New 7 Wonder in the Word 2012

1.Jeju Island di  South Korea

Gambar: Waves crashing on Jeju seashore.

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Early historyCheonjiyeon Waterfall in Jeju Island.Waves crashing on the coast of Jeju.Mount Halla in Jeju.Cheonjiyeon Waterfall in Jeju.According to legend, three demi-gods emerged from Samsung hyeol is said to have been on the northern slope of Mt. Halla and became the ancestors of Jeju people who founded the Kingdom of Tamna.It has also been stated that the three brothers including Ko-hu who Koulla 15 offspring, one of the ancestors of Jeju people, were received by the court upon which the Tamna Silla officially recognized name, while the official government posts of Commander, Prince and Governor of the given by a court of three.However, there is no concrete evidence of when the "Three Names" (Samseong-Ko, Yang and Pu) appeared nor to the exact date of when Ko-hu and his brothers received by Silla. It could be argued that the period of the founders of the "Three Names" occurred during the Three Kingdoms (Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla) period on the mainland of Korea.Taejo, the founder of Goryeo, trying to build a similar relationship between Goryeo and Tamna as Tamna have to Silla. Tamna court rejected this position and Goryeo sent troops to force Tamna to surrender. Gyeon co-ja, head Tamna, submitted to Goryeo in 938 and sent his son, Prince Mallo, to Goryeo court as hostages de-facto. At 1105 (the 10th year of King Sukjong it), the Goryeo court abolished Takna current name should have been used, and from that year on, the island is known as "Tamna-gun" (district) and Goryeo officials were sent to handle the affairs of the island.Tamna-state transformed into Tamna-area in 1153 during the reign of King Uijong and Choi Cheok-kyeong was posted as Tamna-Myeong or Chief Tamna. Year 1121 during the reign Huijong, Tamna renamed "Jeju" and the writings of Justice was established on the island.At 1271, General Kim Tong-jeong escaped with what remained of his strength Sambyeolcho of Jindo and built Fort Hangpadu in Kwiil-chon from where they continue their struggle against the Korea joint military Mongolia government but within 2 years, facing the enemy more than 10,000 army troops, Sambyeolcho was destroyed.Modern historyJeju uprising, 1948Main article: Jeju UprisingJeju uprising, which began on 3 April 1948, is part of a larger problem in Korea today. Uprising in Jeju-do, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of officers, an armed organization, and the villagers together culminated in widespread violence on the island and the center of the island (Halla Mountain) is listed as "enemy zone" by the government of the Republic of Korea. More than 30,000 people have died due to some villagers and communist radicals were both imprisoned in internment camps under the government's mainland policy.While claims have been made that the U.S. government oversee and support the "anti-communist" activities administratively if not openly in the field, validation is still to be made. It is a fact the U.S. is heavily involved in counter-insurgency operations in Korea is currently ahead of the Korean War and UN involvement. Similarly, Northwest Youth League, sponsored by the Korean government watch-dog group consists of refugees who fled north Korea, is actively suppressed any and all "communist sympathizer" with a passionate campaign of shooting on sight anyone entering or leaving the "enemies of the president zones" , rape / violation, torturing, and killing hundreds of islanders using open armed violence and what today would be labeled as terrorist activities. Intolerance by the official Korean mainland from the island in general at the time of isolation, governments and organizations that sponsored the island, and is rumored to cover up evidence linking suppressing the rebellion by foreign powers and people today go un-prosecuted is believed to be the major cause of public ignorance, hedging on denial , long, 3 April 1948 genocide in Cheju-do. A documentary by the BBC and PBS, Korea: War is not known and many activities and publications by the organization and the people of Cheju-do in and around the world continue to try to shed light on this event.Provincial administration building burned down in September 1948 and a new building was completed in one-do, 2-dong in December, 1952.

