It was the wilderness with rugged terrain has always stimulated the curiosity of explorers to discover.
Since 1950, Dr. Robin Hanbury - Tenison has conducted more than 30 expeditions on every continent. He was the first to cross the widest point of South America or go along on the Kalahari Desert Aboriginal tourism and Amazon on a seaplane.
The trip helped him better understand the land is also obscure. 8 locations along had "hidden" hard to find, but he went to in his expeditions.
1. Central American Region
As a land between North America and South America, the countries of Central America can be easily overlooked on the map. However, it has a network of diverse cultures, ancient ruins, tropical jungles - very suitable for those who like adventure, adventurous.
To start the expedition, you can climb the volcano and visit the lava was still gurgling. Walking across the jungle will lead you to the Mayan pyramids or better understand the lives of monkeys, quetzals, sloths live.
The mountains in the north of Central America.
With that, visitors will have the opportunity of exploring the ruins of the rainforest and wild animals appear from ancient civilizations.
Pyramids and Mayan civilizations.
Not only golden sand beaches, the Central American region also take you to visit a village hidden deep in the Mayan region, Kuna and Miskito, explore the lives of residents, buy handmade products landmark statues of the ancients.
2. Gunung Mulu National Park, Broneo
Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Borneo Brunei borders as World Heritage by UNESCO.The park has a lot of caves and karst tectonics (weathering phenomenon).
The stone pyramid in Gunung Mulu National Park.
According to the local language, means Mulu caves. Oldest caves Mulu began forming about 5 million years ago, when Earth's tilt movement led to the formation of both limestone mountains and sandstone located close together.
Experienced a very long time period with heavy rain poured down, the river was fast flowing streams forming underground cave system as it is today.
At Gunung Mulu National Park has caves to 100m high, 90m wide, 2km long. The largest cave is home to millions of bats and birds nest refuge when flying into twilight.
In the 70s, Dr. Tenison joined Robin Hanbury- largest expedition of the Royal Geographic Society to rainforests Mulu in 15 months. They discovered 24,000 new species - both plants and animals - a finding of great significance to the natural sciences.
3. Natural forests Amazon
Amazon rainforest, is a broadleaf forest in the Amazon basin of South America. This area lies within the territory of 9 countries, mainly Brazil (with 60% of the rainforest), Peru (13%) and the rest of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Surinam and French Guyana.
With a total covered surface area of up to 7 million km2, the Amazon is called the "lungs" of the planet's largest give the Earth about 20% oxygen. Not only that, long lines along the Amazon river's biggest water flow is the paradise planet of vegetation and animal species is extremely rare.
Amazon is the largest biosphere reserve in the world.
Estimates, Amazon owns more than 1/10 of species - plants on Earth, including about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants (40,000 species) and nearly 5,000 species of birds, fish, reptiles and mammals live.
Green Anaconda giant python perched on a tree is easy to catch your images when visiting the Amazon jungle.
You must be brave enough courage to visit the residence of the giant green anaconda boa perched on trees, electric eel caught fish can emit electric stun, death or poisoned from the frogs. ..
4. Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Great Barrier Reef stretches 2.600km gorgeous off the coast of Australia is made up of 3,000 reefs, billions of tiny living organisms and 900 islands.
Coral rock structure are living today began development on a geological background about 18,000 years old. However, the Great Barrier Reef - the world's natural heritage is being severely degraded by warming of the Earth. With ocean acidification on the increase, along with the pollution caused more than half of the coral in the Great Barrier disappeared.
Reef Great Barrier featuring corals and colorful fish.
According to calculations of scientists, the Great Barrier Reef will be gone in 20 years or more.And this may be the natural ecosystems of the world's first extinction.
5. Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Located at the easternmost point of Russia, Kamchatka looks pristine kept largely intact as beginning when forming. Kamchatka is known as the "land of volcanoes and hot water jets" by the central section and the river valley lying between the Kamchatka large volcanic mountains, of which 29 are still active mountain.
It has a forest valleys with beautiful blooming flowers, flowing rivers, where Kamchatka brown bears catching salmon often. With the diversity of salmon in the world should be recognized Kurilski lake is home to the largest salmon spawning in the Eurasian mainland.
Hanbury-Tenison Dr Robin said that Kamchatka is the land of fun and exciting. Not only the majestic scenery, riveting but which is the habitat of many native tribes extremely unique.
6. Congo Rainforest
Congo rainforest is the second largest rainforest in the world, spanning 6 countries with 600 plants and around 10,000 different kinds of animals. More specifically, 70% of the vegetation of the jungle continent of this basin.
Like all tropical forest, many animal species live concentrated in the Congo Basin. These include such as pygmy chimpanzees, hippos, gorillas or Okapi - a species hybrid shaped between a giraffe and zebra ... the animals live deep in the Congolese jungle.
According to Dr. Robin Hanbury- Tenison, precisely because this region faces many problems of territorial conflict should have quite a few people come here explorers. But if there is a chance to visit, the tropical forests would not be disappointed.
7. Lake Vostok, Antarctica
With a length of 250km and reaches 50km at its widest point, Lake Vostok (East means lake) has become the largest pool of nearly 200 underground lake beneath dense layers of the Antarctic.
Lake Vostok is the most mysterious places on the planet. According to estimates, Lake Vostok may be isolated from the outside world for about 15-25 million years ago under the thick ice to 4km.
The average depth of Lake Vostok is 344m, with an estimated volume of about 5.400km blocks.
Environment under the Vostok lake is considered mysterious and never been recorded worldwide.The study was Lake Vostok will open up many opportunities to study more about Earth life for many millions of years.
Robin Hanbury Tenison there-good message that if you want to join Lake Vostok expedition it is necessary to prepare mentally ready by the lake is very cold and dark.
8. Mariana Trench
Located on the bottom of the Pacific Northwest, to the east of the Mariana Islands, the Mariana Trench (or Mariana Area, puddle Mariana) is the deepest ocean trench that has been discovered.The deepest point of the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the Earth's crust.
Trench is the boundary where two tectonic plates of the Pacific and the Philippine Plate meet. The maximum depth of this groove is 10.971m below sea level. Working in such depth in the Mariana Trench, with more than 1,000 atmospheres of pressure is a challenge to the scientific community so far.
The pressure here is huge adverse environments for most marine life.
Hanbury-Tenison said Robin Mariana Trench unimaginable cold, everywhere covering a black. The explorers have dived in 1960 and found 20 tons of food, clams and mysterious creatures living undiscovered in an isolated hot springs. With new technology, the researchers hope to have the opportunity to understand more about ocean trenches mysterious depths.
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