Connected Sites
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Mont Niénokoué
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"The Serengeti plain is punctuated by granite outcroppings known as kopjes. These outcroppings are the result of volcanic activity. Kopjies provide a microhabitat for non-plains wildlife. One kopje likely to be seen by visitors to the Serengeti is the Simba Kopje (Lion Kopje). The Serengeti was used as inspiration for the animated Disney feature film The Lion King and subsequent theatrical production. (Wiki)
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The Park's landscape is studded with an archipelago of more than thirty spectacularly isolated inselbergs (UNEP-WCMC)
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The sand sea includes most known types of dunes together with associated landforms such as inselbergs (OUV statement)
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"The former freshwater lake of Jubbah was one of several such water bodies owing their existence to a series of sandstone inselbergs, occurring mostly in a north-south alignment. (...) The largest of these mountains is Jabal Umm Sinman (...)" (Nomination file, p. 13)
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"cave-temple complex is established on an inselberg or erosional remnant of importance in the study of the island's geological history" (unesco)
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"The inselbergs of the region are a unique habitat which harbor an endemic flora"
See (www.unep-wcmc.org
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"The landscape is visually and ecologically distinguished from the surrounding dry savannah. A profusion of distinctive granite landforms, densely packed into a comparatively tight area, rise up to form a sea of hills. Their forms have resulted from the varied composition and alignment of the granites, which responded differently to millions of years of weathering, leaving inselbergs (large individual vertical rocks), kopjes, crenellated ridges, dwalas or hump-backed domes, and what look like randomly heaped boulders." (AB eval)
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Sierra del Rosario
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Mount Mulanje, among the largest inselbergs in the world (ICOMOS ev)
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"Hedeib Al-Fala. This is an area of inselbergs at the east end of Khor al Ajram" and "The jordanian Tableland was uplifted ...Ongoing uplift and erosion triggers the collapse of cliff sections and consequent debris on the valley floors, as well as leaving isolated remnants ('inselbergs') of once larger massifs."
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Uluru
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Tsodilo is situated in the north-western corner of Botswana near the Namibian border. Its massive quartzite rock formations rise from ancient sand dunes to the east and a dry fossil lake bed to the west. They are therefore called "inselbergs," (Nom File)
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"The plains are interspersed with small granitary inselbergs with, to the south, the rugged sandstone massif of the Bongos." (OUV statement)
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inselberg forests (UNEP-WCMC)
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Well-developed geomorphological features that illustrate the origin and ongoing processes in the area include monadnocks... (AB ev)
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“plateau … broken by inselbergs” AB ev
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Contains "rocky inselbergs" (AB ev)
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Fernando de Noronha
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Jebel Hafeet
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sculptured granite inselbergs of which Yamaalyg Reserve is one (UNEP-WCMC)
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Centred on the great Sigiriya rock, a massive monadnock or inselberg rising about 200 metres above the surrounding plain
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"A notable and valuable feature of the Vega Archipelago is the wedge-shaped mountains or "monadnocks". There are two of them on the main island of Vega and a third one forms the Island of Sola" (IUCN eval)