2.Halong Bay  Vietnam

Gambar 2: Ha Long Bay

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Ha Long Bay (Vietnam: Vinh Ha Long, On the sounds are listened to, literally: "the bay off the dragon") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular tourist destination, located in the province of Quang Ninh, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay's Ha Long City, Cam Pha town, and part of Van Don district. Bay has thousands of limestone karsts and islands of various sizes and shapes. Ha Long Bay is the centerpiece of a larger zone that includes Bai Tu long bay to the northeast, and Cat Ba island in the southwest. This zone is bigger share similar geology, geography, geomorphology, climate, culture and character.

Ha Long Bay has an area of ​​approximately 1553 km2, including the island from 1.960 to 2.000, which is mostly limestone. The core of the bay has an area of ​​334 km2 with a high density of 775 islands.

limestone in this bay has over 500 million years of formation in different environments and conditions. Evolution of karst in this bay has taken 20 million years under the influence of the tropical wet climate. geo-environmental diversity in the area have created biodiversity, including tropical evergreen Biosystems, sea and sea shore Biosystems Ha Long Bay is home to 14 species of endemic flora. [4] and 60 endemic species of fauna.

3. guazu / Iguaçu Falls (National Park)   Argentina,  Brazil

Gambar: guazu / Iguaçu Falls (National Park)

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Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu [kataɾatɐz du iɡwasu]; Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú [kataɾatas del iɣwasu]; Guarani: Chororo Yguasu [ɕoɾoɾo asu ɨɣ ʷ]) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian State of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones. Falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. Iguazu rivers originate near the city of Curitiba. Flows through Brazil for most of the tracks. Under a meeting with the San Antonio River, Iguazu River forms the boundary between Brazil and Argentina.
Union Fall, cataracts largest Iguazu
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Video Clip: Panoramic views of the falls

The name "Iguazu" comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y [ɨ], ​​which means "water", and ûasú [wasu], which means "big" Legend has it that a god planned to marry a beautiful woman named Naipí, who fled with her ​​mortal lover Tarobá in a boat. In anger the god sliced ​​the river creating the waterfalls and condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to discover the waterfall is a Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Alvar Nunez in 1541.

4. Puerto Princesa Underground River    Philippines

                    (Gambar: Puerto Princesa Underground River)

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Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of downtown Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. The river is also called the Puerto Princesa Underground River. This national park is located in the mountains of Saint Paul on the northern coast of the island. It is bordered by St Paul's Bay in the north and east Babuyan River. City Government of Puerto Princesa has managed the Park since 1992. It is also known as the St. Paul Subterranean River National Park, or St. Paul Underground River. The entrance to the Subterranean River is a short hike from the town of Sabang.

In 2010, some environmentalists and geologists discovered that an underground river has the second floor (so that means there is a small waterfall in the cave). They also found a larger cave dome measuring 300 feet above an underground river, unusual rock formations, large bats, holes in the river, another river channel, the deepest cave, marine animals, and more. And because it's very dark inside and very difficult to get oxygen and harmful to humans, they do not find what the deeper mysteries of the deep underground river.

On 11 November 2011, Puerto Princesa Underground River was temporarily selected as one of the New7Wonders of Nature. This option was officially confirmed on January 28, 2012.

5. Table Mountain (National Park)  South Africa

           (Gambar: Table Mountain (National Park))

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Table Mountain (Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is displayed in the Flag of Cape Town and other local government emblem This is a significant tourist. attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the summit. This mountain is part of the Table Mountain National Park.
The main feature of Table Mountain is a level plateau approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) from side to side, bordered with impressive cliffs. Plateau, flanked to the east of Devils Peak and Lions Head to the west, forming a dramatic backdrop to Cape Town. This broad sweep of the mountain heights, together with Signal Hill, forming a natural amphitheater of the City Bowl and Table Bay harbor. The highest point on Table Mountain is a plateau towards the east end and marked by Maclear Beacon, a stone cairn was built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1086 meters (3563 feet) above sea level, about 19 meters (62 feet) higher than the cable station at the western end of the plateau.

The main cliff plateau divided by Platteklip Gorge ("Flat Stone Gorge"), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.

