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Mostaland Parc
Mostaland Parc is an amusement park and zoo opened 13 July 2017 at Kharouba near Mostaganem, Algeria, on the RN 11; 54 hectares, 200 million DA investment, 80-cage zoo, 12-hectare aquatic basin, 5,000-space parking.
Mosul Amusement Park
Mosul Amusement Park (Arabic: مدينة العاب الموصل, Madinat al Alab) is Mosul's largest theme park, founded in the 1970s and reopened in late 2017 after ISIS wrecked it.
Mosylon Emporion
Mosylon Emporion (Mosyllon, Mosullon), ancient Somali-coast port of trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, between Mundu and the Spice Market; chief export cassia; usually identified with Bosaso.
Mother Farm
Mother Farm (マザー牧場, Mother Bokujo) is a 250-hectare tourist ranch and theme park on Mount Kano in Futtsu, Chiba, Japan, founded in 1962 by Hisayoshi Maeda; known for sheep shows, flower fields, strawberry picking, and Tokyo Bay views.
Motiongate Dubai
Motiongate Dubai is a Hollywood-inspired theme park at Dubai Parks and Resorts in Jebel Ali, Dubai, opened in 2016 with 27 rides based on Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks, and Lionsgate films.
Motithang Takin Preserve
Motithang Takin Preserve, also called Royal Takin Preserve, is a fenced wildlife enclosure in Motithang, Thimphu, Bhutan, holding the national animal, the Bhutan takin (Budorcas taxicolor whitei). It began as a mini-zoo closed by the Fourth King; the habituated takin stayed, and a semi-natural preserve was created.
Moulting Lagoon
Moulting Lagoon, a 4,507-hectare Tasmanian estuary between Swansea and Bicheno, Ramsar-listed 16 November 1982, is Tasmania's key black swan breeding site and a major waterbird and fish habitat.
Mound Containing Ancient Relics of the Gupta Period.
Mound containing ancient relics of the Gupta period, Bilsar (Bilsarh), Etah district, Uttar Pradesh; ASI centrally protected monument since 1928. Gupta-era temple pillars, Cunningham's 1870s record, and 2021 finds of a staircase and Shankhalipi inscription of Kumaragupta I (Shri Mahendraditya).
Mound Locally Known As Ora Jhar Situated On The Road From Balrampur Near The Ancient Remains Of Sahet Mahet
Ora Jhar (Orajhar, Oda Jhar) is an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound at Ghooghulpur, Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh, near the ancient remains of Sahet-Mahet (Sravasti), one of three protected mounds with Penahia Jhar and Kharahua Jhar.
Mound Of Brick Ruins
Mound of Brick Ruins, Tandwa (Sravasti district, Uttar Pradesh): centrally protected ASI monument no. 3290, an 800 x 300 ft brick mound with a large stupa identified by Cunningham as the relic stupa of Kasyapa Buddha, also called Sita-dohar.
Mound, Part of Which Appears To Be the Remains of A Buddhist Stupa Or A Temple
Centrally protected ASI mound at Sankara, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh; about 700 feet long, named from Carlleyle's 1870s suspicion it holds Buddhist stupa or temple remains; unexcavated.
Moundou (site)
Moundou (site): an ancient toponym recorded in the 2nd-century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and catalogued in the Pleiades gazetteer; distinct from Moundou, Chad (founded 1923) and Moundou, Gabon.
Mouneyres Gallo-Roman villa
Mouneyres Gallo-Roman villa (Villa gallo-romaine de Mouneyres), a 5th-century Roman rural estate at Sarbazan, Landes, France, north of Saint-Pierre church, with atrium, mosaics, and a balneum; mosaics displayed at Arthous abbey.
Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve
Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve (Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region, MABR), a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 2000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, covering about 1,200 km2, governed by a VIU-Parksville partnership after a near-withdrawal in 2010.
Mount Aspiring National Park
Mount Aspiring National Park (Tititea), a 355,543 ha national park in New Zealand's Southern Alps, formed December 1964, third largest and least developed of 14 national parks, part of Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage Area.
Mount Caburn hill fort
Mount Caburn hill fort (The Caburn) is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort near Lewes, East Sussex, occupied from c.300 BC, fortified c.100 BC and again around AD 43, refortified in the mid 12th century, and scheduled since 1933.
Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois)
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois: Catholic cemetery consecrated 1901, 214 acres, 238,000+ interments; home of the Bishops' Mausoleum with Cardinals Bernardin and Cody, and graves of Al Capone, Giancana, and Nitti.
Mount Changbaishan UNESCO Global Geopark
Mount Changbaishan UNESCO Global Geopark (长白山), in southeast Jilin Province, China, designated 2024; 272,383 ha around a composite volcano whose millennium eruption and Tianchi caldera lake anchor its geoheritage.
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 Desert Island
Mount Desert Island (Pemetic) is a roughly 100-square-mile island on the Maine coast, the largest in the state, named by Champlain in 1604 and home to most of Acadia National Park and Cadillac Mountain.
Mount Edgcumbe
Mount Edgcumbe, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall: former seat of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, a Grade I registered 205-hectare park and garden with a 1547-1550 Tudor house, Italian, French, and English gardens, and the UK's foremost camellia collection, a country park since 1971.
Mount Elgon Biosphere Reserve
Mount Elgon Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site around the extinct Mount Elgon volcano on the Kenya–Uganda border; designated 2003/2005, made Africa's second transboundary biosphere reserve in 2023, covering over 5,900 km².
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area (峨眉山—乐山大佛): mixed UNESCO World Heritage site in Sichuan, China, inscribed 1996; first Buddhist temple in China, 71 m Leshan Buddha, 3,200 plant species.
Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park, Tasmania: 15,881 ha park near Hobart, gazetted 1916 with Freycinet as Tasmania's first national parks, home of Russell Falls, the Tarn Shelf, fagus autumn color, and Mount Mawson ski field; in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area since 2013.
Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve
Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve (白山ユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB site in central Japan designated 1980 and expanded 2016, covers 199,329 ha across four prefectures around the 2,702 m volcano Mount Hakusan.
Mount Herzl
Mount Herzl (Har Herzl, Har Hazikaron) is Jerusalem's hill holding Israel's national cemetery, military cemetery, National Memorial Hall, and Herzl Museum; Herzl's remains were reburied there in August 1949 under the 1949 Reburial Law.
Mount Igueldo Amusement Park
Mount Igueldo Amusement Park (Parque de Atracciones Monte Igueldo) is a 1911 vintage park on Mount Igueldo, San Sebastián, reached by the 1912 Basque Country funicular, home of the 1928 Montaña Suiza, the world's oldest operating steel roller coaster, declared a Monumental Site in 2014.
Mount Judi
Mount Judi (Cudi Dağı, al-Jūdiyy), a 2,114 m massif in Şırnak Province, southeastern Turkey near the Tigris, named in Quran 11:44 as Noah's ark resting place, distinct from Mount Ararat.
Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest mountain (5,268 ft per USGS; NPS lists 5,269 ft) in Baxter State Park; Baxter Peak is the northern terminus of the 2,197.9-mile Appalachian Trail; name means "Greatest Mountain" in Penobscot.
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 1997) in central Kenya protecting Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak at 5,199 m, its glaciers, afro-alpine flora, and the Lewa–Ngare Ndare lowland extension.