10 Most Mysterious Lost Worlds

Описание: Hi everybody! From islands that seem to fly above the ground to deep trenches that are home to some of the most resilient creatures on earth, here are ten mysterious lost worlds.

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10. Bosavi crater
Mount Bosavi is a tall, ancient volcano in Papau New Guinea which caved in on itself around 200,000 years ago. The top of this rock fell 3,000 feet downward and created an ecosystem which is now entirely independent from the world around it! Naturally, this has excited explorers, but access to the Bosavi crater has been extremely limited.

9. Sima Humboldt
In Bolivar State, Venezuela, there is a flat-topped mountain known as Sari-sari-nama tepui, with a heavily forested plateau. It looks grim enough, but there’s an even more intimidating feature there… a giant sinkhole at the very top of the mountain known as Sima Humboldt. There are a few others there, but Sima Humboldt is the largest.

8. Movile Cave
Movile Cave is a cave in Southeastern Romania that has remained cut off from the outside world for 5-and-a-half million years, enabling a great deal of foreign flora and fauna to adapt to their strange, antagonistic environment. The atmosphere inside the cave is lightly poisonous, containing high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide from the pool of sulphuric water it bears down below.

7. Challenger Deep
The Challenger Deep is the lowest point inside the Mariana Trench, and it’s the deepest point on earth, reaching approximately 7 miles into the ocean! While some explorers like to climb mountains, far less are acquainted with the strange world at the bottom of the world’s oceans. It was first explored in 1960, but they were only able to stay there for 20 minutes.

6. Cape Melville
Cape Melville is a faraway section of land in Northeastern Australia where few people have ever wandered. But they might be more interested now that a few scientists have uncovered what this lost world holds; an impressive array of never-before seen animals! Given the difficulty of traversing the mountains in Cape Melville, peppered with large boulders of granite that are hard to pass, these animals might be hard to find.

5. Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok is a gigantic lake that’s buried under around 2 miles of solid ice! But somehow, even though temperatures can reach extremes of up to -128 degrees Fahrenheit (the coldest temperature ever recorded on earth), lots of things find a way to survive down there. In fact, scientists recently discovered around 3500 new kinds of species thriving underneath this dense arctic ice.

4. Palawan Highlands
The Palawan Highlands are so remote from the rest of their world that they have their own strange forms of wildlife! Palawan itself is an island inside of the Philippines, and the Highlands are a remote section of the island nestled atop two different mountains, Mount Victoria and Mount Sagpaw.

3. Son Doong Cave
In 1990, when Ho Khanh discovered Son Doong cave while looking around the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, he intitially didn’t think much of it. But when he talked to the British Cave Research Association, they realized that there might be more to it than he let on. When that team looked inside the cave in 2009, they discovered that they were right; in terms of cross-section, the Son Doong Cave is the biggest cave that’s currently been discovered in the world!

2. East Scotia Ridge
The East Scotia Ridge is one of the strangest aquatic environments that humanity has ever discovered. Located around 8,200 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean, the oceanic and tectonic conditions interact in a way that’s just right to create a surreal, HOT environment. That’s because there are big hydrothermal vents in the East Scotia Ridge, which can reach temperatures of up to 719 degrees Fahrenheit!

1. Mount Roraima
Mount Roraima, located in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park, is one of the most magnificent mountains in the world. It looks as if it’s from a fairy tale, and some of the species that live there would have you believe that too. Because it rains almost daily there, Mount Roraima has developed a separate ecosystem from the rest of Venezuela, with its own flora and fauna, like the Marsh Pitcher Plant, which feeds on insects. Even the plant looks surreal!

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