The top flat of the mountain is often covered by orographic clouds, formed when the wind south-east directed upwards into the cold mountain slopes, where the moisture condenses to form what is called the "tablecloth" of clouds. Legend attributes this phenomenon to smoking contest between the devil and the local pirate called Van Hunks. When the tablecloth looks, it symbolizes the contest.

6.      Amazon Rainforest and River 

Bolivia,  Brazil,  Colombia,  Ecuador,  France (French Guiana),  Guyana,  Peru,  Suriname,  Venezuela

                    (Gambar: Amazon Rainforest and River)

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"Amazonia" redirects here. For other uses, see Amazonian (disambiguation).Semi-protected pagesAmazon RainforestForestAmazon rainforest, near Manaus, Brazil.Countries Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, French (French Guyana)Part of South AmericaRiver Amazon RiverArea of ​​5.5 million km2 (2,123,562 sq mi)Map of the Amazon rain forest ecoregion as delineated by the WWF. Yellow lines wrap around the Amazon basin. National boundaries shown in black. Satellite imagery from NASA.Amazon Rain Forest (in Portuguese, Floresta Amazonica or Amazon region; Spain Selva Amazonica, or regular Amazonia Amazonia), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by rain forest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. Contained most of the forests in Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with a small amount, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana. States or departments in four states contain "Amazonas" in their names. Amazon is more than half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it consists of the largest channels and the most species-rich tropical rainforest in the world.Rainforest likely formed during the Eocene era. It turned out that after the global downturn when the tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures have been widened enough to provide a warm and humid climate to the Amazon basin. Rainforests have been around for at least 55 million years, and most of the region remained free of savanna biome type at least until the current ice age, when the climate is drier and more extensive savanna.After the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, the extinction of dinosaurs and wet climate may have allowed the tropical rainforest to spread across the continent. From 65-34 Mya, the rainforest extended as far south as 45 °. Climatic fluctuations over the last 34 million years have allowed savanna regions to expand into the tropics. During the Oligocene, for example, stretches of rain forest a relatively narrow band that lies mostly above latitude 15 ° N. It expanded again during the Middle Miocene, then retracted to the formation of most of the mainland in the last glacial maximum. However, the rain forests are still able to grow during the glacial period, allowing for the survival and evolution of the vast diversity of species.Amazon rainforest is taken from the planeDuring the middle Eocene, it is believed that the watershed of the Amazon was split along the middle of the continent by the Purus Arch. Water on the east side flows into the Atlantic, while for the water flowing to the west Pacific in Amazonas Basin. As the Andes Mountains rose, however, a large basin was created that enclosed a lake, now known as the Solimões Basin. In the last 5-10 million years, it collects water through the Purus Arch, joining the flow east toward the Atlantic.There is evidence that there have been significant changes in Amazon rainforest vegetation over the last 21,000 years through the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and subsequent deglaciation. Analysis of sediment deposits from Amazon basin and paleolakes of Amazon Fan indicate that rainfall in the basin during the LGM is lower than for the present, and this is almost certainly associated with reduced moist tropical vegetation cover in the basin [8]. There is debate, however, over how extensive this reduction. Some scientists argue that the rainforest was reduced to small, isolated refugia separated by open forest and grassland, other scientists argue that the rainforest remained largely intact but extended less far to the north, south and east than is seen today. This debate has proved difficult to resolve because the practical limitations of working in the rain forest means that the data sampling is biased away from the central Amazon basin, and both explanations are quite well supported by available data.Human activityBased on archaeological evidence from excavations at Caverna da Pedra Pintada, the first human population settled in the Amazon region at least 11 200 years ago [11] further development led to the end of the prehistoric settlements along the edge of the forest by 1250 AD. Induced changes in forest cover [12]. Biologists believe that the population density of 0.2 inhabitants per square kilometer (0.52 / sq mi) is the maximum that can be maintained in the rain forest through hunting, the farm needed to host a larger population.For a long time, it was thought that the Amazon rain forest sparsely populated, because it is not possible to sustain a large population through agriculture given the poor soil. Archaeologist Betty J. Meggers is a major supporter of this idea, as explained in his book Amazonia: Man and Culture in Counterfeit Paradise. However, recent anthropological findings indicate that the area actually populated. 5-7000000 Some people may have lived in the Amazon region, divided between dense coastal settlements, such as those in Marajó, and rural residents.Since 1970, many geoglyphs have been found in the barren land a date between 0-1250 AD, led to claims about the Pre-Columbian civilizations. [14] The Unnatural History of the BBC presented evidence that the Amazon rain forest, rather than a pristine wilderness, has been shaped by humans for at least 11,000 years through practices such as forest gardening and terra preta.Terra preta (black earth), which are distributed over large areas in the Amazon jungle, is now widely accepted as a product of customary land management. These developments allowed fertile agricultural land and silviculture in previously hostile environment, which means that most of the Amazon rain forest may be the result of centuries of human management, not naturally occurring as previously supposed [16] In the region. of interest Xinguanos, remains of several large settlements in the Amazon forest was discovered in 2003 by Michael Heckenberger and colleagues from the University of Florida. Among them is the proof of roads, bridges and a large plaza.The first European to travel the length of the Amazon River was Francisco de Orellana in 1542 [18] The Unnatural History of the BBC documentary presented evidence that Francisco de Orellana, not exaggerated claims as previously thought, is correct in his observations. An advanced civilization that developed along the Amazon in the 1540's. It is believed that civilization was later destroyed by the spread of European diseases like smallpox.

