Forty Wild and Natural Places
The Arctic to the Deltas of the Ganga and the Ayeyarwady

Anil Mitra, Copyright © 1993 – 2022

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Ten – The World

Arctic North from Brooks Range to North Slope
Rocky Mountains, Durango to Alberta, including Barranca del Cobre
Amazon headwaters and drainage
Nile and lakes
Niger and Congo of West Africa

Mountains and fjords of New Zealand
Siberian forests and shamans of Siberia and Mongolia
Bam-i-Dunya, Pamir – Tibetan Plateau (12K-13K ft) and Hindu Kush
Deltas of the Ganga and the Ayeyarwady
King George Island, Antarctica, and wildlife

Forty – Continents and Oceans

North America

Brooks Range, rivers, and porcupine caribou herd
Yukon-Northwest Territories – wood buffalo and Yazin Highlands
Rockies – Durango to Alberta
Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon)
Denali (McKinley)
Katmai 10,000
Gulf of Alaska – Glacier Bay and neighboring rivers, mountains, and glaciers
British Columbia tour

Asia

Siberia – 5M square miles of coniferous forests of the North (taiga)
The Siberian shamans
Bam-I-Dunya – Pamir Plateau
K-2
Hindu Kush
Deltas of the Ganges and the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy)
Lake Baikal
Mongolia

Central and South America

Amazon drainage and headwaters
Cordillera Blanca
Tierra del Fuego
Central America tour
Andes
Patagonia
Machu Picchu, Peru
Torres del Paine

Africa

Nile and lakes
Mlanje and Kilimanjaro
West Africa – Niger and Congo
Rift valley
Sahara
Kalahari – Bushmen

Europe – from Best hikes in Europe

Mont Blanc, France
Fjords, Norway
Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
The West Highland Way, Scotland
High Tatras, Slovakia

Australia and New Zealand

Corral Sea
Barrier Reef
Mountains and fjords of New Zealand
Outback
Victorian Alps

The polar regions

The Arctic—Fjords, lakes, wildlife of Ellesmere Island
Pole

Antarctica— King George Island and wildlife
Vinson Massif
Pole

Islands

Islands of the Mediterranean
Islands of the Indian Ocean

Modern Explorers and Expeditions

The Voyage of the Beagle

Challenger Expedition

Great Northern Expedition

Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Arctic – Study and Exploration (Contents at Study and Exploration)

Royal Geographical Society (expeditions)

Humboldt Glacier… world’s largest glacier

Dawson River – Australia – 1844 expedition

Arfersiorfik Fjord

The Biological Sciences (Contents at Biological expeditions)

Mount Everest – include exploration

Kosi River – Everest drainage

K2 – include Exploration

Annapurna – include ascent

Aconcagua – highest in Western Hemisphere – include Exploration

Denali – include Exploration

Denali National Park and Preserve

Ernest Henry Shackleton – Antarctic explorer

Thor Heyerdahl – Polynesian Ra Expedition

Ejnar Mikkelsen – Greenland explorer

Charles Sturt, Australian explorer