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Tallest waterfalls by continent
A survey of the tallest waterfall on each continent, from Angel Falls in Venezuela to Tugela Falls in South Africa, covering their heights, definitions, and disputed measurements.
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is Florida's largest open-water estuary, a shallow Y-shaped embayment of about 1,036 km2 on the Gulf coast, home to Port Tampa Bay, the state's largest port, and managed by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program for seagrass and water quality recovery.
Tamu Massif
Tamu Massif is an extinct undersea volcanic mountain on the Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific, once called Earth's largest single volcano; 2019 magnetic data show it formed by ridge spreading, not a shield volcano.
Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages
Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 567) is a tropical coastal-river freshwater ecoregion in Kenya and northern Tanzania, covering the Tana and Athi/Galana-Sabaki basins plus smaller Indian Ocean coastal rivers, with a depauperate fish fauna, rich bird and reptile life, and the Tana Delta Ramsar site.
Tanganyika
Tanganyika names Lake Tanganyika, Africa's deepest and longest lake, shared by Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC; about 671 km long, 1,470 m deep, holding ~17% of the world's liquid freshwater, plus the Zambian Ramsar site of that name.
Tangra Yumco
Tangra Yumco (当惹雍错), a large brackish terminal lake in Nyima County, Nagqu, Tibet, at about 4,540 m elevation; deepest lake on the Tibetan Plateau (230 m), Bon sacred lake, with shorelines 185 m above the present level.
Tapajós
Tapajós, major clearwater Amazon tributary in Brazil, formed by the Teles Pires and Juruena rivers; 13,500 m3/s mean discharge, a sediment-trapping ria lower course, gold-mining mercury issues, and major planned dams.
Tapajos - Juruena
Tapajos - Juruena is a freshwater ecoregion in Brazil, covering the Rio Tapajós basin, a clearwater Amazon tributary with nearly a quarter of its fish species endemic.
Tapti River
The Tapti River, also called Tapi, is a 724 km west-flowing river of peninsular India, rising in the Satpura range in Madhya Pradesh and emptying into the Gulf of Khambhat.
Tarim
Tarim: the Tarim River (塔里木河), China's longest inland river at 1,321 km, and its endorheic basin around the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang; fed by Khotan, Yarkand, and Aqsu rivers, historically ending at Lop Nor or Taitema Lake, with ecological water diversion restoring the lower reaches since 2000.
Tärnasjön
Tärnasjön (Lake Tärna), Ramsar Site no. 29 in Västerbotten, Sweden, designated 5 December 1974; a 23,236 ha alpine lake on the upper Umeälven with the southernmost palsa mires in Sweden.
Tasman Sea
Tasman Sea: marginal sea of the South Pacific between Australia and New Zealand, about 2,300,000 km², named for Abel Tasman. Formed by seafloor spreading 60–80 Ma; dominated by the East Australian Current and increasingly by marine heatwaves.
Tasmantid Seamount Chain
Tasmantid Seamount Chain: age-progressive hotspot seamount chain in the Tasman Basin off eastern Australia, running over 1,300 km, younging southward from >50 Ma to ~6 Ma, parallel to the Lord Howe chain.
Tathlina
Tathlina Lake, a large shallow 573 km² lake in the southern Northwest Territories, Canada, on the Kakisa River; known for its declining commercial walleye fishery and Ka'a'gee Tu First Nation importance.
Taupō (lake)
Lake Taupō (Te Taupō-nui-a-Tia), New Zealand's largest lake, about 620 km², fills the caldera of the Taupō volcano formed by the Ōruanui eruption roughly 25,500 years ago; drains via the Waikato River.
Tay, Firth of
The Tay (Firth of) is a 12-mile long and 6-mile wide Antarctic sound, running northwest to southeast, between the northeast side of Dundee Island and the eastern part of Joinville Island.
Tayabas Bay
Tayabas Bay, a 2,213 km² bay in southern Luzon, Philippines, bounded by Quezon and the Bondoc Peninsula and opening to Marinduque and the Sibuyan Sea; a major CALABARZON fishing ground with the Dalahican port at Lucena City.
Taymyr
Lake Taymyr (Ozero Taymyr, Taimyr) is the largest lake of the Russian Arctic, a shallow 4,560 km2 tundra lake on the Taymyr Peninsula, ice-covered over nine months yearly, with the Verkhnyaya Taymyra inflow and Nizhnyaya Taymyra outflow.
Taz
Taz (Таз), a 1,401 km river in Western Siberia's Yamalo-Nenets Okrug flowing from the Siberian Uvaly to the Kara Sea's Tazovskaya Guba; a pristine permafrost river with 150,000 km² basin, spring snowmelt flood, and 815 km of navigation.
Teays - Old Ohio
Teays - Old Ohio (FEOW ecoregion 150) is a Nearctic temperate upland rivers freshwater ecoregion covering the Ohio River watershed across ten US states, named for the preglacial Teays River, with 208 fish and 122 mussel species.
Teesta River (তিস্তা নদী)
Teesta River (তিস্তা নদী), a transboundary Himalayan river of Sikkim, West Bengal, and Bangladesh joining the Brahmaputra; known for the unsigned 2011 India-Bangladesh water-sharing agreement, the Gajaldoba and Dalia barrages, Sikkim hydropower dams, and Bangladesh's largest irrigation project.
Tehek
Tehek Lake is a lake in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, Canada, near Amarulik and Third Portage lakes, mapped by the Geological Survey of Canada for Woodburn Lake group geology and monitored by satellite altimetry.
Telefon Bay
Telefon Bay: small bay on the NW side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, at 62°56'S 60°40'W. Named Baie du Telefon after the SS Telefon, beached there in winter 1909; charted by Charcot's French expedition.
Tengiz
Tengiz, or Lake Tengiz (Kazakh: Теңіз, meaning "sea"), is a large salt lake with no outlet in north-central Kazakhstan, a Ramsar and World Heritage site hosting the northernmost greater flamingo colony.
Tennessee River
The Tennessee River is a 652-mile southeastern US river, the core of the nation's fifth-largest river system, dammed in a nine-dam TVA main-stem cascade for navigation, flood control, hydropower, and drinking water for over 5 million people.
Tequendama Falls
Tequendama Falls (Salto del Tequendama) is a roughly 157-meter plunge waterfall on the Bogotá River about 30 km southwest of Bogotá, Colombia, long a major tourist attraction and later known for pollution and restoration efforts.
Terme di Saturnia
Terme di Saturnia: sulfurous thermal springs at Saturnia, southern Tuscany, emerging at 37.5°C and 500 L/s after a 40-year underground journey; free Cascate del Mulino pools plus a resort and thermal park.
Termini Imerese
Termini Imerese (ancient Thermae Himeraeae, Θερμαὶ ῾Ιμεραῖαι) is a Sicilian coastal town 39 km from Palermo, founded by Carthaginians after 409 BC, an Augustan colony famed for hyperthermal springs of about 43 °C, Roman baths, aqueduct, and amphitheater.
Terror Fracture Zone
Terror Fracture Zone, a Southern Ocean undersea fracture zone in the GEBCO gazetteer, proposed by Steven C. Cande in 1995 and named for HMS Terror of the Ross Expedition; distinct from the Terror Rift of the western Ross Sea.
Teshekpuk
Teshekpuk Lake, meaning "the largest lake of all," is an 850 km² freshwater lake in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve; largest in the state's Arctic, key molting site for brant and calving ground of the Teshekpuk caribou herd.