7.      Komodo Island (National Park) Indonesia

Gambar: Komodo Island (National Park)

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Jump to: navigation, searchKomodoNorthern tip of the islandGeographyLocation of Southeast AsiaCoordinates 8.55 ° S 119.45 ° ECoordinates: 8.55 ° S 119.45 ° EIslands of the Lesser Sunda IslandsArea of ​​390 km2 (151 sq mi)StateIndonesiaEast Nusa Tenggara ProvinceDemographyPopulation of c. 2000Bugis ethnic group, othersKomodo is one of 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. The island is very famous as a natural habitat of Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizard and consequently named the islands. Komodo island has a surface area of ​​390 km ² and a population of more than 2,000 permanent. These islanders are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and which have been mixed with the Bugis from Sulawesi. The population is primarily adherents of Islam but there are also Christian and Hindu community.Komodo is a part of the Lesser Sunda island chain and is part of the Park. In addition, the island is a popular destination for diving. Administratively, it is part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara.The earliest stories of dragons that have circulated widely in the region and attract attention. But no one visited the island to check out the story until the official interest erupted in the early 1910s by the story of the Dutch sailors based in Flores about a mysterious creature. The creature was allegedly a "dragon" who inhabited a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (main islands of Flores in East Nusa Tenggara).Dutch sailors reported that the creature was measured up to seven meters in length with a great body and mouth are always spits fire. Hearing the report, Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek, an official of the Dutch colonial administration in Flores, planning a trip to Komodo Island. He armed himself, and accompanied by a team of soldiers he landed on the island. After a few days, Hensbroek managed to kill one of the strange animal.Van Hensbroek take the animal to the central office where the measurement is made. That's about 2.1 meters, with a shape very similar to a lizard. More samples were then photographed by Peter A. Ouwens, Director of the Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Java. Records made the first reliable documentation Ouwens details on what is now called Komodo dragons or monitor.Ouwens are keen to obtain additional samples. He hired hunters to kill two dragons measuring 3.1 meters and 3.35 meters and caught two children, each measuring less than one meter. Ouwens doing research on the samples and concluded that the dragon is not a flamethrower, but it is the type of monitor lizard. The results of this study was published in 1912. Ouwens named the giant lizard Varanus komodoensis, better known as the Komodo dragon. Recognizing the importance of the island of Komodo dragons in the endangered species, the Dutch government issued regulations on the protection on the island of Komodo dragons in 1915.Komodo dragons become a living legend. In the decade since the dragons are found, a variety of scientific expeditions from various countries have conducted field research on the island of Komodo dragons.Komodo has been included in the list of controversial New7Wonders of Nature since November May 11, 2011.