1938 Morton Primitive Reserve; sandstone plateaus, gorges, Fitzroy Falls, Bundanoon, Budawangs wilderness, Pigeon House Mountain (Didthul).
Mount Cook National Park
Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park (Mount Cook National Park), New Zealand alpine park established 1953, 70,728 ha, home to Aoraki/Mount Cook (3,724 m), Tasman Glacier, Hooker Valley Track, and Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage Area.
Mount Scenery National Park
Mount Scenery National Park, Saba, Dutch Caribbean: protected area established 2018 covering 26% of the island around Mount Scenery, the 887 m highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, managed by the Saba Conservation Foundation.
Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா)
Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா), a 103.23 km² park in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, forms the core of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (688.59 km², declared 2007) at the Kerala-Karnataka-Tamil Nadu tri-junction, linked to Bandipur, Wayanad and Mukurthi.
Nagarhole National Park (ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ)
Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv Gandhi National Park, ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ) is a 643 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka's Western Ghats, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, adjoining Bandipur and Wayanad, with high tiger and elephant densities and heavy human–wildlife conflict.
Nahanni National Park Reserve
Nahanni National Park Reserve (Nahʔą Dehé), Northwest Territories, Canada: UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978, expanded 2009 to about 30,000 km2, home of the South Nahanni River, Virginia Falls, and Canada's largest tufa mounds.
Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park, Kenya's first national park (gazetted 1946, first in East Africa), a 117 km² savannah park 7–10 km from Nairobi's city center, fenced except on the open southern Mbagathi River boundary toward the Kitengela plains, home to black rhinos, lions, and 400+ bird species.
National park systems of Latin America and the Caribbean
The national park systems of Latin America and the Caribbean are country-by-country networks of legally designated protected areas covering 21.4% of the region, begun in the 1930s.
National parks of Central America
The national parks of Central America are the protected wildland systems of seven republics from Belize to Panama, with 554 declared protected areas covering 25% of the region's territory.
National parks of Egypt
The national parks of Egypt are protected areas designated under Law 102 of 1983, covering about 10% of the country, including Ras Muhammad and Wadi El Hitan.
National parks of Madagascar
The national parks of Madagascar are a network of terrestrial and marine protected areas run by Madagascar National Parks since 1991, tracing back to French reserves created in 1927.
National parks of New Zealand
New Zealand's national parks are 13 protected areas covering about 11% of the country, governed by the National Parks Act 1980 and administered by the Department of Conservation.
National parks of the Caribbean islands
The national parks of the Caribbean islands are protected natural areas across Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles.
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia are state-designated protected areas. Iran manages a tiered reserve hierarchy, covering 16,676,734 hectares, while Saudi Arabia has 31.26 percent coverage.
National parks of the United Kingdom
The national parks of the United Kingdom are 15 protected landscapes, 10 in England, 3 in Wales, 2 in Scotland, designated mainly under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, first the Peak District in 1951, latest the South Downs in 2010.
National parks of West Africa and the Sahel
The national parks of West Africa and the Sahel are the region's nationally designated protected areas, part of a network covering about 9.6 percent of West Africa.
Nelson Lakes National Park
Nelson Lakes National Park: South Island, New Zealand park established 1956 around glacial Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa; 101,880 ha of northernmost Southern Alps, beech forest, St Arnaud gateway.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), northern Tanzania: 809,440 ha multiple land use World Heritage site (1979) holding the world's largest unbroken caldera, Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoralism, ~25,000 large animals, and relocation disputes.
Niokolo-Koba National Park
Niokolo-Koba National Park is a vast savanna park in southeastern Senegal along the Gambia River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, home to one of West Africa's last viable lion populations.
North York Moors
North York Moors: upland heather moorland area in north-east Yorkshire, England, protected as a National Park since 12 February 1952. Covers 1,436 km², holds England's largest continuous tract of upland heather moorland, and is an International Dark Sky Reserve.
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park (Danish: Nationalparken i Nord- og Østgrønland) is the world's largest national park, a 972,000 km² protected area in northeastern Greenland, established in 1974.
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a national park of primary rainforest in northern Republic of the Congo, created in 1993 and home to thousands of forest elephants and great apes.
Nourlangie Rock
Nourlangie Rock (Burrungkuy) is a large sandstone outlier in Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory, known for Aboriginal rock art galleries including depictions of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, and early European sailing ships.
Otway National Park
Great Otway National Park (Otway National Park), Victoria, Australia: coastal and forest park along the Great Ocean Road from Torquay to Princetown; established 1981, expanded 2002; waterfalls, Great Ocean Walk, managed by Parks Victoria and GORCAPA.
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is a Parks Canada reserve on Vancouver Island's west coast in Nuu-chah-nulth territories, with three units: Long Beach, the West Coast Trail, and the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound.
Parc national du W (Niger)
Parc national du W (Niger): 220,000-ha national park in Tillabéri, named for the W-shaped Niger River bend, created 1954, World Heritage since 1996, core of the W-Arly-Pendjari Complex.
Parc national Tsimanampesotse
Parc national Tsimanampesotse (Tsimanampetsotsa National Park), a national park and Ramsar site (no. 962, 1998) in Atsimo Andrefana, southwestern Madagascar, protecting alkaline Lake Tsimanampetsotsa, spiny forest, karst caves, and the blind fish Typhleotris madagascariensis.