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METEORITE LANDING 960SHIPWRECK 858UNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK 241BUNKER 211DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE 206OSSUARY 145ARTIFICIAL ISLAND 137SINKHOLE 129TIDAL ISLAND 89PROTECTED WRECK 57SPECIAL-USE ROAD — ABORIGINAL ACCESS 45EXCLAVE 38IMPACT CRATER 37SUBMERGED SETTLEMENT 34GEOLOGICAL FORMATION 26QUARANTINE FACILITY 26GHOST TOWN 24GEOGLYPH 22SEA FORT 18CATACOMB 14EXCLUSION ZONE 14BOAT LIFT 12SUBTERRANEAN RIVER 12Heritage 7CLIFF DWELLING 6GHOST STATION 6Infrastructure 5UNDERGROUND CITY 5BLUE HOLE 4Odd boundaries 4REPORTEDLY HAUNTED PLACE 4ICE CAVE 3MONOLITHIC CHURCH 3MUD VOLCANO 3Natural world 3

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METEORITE LANDING

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SHIPWRECK

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UNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK

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BUNKER

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DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE

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OSSUARY

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ARTIFICIAL ISLAND

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SINKHOLE

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TIDAL ISLAND

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PROTECTED WRECK

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SPECIAL-USE ROAD — ABORIGINAL ACCESS

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EXCLAVE

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IMPACT CRATER

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SUBMERGED SETTLEMENT

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION

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QUARANTINE FACILITY

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GHOST TOWN

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GEOGLYPH

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SEA FORT

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CATACOMB

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EXCLUSION ZONE

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BOAT LIFT

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SUBTERRANEAN RIVER

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Heritage

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CLIFF DWELLING

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GHOST STATION

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Infrastructure

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UNDERGROUND CITY

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BLUE HOLE

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Odd boundaries

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REPORTEDLY HAUNTED PLACE

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ICE CAVE

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MONOLITHIC CHURCH

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MUD VOLCANO

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Natural world

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Weirdness scoreCategory rarity, unusual language, descriptive depth and source grounding. It ranks curiosity—not cultural value.
Rarity rankHow uncommon the type is within Heritage Atlas’s current approved catalogue.
Evidence scoreCoordinates, public source, dataset identity and descriptive completeness.
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The old and new Low Lights at North Shields Fish QuayHeritage · Historic England

The lighthouse that worked as half of a sightline

North Shields, England

The Low Light guided ships by lining up with a second light above the Fish Quay.

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The monumental sewer ventilation tower at BondiInfrastructure · Heritage NSW

The classical tower built to ventilate a sewer

Bondi, Sydney, Australia

A monumental concrete vent rises beside Bondi Golf Course like a misplaced coastal column.

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Ancient marine erosion platform · La Société Guernesiaise

The reef that became a cliff-top plateau

Pleinmont, Torteval, Guernsey

A high, surprisingly level headland records an ancient marine erosion surface that local geological interpretation describes as a largely submerged warm-water reef around 10 million years ag

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Odd boundaries · States of Guernsey

An island joined by the tide

Lihou, Guernsey

A causeway alternates between road and seabed according to the tide.

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A giant iron drum in the city in Oberhausen, GermanyHeritage · UNESCO World Heritage

A giant iron drum in the city

Oberhausen, Germany

A former gas holder survives at monumental scale as an industrial landmark.

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A whole town built for one mill in Saltaire, EnglandHeritage · Historic England

A whole town built for one mill

Saltaire, England

Industrial planning produced a settlement where work, housing and civic life were designed together.

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Heritage · OpenStreetMap

The monument on the mountain

Central Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria

A vast civic monument occupies an isolated mountain summit.

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The town that moved underground in Coober Pedy, South AustraliaInfrastructure · Gazetteer of Australia

The town that moved underground

Coober Pedy, South Australia

Homes and civic spaces occupy excavated rock to escape surface heat.

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The Red Sands Maunsell sea forts in the Thames EstuaryInfrastructure · OpenStreetMap

Sea forts standing on stilts

Thames Estuary, England

Wartime towers remain offshore like fragments of a mechanical city.

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A listening station on a rubble hill in Berlin, GermanyInfrastructure · OpenStreetMap

A listening station on a rubble hill

Berlin, Germany

Cold War technology occupies an artificial mountain made from wartime debris.

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The town above a burning mine in Centralia, PennsylvaniaInfrastructure · US Geological Survey

The town above a burning mine

Centralia, Pennsylvania

A long-lived underground mine fire altered roads, settlement and population.

