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The Bamendjing reservoir located in Bamendjing in Cameroon was built in 1975. It dams the Noun River. This river flows from the western region of Cameroon where it arises from Lake Oku and flows towards the south. The Monoun River joins it and they flow south together into the valley between mountains Mount Yahou and Ngotsetzezan. The reservoir has a maximum length of 32 km and is 276 km wide. The surface area of this reservoir varies from 150 km? to 300 km?. The reservoir houses various kinds of flora and fauna all year long such as hippopotamus, many birds like Palm nut Vulture, hammerkop, kingfisher, beeeater, etc.

The Argentinean coastline of 4,500 km serves as an awesome touristic locale, since kilometres of lukewarm water mingles with an array of landscapes such as majestic cliffs, shoals, dunes, accompanied by numerous fishing, recreational, and sporting activities. This coast offers an extraordinary and diverse environment where muddy or sandy beaches display pebble accumulations, and abrupt cliffs or quartz rock massif are seen. The whale watching tours are also started from the Argentinean Coast. The cold currents known as the Falkland Current that flows towards the North blends with the warm Currents of this coast with its subtropical variety of animal.

The United States of America is a federal republic and comprises of one federal district and 50 states. Totally, United States is spread around 9.83 million km2 and is the third largest nation in terms of total area. It has a population of about 318 million individuals and is the third largest country in terms of population. USA is also one of the worlds most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations. This is because of large amount of immigration from other nations. The climate and geography of United States is also highly diverse, hence it houses a wide array of wildlife.

The Northern Lights are an occurrence in the northern areas of the polar region or northern Europe. Northern Europe, geographically, comprises of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, the Faroe Island, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Greenland, and the British Isles. They frequently occur in a region of 2500 km radius centred on the magnetic north pole. This aurora or northern light zone extends all over the northern Scandinavian islands, though the occurrence is more pronounced in the coasts of Norway, and with mild winter climate and easy accessibility, north Norway has become an attractive tourist destination for individuals keen to observe this atmospheric miracle.

Auroras visible in southern hemisphere are called southern lights or aurora australis. It can be viewed from high latitudes of Antarctica and Australia. An aurora happens to be a natural light seen in the sky in regions of high latitude. It is caused because of the collision of magnetospheric charged particle and solar winds with atmosphere. Aurora comprises of different colours like red, green, blue, yellow and pink. An aurora usually appears either as curtains or as diffused glow which generally spreads in the westeast direction. Sometimes, they appear as quiet arcs whereas at others they keep evolving and changing constantly.

A view of the picture depicting Earth by night as taken from a satellite proves that night times on Earth are not as dark as all of us believe. The fact is that Earth is never completely dark when as the glow from manmade structures and nature light our planet. The light shines even when no human settlements are around as volcanoes rage and wildfires burn. Gas and oil wells flicker like matchsticks. Auroras adorn the skies of the polar region. Starlight and moonlight reflect from the water, clouds, deserts, and snow. Sometimes, even the ocean and air appear to be glowing.

The Kamchatka Peninsula happens to be a 1,250kilometre peninsula located in the far eastern region of Russia having an area of around 270,000 km2. The peninsula has the Sea of Okhotsk on its west and the Pacific Ocean on its east. Along the Pacific seashore of the peninsula, the Kuril

Crater Lake happens to be a caldera lake situated in south central Oregon in west of United States. This lake almost partially fills up a deep caldera having a depth of 2,148foot and was formed about 7,700 years ago due to the collapse of the Mount Mazama volcano. This lake is well known for its clear water and deep blue colour and is the prime attraction of the Crater Lake National Park. The lake is supposed to be the deepest within the United States. Surprisingly, no rivers flow into the lake the water in the lake is only compensated by rains and snowfall.

Antarctica is located in the Antarctic area in the Southern Hemisphere. It is southernmost continent on Earth and is the geographical South Pole. Area wise, it happens to be the fifth largest continent. Almost 98% of this region is covered with ice with an average of a minimum of 1.9 kilometres in thickness. It is the driest, windiest, and coldest continent on earth with the greatest average elevation as compared to all the other continents. Only organisms adapted to cold can survive such as certain varieties of algae, fungi, bacteria, protista, plants, and animals, like mites, nematodes, seals, tardigrades, and penguins.

The sand Dunes of Colorado are natures wonder and also a wonder when seen from space. The characteristic greenish black color areas of the sand dunes are due to the black sand. The characteristic black dunes appearing as green algal mass. This black sand is the deposits of magnetite that is a crystalline black oxide of iron. The peak of the dunes are said to be moist always. This feature is better reasoned by the misty looking deposits on the dunes. This image was created using the data supplied by the Global Land Cover Facility of the University of Maryland.