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The peninsula remains covered in snow from October to May, and is home to impressive populations of brown bears and other northern wildlife. Summers see daytime temperatures of over 45 degrees Celsius degrees Fahrenheit , and nights can be freezing. Virtually no humans inhabit the Namib other than a scattering of small indigenous settlements and nomad groups.
The last pristine mountain in the Himalayas, Nepalese believe Machapuchare is the home of Lord Shiva and prohibit climbing to the summit. Only one attempt has ever been made to climb the summit of Machapuchare. In a British expedition made it within meters of the top, but they kept their promise they would not climb it to the top. Since then the sacred mountain has been closed to climbers entirely.
Caused by groundwater erosion of limestone into deep caverns or fissures, these vast stretches of incredibly steep rocks are virtually impossible for humans to travel across. Research has since confirmed there are lakes beneath the glaciers of Antarctica, some of which have been covered with ice for 35 million years.
Discovered by Russian scientists during a expedition, Lake Vostok is the largest of the subglacial lakes in Antarctica. Its discovery is still considered one of the most important geographical finds of the 20 th century. Earth is kind of a big place. Australia: New Hebrides Trench. Myanmar: Northern Forest Complex. Credits: Source: Kate Armstrong, Ph. Little, Ph. Papua New Guinea: Star Mountains. Sakha Republic, Russia. Mount Namuli, Mozambique. Fiordland National Park, New Zealand.
Cape Melville, Australia. India: North Sentinel Island. Population: 40 Nearest populated region: kilometers miles from Indonesia. Vietnam: Hang Son Doong. Venezuela: Mount Roraima. Philippines: Palawan Island. Venezuela: Sima Humboldt. Antarctica: East Scotia Ridge. Greenland: Oodaaq Island. Brazil: Vale do Javari. Credits: A deep-sea anglerfish living within the pillow basalts.
You can see its round lure in between its two eyes. This fish is an ambush predator that waits for prey to be attracted by the lure before rapidly capturing them in one gulp with their large mouths.
Chile: Northern Patagonia. Bhutan: Gangkhar Puensum. Russia: Kamchatka. Namibia: Namib Desert. The forest itself consists of pine-rhododendron, evergreen, mixed deciduous, alpine meadows — and more.
Via adventureplaybook. Mount Everest gets a lot of attention, but there is still a mountain on this planet that no one has climbed — and it is Gangkhar Puensum. Unfortunately, they could not be completed due to inclement weather.
The Hindenberg Wall is a series of limestone plateaus that is insanely high — a mile high, to be exact. This natural wonder remains largely unexplored, with unique ecosystems and natural species. A biological survey of the 30 mile long bluffs found that of the 1, plant and animal species, of them were completely new and undiscovered. The rainfall here is abundant, at over 10, mm per year, and it is believed to be one of the wettest places on the planet. Via mayadiving.
Caves are unsurprisingly unexplored places — they are often difficult or even dangerous to access and located in remote mountain ranges or regions all around the planet.
Even underwater caves are often undisturbed by marine life because of unsafe conditions. The Yucatan Cenotes are one such example of unexplored caves. Cenotes result from limestone bedrock that collapse and reveal groundwater. The Yucatan Cenotes are quite a large cave network in Mexico, and its stunning snow and crystal caves are too dangerous for even experienced spelunkers. Interestingly enough, cenotes were once used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings. Maybe they were on to something.
Via viewfromdar. Madagascar itself was unexplored for a while, so the Tsingy De Bemaraha National Park, located on its western edge, is hardly revelatory as a largely undisturbed area. The park is square miles of wilderness. Its limestone came about over the process of millions and millions of years, and now there are canyons, forests, and gorges — all of which serve as a fortress of sorts.
There are a plethora of animal and plant species native to this area — including a large number that remain undiscovered. Via gadventures. Guess where most people have never traveled to? Cold, barren and uninhabitable for much of recent memory, the continent is literally the coldest place on the planet. How cold? Between and degrees Celsius. In fact, the lowest recorded temperature on the continent was degrees Celsius.
In addition to the unbearable cold, there is heavy snow, dangerous crevasses and glaciers. There are also incredibly thick ice sheets — with thickness of 2 miles. Given the hazardous climate and unsafe natural features of its landscape, Antartica remains — and will likely continue to remain — one of the least explored places on the planet. Via upscapetravel.
In , Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard and U. Navy Lt. Colonel Donald Walsh traveled to the bottom of Challenger Deep in a submarine designed by Piccard's father that used gasoline in its floats because gasoline is lighter than water. Cameron himself traveled to the bottom in a custom submersible that he helped design, and he took cameras, unlike the s expedition. He filmed lots of squishy creatures, and maybe helped discover a new species of sea cucumber.
But even still, the Trench is almost entirely unexplored. If you've ever opened a South America guidebook, you'll know what a tepui is. These gigantic towers of rock with sheer sides that rise out the ground like God has decided to just start messing with scientists are found across Venezuela. They're incredibly remote and seriously hard to climb. But while there are likely tepuis which still have yet to experience sweaty adventurers standing on their summits, humanity has at least flown drones over most of them.
The real virgin territory comes much lower down, inside. Hundreds of tepuis are riddled with cave and crevice systems so isolated from the world that they've evolved parallel ecosystems.
According to New Scientist , only a fraction of them have ever been explored, and many of those by a single man. Meet Francesco Sauro of the University of Bologna. For the last decade, he's been traipsing through the mysterious worlds inside tepuis, where the walls are pink, where undiscovered bacteria lurk, and where you can find minerals that have never been documented before.
However, there are plenty even Sauro hasn't gotten inside. Many tepuis are only accessible from holes in the top, requiring dangerous helicopter landings in a part of the world known for extreme weather, in a country that's a model of political instability. You might die trying to get inside, but at least you'll die knowing you were first. There are six total "visited" islands north of Kaffeklubben, Greenland. Read on.
Take, for instance, Oodaaq Island. It was discovered in by Uffe Petersen, a Danish scientist mapping north Greenland with his team. They were hanging out on Kaffeklubben, thought to be the northernmost of the Greenland islands, when they saw a speck out yonder.
They flew over, and sure enough, there was an "island" there. Well, really a gravel bar, but it counted. Petersen named it after an Eskimo sledge driver who'd been part of Robert Peary's North Pole expedition in While some sources say it hasn't been seen since it was discovered, that's not technically true.
Fast-forward to the early s, when Dr. Peter Skaffe, a Danish anthropologist, was filming and studying the northern islands. Even though an expedition in the sea north of Kaffeklubben saw no trace of Oodaaq, Skaffe found that only eight days later, his camera had caught a glimpse of the small island. Want to see it? Well, if sea levels continue to rise , it might be best to hang on Kaffeklubben instead and check out the crazy arctic flowers. In , BBC Future sat down with the chairman of the Mount Everest Foundation screening committee, Lindsay Griffin, for a piece on mountains humanity had never climbed.
While Griffin identified many well-known unclimbed peaks say hello again to Gangkhar Puensum! According to Griffin, "there are infinitely more unclimbed peaks than there are climbed ones.
Griffin should know what he's talking about. When the BBC spoke with him, he had "at least 65" previously unclimbed mountains under his belt.
His method? He just identified the untrendy peaks and climbed them. Since they're not the highest or hardest, most of these mountains are basically ignored by the world.
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