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A village with one resident in Monowi, NebraskaOdd boundaries · US Census Bureau

A village with one resident

Monowi, Nebraska

A legally incorporated village persists despite an extraordinary population count.

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The American town reached through Canada in Point Roberts, WashingtonOdd boundaries · US Census Bureau

The American town reached through Canada

Point Roberts, Washington

A border drawn along the 49th parallel left a US community attached by land only to Canada.

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The library on an international border in Derby Line, VermontOdd boundaries · US National Park Service

The library on an international border

Derby Line, Vermont

A public building is crossed by the boundary between the United States and Canada.

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The sound dome in the desert in Landers, CaliforniaHeritage · US National Park Service

The sound dome in the desert

Landers, California

A timber dome links experimental architecture, acoustics and desert mythology.

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The petrol station shaped like a plane in Powell, TennesseeHeritage · US National Park Service

The petrol station shaped like a plane

Powell, Tennessee

Roadside architecture turned a service station into an aeroplane.

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The island born in living memory in Vestmannaeyjar, IcelandNatural world · GBIF

The island born in living memory

Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland

A volcanic island emerged from the Atlantic during eruptions in the 1960s.

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The island of dragon’s blood trees in Socotra, YemenNatural world · GBIF

The island of dragon’s blood trees

Socotra, Yemen

High endemism gives the archipelago a biological character found nowhere else.

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The eye visible from orbit in Adrar Plateau, MauritaniaNatural world · US Geological Survey

The eye visible from orbit

Adrar Plateau, Mauritania

Concentric geological rings form an enormous circular structure in the Sahara.

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The city recorded building by building in New York City, United StatesHeritage · Library of Congress

The city recorded building by building

New York City, United States

Fire-insurance maps preserve vanished tanks, yards, passages and industrial footprints.

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Castellammare della Bruca in ItalyGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Castellammare della Bruca

Italy

medieval fortified village, now deserted town, built on the acropolis of the ancient Greek colony Elea-Velia, South Italy, Campania region

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Hiawatha in United StatesGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Hiawatha

United States

ghost town on the Wasatch Plateau in Carbon and Emery counties in Utah, United States

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Avoca

United States

town in Avoca Township, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Territory, United States of America

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Chisana in United StatesGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Chisana

United States

human settlement in Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States of America

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Chiapporato in ItalyGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Chiapporato

Italy

human settlement in Camugnano, Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Picher

United States

ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Katalla

United States

human settlement in Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States of America

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Weston

United States

former unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Dale

United States

human settlement in Highland Grove Township, Minnesota, United States of America

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Pitt

United States

human settlement in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States of America

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Lude

United States

human settlement in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States of America

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Cary

United States

Now extinct community in Harrison Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

West Portal

United States

ghost town in the Wasatch Range in the Uinta National Forest in the Utah County, Utah, United States

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Portsmouth

United States

former fishing and shipping village located on Portsmouth Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina

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Rath City in United StatesGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Rath City

United States

human settlement in Double Mountain Fork Brazos River, Texas, United States of America

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Faraone in ItalyGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Faraone

Italy

human settlement in Sant'Egidio alla Vibrata, Province of Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Ruddock

United States

human settlement in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States of America

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Thurber

United States

unincorporated community in Erath County, Texas, United States (near the Palo Pinto county line), located 75 miles west of Fort Worth

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Hallaig

United Kingdom

village on the Isle of Raasay, Portree, Highland, Scotland, UK, cleared in 1852-4

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Tahlonteeskee

United States

first capital city of the early western Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, United States

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Burg

United Kingdom

deserted village on Ardmeanach, Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

South Screapadal

United Kingdom

village on the Isle of Raasay, Portree, Highland, Scotland, UK, cleared in the 1850s

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GHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

North Screapadal

United Kingdom

village on the Isle of Raasay, Portree, Highland, Scotland, UK, cleared in the 1850s

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Glenrio in United StatesGHOST TOWN · Wikidata global places

Glenrio

United States

ghost town in Quay County, New Mexico and Deaf County, Texas in the United States

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Precipice Sandstone

Australia

Thick-bedded, cross-bedded, pebbly quartzose sandstone, minor lithic sublabile sandstone, siltstone, mudstone.

