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Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe, The Eye of the Rhino, Nalubaale, Sango, or Lolwe) is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to visit this lake.
With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest l...
Lamington is a national park in Queensland, Australia, lying on the Lamington Plateau of the McPherson Range on the Queensland/New South Wales border. From Southport on the Gold Coast the park is 85 km to the southwest and Brisbane is 110 km north.
Lamington National Park is known for its natural beauty, rainforests, birdlife, ancient trees, waterfalls, walking tracks...
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia, or Dauria is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia.
The steppe and wetland landscapes of Dauria are protected by the Daurian Nature Reserve, which forms part of a World Heritage Site named "Landscapes of Dauria".
Dauria stretches for almost 1,000 km from north to south from ...
Quiet beach on Cyprus's northwest coast with a sandy strip that is home to loggerhead turtles.
The Lara Bay Turtle Conservation Station presides over the turtles who come here every year to nest. Devoted conservationists keep an eye on the green and loggerhead turtles, safeguarding the eggs and young hatchlings and educating the public on the turtles’ pligh...
Larnaca Salt Lake is a complex network of four salt lakes (3 of them interconnected) of different sizes to the west of the city of Larnaca. The largest is lakeAliki, followed by lakeOrphani, lakeSorosand lakeSpiro. They form the second largest salt lake in Cyprus after the Limassol Salt Lake. The total surface area of the lakes adds up to 2.2 km2 and being just off th...
Home of the oldest bird sanctuary in North America (established in 1887), Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area features great birding in mid-May and fall staging during September and October. The most spectacular time of year is the fall when up to 50,000 Sandhill Cranes, 450,000 geese, and several hundred thousand ducks may be observed.
Over 280 species of bird...
Látrabjarg in Westfjord, Iceland marks the western-most part of Europe (excluding some of the Azores islands) and its bird cliffs are one of the rare places on earth that is home to several spectacular species of birds.
The cliffs are home to millions of birds, including puffins, northern gannets, guillemots and razorbills. It is vital for their survival a...
Laysan (Kauō), located 808 nautical miles (1,496 km; 930 mi) northwest of Honolulu, is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of 1,016 acres (4.11 km2), about 1 by 1 1⁄2 miles (1.6 by 2.4 km) in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow central lake some 8 feet (2.4 m) above sea level that has a...
The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, is the largest of all living turtles (as well as the largest extant sea turtle) and is the fourth largest modern reptile behind three crocodilians.
Leatherback turtles nest during the summer months at night (October - March). They use medium to coarse grained sandy beaches that are ba...
Playa Grande is most famous for its leatherback turtles. The estuary from the Rio Matapalo, as well as the Tamarindo Estuary is a popular place for visitors to see wildlife.
Berenty Reserve is a small private reserve of gallery forest along the Mandrake river, set in the semi-arid spiny forest ecoregion of the far south of Madagascar. For more than three decades the primatologist Alison Jolly (who started the research at Berenty), researchers and students have visited Berenty to conduct fieldwork on lemurs. The reserve is also a favourite...
Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve is a Zapovednik (“scientific nature reserve”) located in the delta of the Lena River in Sakha Republic, in the far north of eastern Siberia, Russia. It has a total land area of 61,000 square kilometres (23,552 sq mi), making it the largest protected area in Russia. The delta itself has a size of about 30,000 square kilometres (1...
Leonard Harrison State Park is a 585-acre Pennsylvania state park in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is on the east rim of the Pine Creek Gorge, also known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, which is 800 feet (240 m) deep and nearly 4,000 feet (1,200 m) across here. It also serves as headquarters for the adjoining Colton Point State Park, its si...