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Makoshika State Park
Makoshika State Park (Lakota maco sica, "bad land") is Montana's largest state park, 11,538 acres of Hell Creek Formation badlands near Glendive with Triceratops, T. rex, and rare Thescelosaurus fossils, a K-T boundary exposure, Buzzard Day, and over 100,000 annual visitors.
Makri St. peristyle
The Makri St. peristyle is an excavated ancient stoa at Makri 8 in Athens, identified by John Travlos as the Palladion, a lawcourt for unintentional homicide.
Mala Bay
Mala Bay (馬拉灣水上樂園) is a seasonal water park at Lihpao Resort in Houli, Taichung, Taiwan, opened in 2000 under Yamay Leisure World. Known for the Big Wave pool, Southeast Asia's first large open-air artificial wave pool with 2.4 m waves.
Malacky
Malacky (Malatzka, Malaczka) is a town in the Záhorie region of western Slovakia, seat of Malacky District, first recorded in 1206, with 17,858 inhabitants, notable for Pálffy-era monuments and rich archaeology.
Malagarasi - Moyowosi
Malagarasi-Moyowosi (Malagarasi-Muyovozi), FEOW ecoregion 543 and Tanzania's first Ramsar site (2000, 3,250,000 ha), a floodplain wetland complex in Tanzania and Burundi draining into Lake Tanganyika, with endemic cichlids and Shoebills.
Malagarasi-Muyovozi Wetlands
Malagarasi-Muyovozi Wetlands: Tanzania's first Ramsar Site (designated 2000), a 3.25-million-hectare riverine floodplain in northwest Tanzania, one of the world's largest Ramsar sites, meeting all eight Ramsar criteria.
Malahy Al Fustat Land
Malahy Al Fustat Land (ملاهي الفسطاط لاند), also called Malahy Al Maamoura Land, is a theme park in Giza Governorate, Egypt, near Haraniya and Manib on the Nile's west bank, close to the Adam Henein Museum and Wissa Wassef Art Center.
Mălăieşti
Mălăieşti names two Romanian fortified sites: the late 14th-century Sărăcin family fortress in Hunedoara's Hațeg region, and the Trajanic Roman fort and baths near Sfârleanca, Prahova, occupied about 102–118 AD.
Malata
Malata (Milata in the Peutinger Table), also Bononia Malata, a Roman Danube fortress in Pannonia Inferior at Banoštor, Serbia; Celtic-origin settlement, port of Sirmium, garrisoned until after 400 AD.
Malbork-Wielbark
Malbork-Wielbark (Wielbark, Willenberg) is the eponymous Gothic-related Wielbark Culture cemetery near Malbork, northern Poland: over 2200 burials in 1.7 ha, used from the 3rd/2nd century BCE to the early 5th century CE.
Malchittu nuragic temple
Malchittu (Tempietto di Malchittu) is a Middle Bronze Age megaron temple near Arzachena, Sardinia, the island's oldest and the area's only Nuragic religious building, excavated by Ferrarese Ceruti in 1964.
Maleme
Maleme (Μάλεμε), a village in Platanias, Chania, western Crete, is known for a Late Minoan IIIB built tholos tomb on the Kafkala hill, the only known Mycenaean tholos tomb with a square chamber and pyramidal roof, excavated by Davaras in 1966.
Malia (archaeological site)
Malia (Minoan palace site, Crete): Bronze Age archaeological site discovered 1915 by Joseph Hazzidakis, excavated by the French School at Athens since 1921; UNESCO Minoan Palatial Centres component with Protopalatial and Neopalatial palace phases, Quartier Mu, and central court oriented to the rising sun.
Malika R.E.124
Malika R.E.124 (เมืองมัลลิกา ร.ศ. ๑๒๔), or Mallika City 1905, is a living-history attraction in Sai Yok, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, opened 29 October 2016, recreating Siamese life under King Chulalongkorn after the abolition of slavery, with period costume, holed-coin currency, and Thai houses on 60 rai.