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Tumblagooda sandstone

Australia

Fine- to medium-grained sandstones; minor conglomerate; red,commonly bioturbated siltstone towards the top of the unit. Located in Western Australia

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Wallumbilla Formation

Australia

marine grey mudstone and siltstone with minor interbeds of fine-grained glauconitic and calcareous sandstone, local thin micritic limestone beds and heavy mineral strandline accumulations; d

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Dancing Ledge in United KingdomGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Dancing Ledge

United Kingdom

Dancing Ledge is part of the Jurassic Coast near Langton Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England

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Rhynie chert in United KingdomGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Rhynie chert

United Kingdom

early Devonian sedimentary deposit exhibiting extraordinary fossil detail or completeness

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Eumeralla Formation

Australia

Volcanilithic sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, mud-clast conglomerate, with feldspar and quartz grains, and coal: fine to medium grained, consolidated, well-bedded, cross-bedded; braided stre

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Wonthaggi Formation

Australia

Lithic volcaniclastic sandstone, arkose, siltstone, minor conglomerate and coal; fluvial.

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Utica Shale in United StatesGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Utica Shale

United States

rock layer of shale underneath the state of New York and in the subsurface in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Ranquil Formation

Chile

Miocene and Pliocene sedimentary formation located in Arauco Province in south–central Chile, including outcrops in Mocha Island

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Urumaco Formation in VenezuelaGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Urumaco Formation

Venezuela

geological formation in Venezuela, where some unusually large fossils have been found

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Purlawaugh Formation

Australia

Fine to medium grained lithic to labile sandstone thinly interbedded with siltstone, mudstone and thin coal seams. Abundant carbonaceous fragments, thin beds of flint clay.

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Evergreen Formation

Australia

Labile and sublabile, sandstone, carbonaceous mudstone, siltstone and minor coal; local oolitic ironstone.

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Broome Sandstone

Australia

Fine- to very coarse-grained sandstone; minor mudstone and conglomerate; deltaic

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Bungil Formation

Australia

geological formation in Australia. Glauconitic, labile to quartzose, siltstone, mudstone. Subdominant coarse-grained quartzose sandstone in some areas. Minor thin coal seams.

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Allaru Formation

Australia

primarily blue-grey mudstone (partly pyritic) and interbedded calcareous siltstone, cone-in-cone limestone and lesser sandstone

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

El Salto Formation

Nicaragua

Early Pliocene geological formation in Managua Department, Nicaragua, exposed mainly near San Rafael del Sur and preserving a mysticete fossil at Mine K-11

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Miria Formation

Australia

Predominantly calcareous pelagic deposits: low-energy marine-shelf calcarenite and calcisiltite.

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Molteno Formation in South AfricaGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Molteno Formation

South Africa

Triassic geological formation in the Stormberg Group in Lesotho and South Africa

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Ganigobis Formation

Namibia

Late Carboniferous to Early Permian geological formation of the Dwyka Group in Southern Africa

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Katberg Formation

South Africa

geological formation in the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa

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Cenomanian Limestones in UkraineGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Cenomanian Limestones

Ukraine

geological natural monument by Bronnyzja, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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Senomanski vapniaky in UkraineGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Senomanski vapniaky

Ukraine

geological natural monument by Kreminne, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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Cenomanian Limestones in UkraineGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Cenomanian Limestones

Ukraine

geological natural monument by Yaryshiv, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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Leimitz formation in GermanyGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Leimitz formation

Germany

Place where fossils were discovered (near Leimitz, Hof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany).

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GEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Teekloof Formation

South Africa

Late Permian geological formation that forms part of the Beaufort Group of South Africa

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Bandelier Tuff in United StatesGEOLOGICAL FORMATION · Wikidata global places

Bandelier Tuff

United States

geologic formation exposed in and around the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Aachen meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L5 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 21 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Aarhus meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A H6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 720 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Abee meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A EH4 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 107,000 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Acapulco meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A Acapulcoite meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 1,914 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Achiras meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 780 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Adhi Kot meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A EH4 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 4,239 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Adzhi-Bogdo (stone) meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A LL3-6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 910 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Agen meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A H5 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 30,000 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Aguada meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 1,620 g.

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METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Aguila Blanca meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 1,440 g.

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Coordinate distribution map

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Where the odd clusters

Countries, cities, continents and seasons compared.

Counts show catalogue concentration. Average weirdness and evidence rankings require at least three records so a single place cannot win by itself.

Countries with most oddities

Approved records by country.

Countries with the weirdest mix

Highest average weirdness, minimum three records.

Countries with strongest evidence

Highest average evidence score, minimum three records.

Cities with most nearby oddities

Grouped by nearest mapped settlement.

Cities with the weirdest surroundings

Highest average weirdness, minimum three nearby records.

Oddities by continent

How the approved catalogue is distributed.

Best-month availability

How many records include each month as a broad visiting window.

Oddity type × continent

A two-dimensional count makes regional data gaps and specialisms visible.

Country ranking table

Count, average weirdness, average evidence and the country’s highest-ranked place.