7 World Natural Wonders

The Seven Natural Wonders.

They’re placed in Nepal, Zimbawe, USA, Australia, Mexico, North pole, Brazil and don’t forget our country, Venezuela, here they’re the Natural Wonders with their specific details:

 Mount Everest: is one of the tallest mountains in the world, it is a part of Himalaya Mountains. They were formed in the last few million years after the super continent of Laurasia broke up million years ago. The Mount Everest is growing two inches taller every year, satellite technology says the mountains is currently 29 107 feet tall. This were recognized like the highest pick in 1852, it got its name ten year later in 1862. Mount Everest was called for Sir George Everest (1790-1866), a British surveyor. Mount Everest sit on the border between Nepal and Tibet. People of the western hemisphere weren’t allowed to climb this mountain until 1920’s. The first known climb that made it to the top was made by a New Zealander named Edmund Hillary and a Napalese named Tenzing Norgay. They climbed the mountain in 1953. Since then Everest has been climbed by 400 people.

 The Matterhorn: An English mountaineer, Edward Whymper, led the first successful climb to the top of the Matterhorn in 1865. That first climb turned out to be really sad. Out of seven, four people died when a rope snapped and they plunged down the north face. One of the bodies was never found.

The Matterhorn is well known for it's magnificent outline and it's position above the Swiss village of Zermatt. If you've visited Disney Land in California you have no doubt seen a replica of it.

The Matterhorn is not the highest mountain in the Alps, or even the highest peak in Switzerland, but it has four very marked ridges and faces that make it look like a pyramid. Its beauty is made even more striking by the way it stands by no other mountain close by.

About 40 million years ago, the Alps were created, when two sections of the Earth's crust crashed into each other, throwing up rock into a chain of buckled, folded mountains.

 The meteor crater: Some of the natural wonders are known for their beauty. The Meteor Crater is not one of them. It looks like a big hole in the desert. It was caused by a meteorite hitting the earth thousands of years ago. A meteorite is a rock that crashed into the earth that came from outer space.

The crater is 4,145 feet across, and 570 feet deep and is the largest impact crater in the whole entire world. There are others in Mexico, Antarctica, Australia, and Siberia.

In 1871 the Europeans thought it was a clasped top of a volcano. However, in 1902 Dr. Daniel Barringer proved that the rocks around the hole were NOT volcanic and showed a couple of signs that mean it was crushed by an enormous body going at the speed of 43,125 mph. The explosion would have been about forty times as large as the atomic bomb that destroyed the city Hiroshima in Japan in 1945.

 The Victoria’s Fall: One of the greatest waterfalls in the whole world lies on the Zimbezi River, which forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Some people think it is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. The river flows through a wide valley. You could see the Victoria’s Falls from 15 to 40 miles away, and see its spray rising 1000 feet into the air from seven miles away. The falls were formed by a deep rift in the rock that lies directly across the path of the Zimbezi River. The rift was caused by movement of the earth about 150 million years ago. At the broadest point, the falls are 5,545 feet across. The height of the falls varies from 256 feet to about 354 feet in the center.

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