Active volcanoes, spectacular caves, deep glacier lakes, verdant valleys, dazzling fjords, long sandy beaches, and the spectacular snowcapped peaks of the Southern Alps on the South Island all contribute to New Zealand's scenic beauty.
Aside from its rugged mountains and spectacular deep glacier-carved valleys, the park has unusual geologic features, including fossil forests, eroded basaltic lava flows, a black obsidian (volcanic glass) mountain, and odd erosional forms.
Eastern Montana, where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would snake southward on its way to Texas, is not the Montana of movie fame, a landscape of deep woods, glaciers and grizzly-trod wilderness.
Five dams are planned on the Baker and Pascua rivers in Patagonia, a southern region of glaciers, deep valleys and mountains.
Uttarakhand has a highly varied topography, with snow-covered peaks, glaciers, deep canyons, roaring streams, beautiful lakes, and a few patches of dusty plains in the south.
Through its contractor, Raytheon Polar Services, the science foundation is looking into the feasibility of installing a fiber-optic cable across a continent that is marked by glaciers, deep crevasses and towering mountains and is notorious for having some of the world's most extreme cold and winds.
The Ice Cave is a new attraction that allows visitors to explore deep inside a glacier.
He was hoping to extract an ice core — a sample from deep inside the glacier, which would provide a detailed picture of the area's past climate.
Where once he glued smashed plates to the surface, now Schnabel coats his pictures in clear resin a centimetre deep, a chemical glacier in which nubs of paint are trapped like the proverbial fly in amber and everything glistens with unnatural violence.
To gauge the threat of a continuing retreat, glaciologists will be probing deep within the glacier to see why it might be the ice sheet's "weak underbelly".