Malindi-Watamu Arabuko Sokoke Biosphere Reserve
Malindi-Watamu Arabuko Sokoke Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in coastal Kenya designated 1979, spanning 487,278 ha of marine and terrestrial habitats including the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, East Africa's largest remaining coastal forest.
Malivur Fairy-Tale Country
Казачная краіна Малівур, better known as Сказочная страна Маливур, is a fairy-tale theme park in Dobrenevo, Lahoysk District, Belarus, near Minsk, with dobrovity houses and the fire-breathing dragon Sky.
Malling
Malling: name shared by several places, West Malling in Kent, a Sussex Domesday manor, a Flavian Roman fort by the Lake of Menteith in Scotland, and a village south of Aarhus, Denmark.
Maloti-Drakensberg Park (site)
Maloti-Drakensberg Park: transboundary mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site (Lesotho and South Africa), inscribed 2000, extended 2013; 249,313 ha of Drakensberg escarpment, San rock art, endemic species, and Southern Africa's principal water production area.
Malpasito
Malpasito is a Late Classic (c. 600-900 AD) Zoque archaeological site in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico, with 53 sandstone buildings on 14 hectares, a T-shaped ballcourt, steam bath, Acropolis, and petroglyphs; distinct from Olmec and Maya sites and from the Veracruz and Chiapas places of the same name.
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary (Santuario de Fauna y Flora Malpelo) is a Colombian no-take marine protected area around Malpelo Island, 506 km offshore; a 2006 UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for shark aggregations and endemic island wildlife.
Malta National Aquarium
Malta National Aquarium, Qawra, St. Paul's Bay: Malta's only public aquarium, opened October 2013 in a starfish-shaped building; 51 tanks, 250+ species, glass tunnel, €15.4 million EU-Government-private project.
Maltepe (Pergamon)
Maltepe Tumulus (Maltepe Tümülüsü), a Roman Imperial burial mound at Pergamon, Bergama, Türkiye; second largest Pergamene tumulus at about 170 m diameter, 30 m high, with a three-part grave chamber aligned with the Traianeum; distinct from Maltepe sites near Phokaia, Kilise Tepe, and Sandıklı.
Mamayev Kurgan (Мамаев курган)
Mamayev Kurgan (Мамаев курган) is the Volgograd hill, wartime Height 102.0, central to the Battle of Stalingrad, now the memorial complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" with Vuchetich's 85-meter statue The Motherland Calls!, opened 1967, on UNESCO's tentative list.
Mamayeva Sloboda
Mamayeva Sloboda (Мамаєва Слобода) is a private open-air living-history museum in Kyiv, a 9.2-hectare replica Cossack settlement with 98 structures, opened 9 July 2009 near the Lybid River source.
Mamertine Prison
Mamertine Prison (Carcer Tullianum), Rome's ancient state prison at the Capitoline foot, held Jugurtha, Vercingetorix, and Catilinarian conspirators; Peter and Paul imprisonment is medieval tradition, not first-century evidence.
Mamirauá
Mamirauá (RDS Mamirauá) is Brazil's first sustainable development reserve, a 1,124,000 ha várzea flooded-forest protected area in Amazonas, a Ramsar site and part of the UNESCO Central Amazon Conservation Complex, known for community-managed pirarucu fisheries.
Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave in Mammoth Cave National Park, central Kentucky, is the world's longest known cave system, with 426 miles of surveyed passages and over 130 cave-dwelling species.
Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve
Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve, or Mammoth Cave Biosphere Region: UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve designated September 26, 1990 in Kentucky, covering 909,328 acres in six counties around Mammoth Cave National Park, protecting the karst watershed of the world's longest cave.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave National Park is a 52,830-acre U.S. national park in Kentucky protecting Mammoth Cave, the world's longest mapped cave (628 km), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981 and Biosphere Reserve core since 1990.
Man and the Biosphere Programme
UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, launched 1971, coordinates the World Network of Biosphere Reserves: 797 sites in 145 countries with core, buffer, and transition zones reconciling conservation and sustainable development.