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Dudhsagar Falls
Dudhsagar Falls (Sea of Milk), a four-tiered ~310 m waterfall on the Mandovi River in Goa's Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary near the Karnataka border; reached via Kulem, with regulated jeep and guided-trek access.
Dulce
Río Dulce (sweet river), Guatemalan river, about 42 km, draining Lake Izabal to the Caribbean at Livingston, Izabal; protected since 1955 as 13,000-ha Río Dulce National Park with Castillo de San Felipe de Lara and manatee habitat.
Dunn's River Falls
Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Jamaica: a terraced travertine waterfall emptying into the Caribbean Sea, climbed in guided human chains, owned by the UDC, reopened after Hurricane Melissa in November 2025.
Dunton Hot Springs
Dunton Hot Springs is an all-inclusive luxury resort in a restored 1885 Colorado ghost town on the West Fork Dolores River, with 42°C calcium bicarbonate springs, 13-14 historic cabins, and no day-use access.
Duse Bay
Duse Bay is a bay on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, between View Point and Tabarin Peninsula, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Duse.
Dutch Harbor
Dutch Harbor, on Amaknak Island at Unalaska, Alaska, is the leading U.S. fishing port by volume for over 25 years and the site of the June 1942 Japanese bombing.
Dutch India
Dutch India: VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) trading settlements in India, 1602-1824, centered on Coromandel Coast forts at Pulicat and Nagapattinam, trading textiles for spices, ending with the 1824 Anglo-Dutch treaty.
Dyke Marsh
Dyke Marsh (Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve) is a 485-acre freshwater tidal wetland on the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, part of George Washington Memorial Parkway, degraded by 1940-1972 gravel dredging and now slated for restoration.
East China Sea
East China Sea: western Pacific marginal sea bounded by China, Taiwan, the Ryukyus, Kyushu, and Korea; 0.77 million km², Kuroshio transport 19–24 Sv, major fisheries, and 35% of global petroleum shipments (2023).
East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, is the Atlantic-facing coast from Maine to Florida with a continental climate.
East Indies
The East Indies, also known as the Indies, is a European term once covering India, Further India, and the Malay Archipelago, distinguished from the West Indies.
East Korea Bay
East Korea Bay is a bay on North Korea's eastern coast, opening onto the East Sea (Sea of Japan), distinct from Korea Bay on the Yellow Sea side; labeled on U.S. military and NOAA maps and an SST anomaly hot spot.
East Pacific Rise
The East Pacific Rise is a fast-spreading mid-ocean ridge on the eastern Pacific floor where new oceanic crust forms as the Pacific plate separates from the Cocos and Nazca plates.
East River
The East River is a 16-mile (26 km) tidal strait in New York City connecting Upper New York Bay to Long Island Sound, separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Brooklyn and Queens, crossed by eight bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge.
East Siberian Sea
East Siberian Sea (Восточно-Сибирское море), a shallow Arctic Ocean marginal sea between the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island; 913,000 km², mean depth 54 m, most ice-bound Russian Arctic sea, nearly 80% of world subsea permafrost.
East Texas Gulf
East Texas Gulf (FEOW ecoregion 140) is a temperate coastal rivers freshwater ecoregion covering central Texas from eastern New Mexico, defined by the Brazos and Colorado watersheds and Matagorda Bay, with about 100 fish species and few endemics.
Eastern Borneo
Eastern Borneo is a freshwater ecoregion of eastern Borneo, entirely within Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, defined by a distinct fish assemblage centered on the Mahakam River basin.
Eastern Congolian swamp forests
Eastern Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'est du Congo): tropical swamp forest ecoregion on the left bank of the Congo River in DRC and Republic of Congo, 9.29 million ha, bonobo habitat, part of the world's largest tropical peatland complex.
Eastern Continental Divide
The Eastern Continental Divide is the drainage divide of the eastern United States separating Atlantic Ocean watersheds (Susquehanna, Potomac, Roanoke) from Mississippi River, Gulf of Mexico drainage, running partly through the Appalachian Mountains.
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture (EHJV), Plan conjoint des habitats de l'Est, is a Canadian waterfowl habitat partnership founded in 1989 under NAWMP, covering Ontario through Newfoundland and Labrador, 315 million hectares, 30% of Canada's wetlands.
Eastern Hudson Bay - Ungava
Eastern Hudson Bay - Ungava, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 113, a Temperate coastal rivers unit in northern Quebec and Labrador draining to Hudson Bay, Ungava Bay, and the Labrador Sea; no endemic fishes, Arctic char runs, Threatened and Endangered beluga stocks.
Eastern Iberia
Eastern Iberia (FEOW ecoregion 414, Ibero-Mediterranean ecoregion) is a freshwater ecoregion of northeastern Spain, Andorra, and France, covering Mediterranean-draining basins including the Ebro, Ter, and Júcar, with high Iberian fish endemism.
Eastern Mediterranean
The Eastern Mediterranean is the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, covering the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, and Levantine Seas. A Tethys relict bordered by ten states, it has anti-estuarine circulation, giant offshore gas fields, and heavy Lessepsian invasions.
Eastern Syvash
Eastern Syvash (Ramsar site 769) is a 165,000 ha shallow hypersaline lagoon wetland in Kherson and Crimea, Ukraine, designated 1997, vital for migratory waterbirds, occupied by Russia since 2014 and fully since 2022.
Eastern Taiwan
Eastern Taiwan (FEOW ecoregion 758) is a freshwater ecoregion covering basins east of Taiwan's Chungyang Range draining to the Philippine Sea, from Eluanbi to Wushibi, including Green Island and Orchid Island, with main rivers Lanyang and Peinan and few endemic fishes.
Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages
The Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion (ID 638) spanning China and Korea, covering the Yalu River basin and streams draining into Korea Bay and the Yellow Sea.
Ebro
The Ebro (Spanish río Ebro, Latin Iberus) is one of the five great rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, rising in the Cantabrian Mountains and the only one flowing to the Mediterranean.
Eburneo
Eburneo (FEOW ecoregion 514) is a West African freshwater ecoregion covering the Comoé, Bandama, and Sassandra basins of Côte d'Ivoire, with Nilo-Sudanian fish fauna, low endemism, and Endangered status.
Eclipse Sound
Eclipse Sound (Détroit d'Eclipse) is a channel in Nunavut, Canada, between northern Baffin Island and Bylot Island, a narwhal summering area and shipping route for the Mary River mine.
Eel River (California)
Eel River (California): third-largest California watershed (~3,684 sq mi), wild and scenic since 1972/1981; its Scott and Cape Horn dams form the Potter Valley Project, slated for removal.