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Karban-I
Karban-I (Карбан-I) is a kurgan necropolis on the Katun River in the Northern Altai, Russia, with Bulan-Koby culture burials radiocarbon-dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD and early Scythian mounds.
Kardamis/Ardanis Akron
Kardamis/Ardanis Akron, an ancient promontory and harbor on the Libyan coast recorded by Strabo and the Stadiasmus; identified with Marsa al-Muraysah and listed in Pleiades as a place by D.J. Mattingly.
Karimunjawa-Jepara-Muria Biosphere Reserve
Karimunjawa-Jepara-Muria Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in Central Java, Indonesia, designated 28 October 2020; 1,236,083.97 ha of islands, marine waters, and Mount Muria forests, including Karimunjawa National Park.
Karkabhat
Karkabhat: megalithic burial site near Balod, Chhattisgarh, India, also called Kahrabhat; over 800 cairn and menhir graves excavated 1990-91 by A.K. Sharma, dated to the first half of the first millennium BC, with no skeletons found.
Karkinitska and Dzharylgatska Bays
Karkinitska and Dzharylgatska Bays (Каркінітська та Джарилгацька затоки), Ramsar Site no. 114 in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast and Crimea, designated 1976, 147,557 ha of shallow northern Black Sea bays, a Key Biodiversity Area and Important Marine Mammal Area, occupied since 2022.
Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden
Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden, Worcester, Western Cape: SANBI's second-oldest national botanical garden, founded 1921 at Whitehill near Matjiesfontein, moved to Worcester in 1945, renamed 2001; 154 ha garden for arid and succulent flora.
Karori Cemetery
Karori Cemetery is a public cemetery in the Wellington suburb of Karori, New Zealand, opened in 1891 and holding the graves of roughly 83,000 people.
Karrakatta Cemetery
Karrakatta Cemetery, opened in 1899, is Western Australia's largest and most historic cemetery, located in the suburb of Karrakatta about seven kilometers west of Perth's city center.
Kart Club
Kart Club (제주카트클럽, Jeju Kart Club) is a karting venue in Hallim-eup, Jeju City, South Korea; first kart rink on Jeju, 25,000 KRW per 15-minute solo session, children from 2nd grade can drive.
Karting center
Картинг центр (karting center, kartodrom) is a rental go-kart venue with indoor or outdoor tracks, kart classes from 4.5 to 13 hp, 10-minute sessions, safety briefings, and age/height limits, common across Russia, Ukraine, and neighboring countries.
Karwar Aquarium
Karwar Aquarium: public aquarium in Karwar, Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India, built 1989 by the Zilla Parishad beside Rabindranath Tagore Beach near the Naval Museum; Zilla Panchayat-run, ₹50 entry, reported permanently closed.
Kasbah
Kasbah (Arabic qasaba, citadel): a fortress or fortified district in a North African city, built mainly of adobe. Distinct from a ksar (fortified village); the Kasbah of Algiers is a 1992 World Heritage site.
Kasbah of Algiers
Kasbah of Algiers (Casbah d'Alger, قصبة الجزائر): the historic medina of Algiers, Algeria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992 (criteria ii, v), 54.7 ha, Ottoman-era hillside old town with about 50,000 residents facing conservation challenges.
Kasino Quiberon
Kasino Quiberon, also known as Casino de Quiberon, is a casino in Quiberon, Brittany, France, opened in 1977, offering slot machines, roulette, blackjack, and poker, with an ocean-view restaurant.
Kasrawad Mound
Kasrawad Mound (Itbardi), an ASI-protected excavated site in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, on the Narmada near Maheshwar: eleven 2nd-century B.C. brick stupas of a short-lived Buddhist monastery, excavated 1936-39.
Kasta tomb
Kasta tomb (Amphipolis Tomb), large Macedonian-era burial monument under the Kasta Mound near Amphipolis, Greece; chambers announced 2014; sphinxes, caryatids, Persephone mosaic; 497 m marble enclosure; occupant unknown; public opening planned 2028.
Kastell Aalen
Kastell Aalen (Ala II Flavia miliaria fort) was the largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps, on the Raetian Limes: 6.07 ha, 1,000 horsemen, built about 160 CE, administrative center of northwest Raetia.
Kastell Op de Hoge Woerd
Castellum Hoge Woerd (Kastell Op de Hoge Woerd) is a 2015 full-scale reconstruction of a Roman fort at De Meern, Utrecht, on the Lower German Limes, housing Museum Hoge Woerd and the Roman ship De Meern 1.
Kastoria Aquarium
Kastoria Aquarium (Greek: Ενυδρείο Καστοριάς), named for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, is a freshwater aquarium in Kastoria, Greece, opened in 2012 and billed as the Balkans' first.
Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta, also called the Olgas or Mount Olga, is a group of 28 conglomerate rock domes 32 km west of Uluru in Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, sacred to Aṉangu and jointly managed since the 1985 handback.
Kathmandu Valley
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Himalayan valley whose seven monument zones (three Durbar Squares, Swayambhu, Bauddhanath, Pashupati, Changu Narayan) form a 1979 UNESCO World Heritage serial site of Newar Hindu-Buddhist heritage.
Kathu Cobra Show
The Kathu Cobra Show is a small interactive snake show in the Kathu district of Phuket, Thailand, where handlers invite visitors to hold king cobras, pythons, and native Thai snakes.
Katla UNESCO Global Geopark
Katla UNESCO Global Geopark (Katla Jarðvangur) is Iceland's first geopark, designated by UNESCO in 2015 on the south coast around Katla volcano, Mýrdalsjökull, and Eyjafjallajökull, covering 954,200 ha with the Eldgjá and Laki flood lava sites.
Katmai National Park and Preserve
Katmai National Park and Preserve, established in 1918, is a national park in southwest Alaska protecting the 1912 Novarupta eruption site and the brown bears of Brooks Camp.
Kato Phournos Tomb
Kato Phournos is a Mycenaean tholos tomb at Mycenae, one of Wace's Group II with Panagia and the Lion Tomb, about 10 m in diameter, dated LH IIA-B, with burial pits and a 1922 De Jong plan.
Katon-Karagay Biosphere Reserve
Katon-Karagay Biosphere Reserve, Kazakhstan, UNESCO MAB site designated 2014; 1,631,940 ha in the southern Altai; core is Katon-Karagay National Park; forms Great Altay Transboundary Reserve with Russia's Katunskiy reserve.
Katsimidi
Katsimidi (Greek: Κατσιμίδι) is an 849 m peak on Mount Parnitha in Attica, Greece, crowned by the remains of an ancient Athenian fort and watchtower controlling the Dekeleia pass.
Katunsky Biosphere Reserve
Katunsky Biosphere Reserve (Катунский биосферный заповедник), a zapovednik in the Altai Republic, Russia, established 25 July 1991 on the Katun Ridge near Mount Belukha; UNESCO World Heritage and MAB biosphere site, snow leopard habitat.
Katy Trail State Park
Katy Trail State Park, the Katy Trail, is Missouri's 240-mile crushed-limestone rail-trail on the former MKT Railroad between Clinton and Machens, the longest developed rail-trail in the United States, with 26 trailheads and four restored depots.
Katyń Memorial (Jersey City)
Katyń Memorial (Katyń 1940 Monument), a bronze statue by Andrzej Pityński at Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, inaugurated 1991, commemorating the 1940 NKVD Katyn massacre; site of the 2018 relocation dispute.