Explore quality-approved natural world records with coordinates, evidence and related unusual places. These are crawlable research records, not an indiscriminate directory: reports without enough depth remain available for exploration but are excluded from search indexing.
Natural world · GBIFThe island born in living memory
Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
A volcanic island emerged from the Atlantic during eruptions in the 1960s.
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Natural world · GBIFThe island of dragon’s blood trees
Socotra, Yemen
High endemism gives the archipelago a biological character found nowhere else.
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Natural world · US Geological SurveyThe eye visible from orbit
Adrar Plateau, Mauritania
Concentric geological rings form an enormous circular structure in the Sahara.
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