Malolotja Nature Reserve, often referred to as Malolotja National Park, lies in the northwestern highlands of Eswatini, close to the South African border. Covering more than 18,000 hectares, it protects one of the country’s largest areas of mountain wilderness, with rolling grasslands, deep valleys, wetlands, woodland, and mistbelt forest.

Molokai, island, in Kalawao County, administered by Maui County, central Hawaii, between Oahu and Maui islands, known as the Friendly Island. On the southern coast of Molokai is the port of Kaunakakai. The island rises to 1512 m (4961 ft) in the east at Kamakou Peak. Pineapples, coffee, and cattle are raised. In 1873Father Damien, the Belgian Roman Catholic missionary, began his work in the leper colony of Kalawao on the Kalaupapa Peninsula of northern Molokai.

Pongara National Park protects a broad coastal landscape on the southern side of Gabon’s Komo Estuary, across the water from Libreville. Covering more than 96,000 hectares, the park includes Atlantic beaches, mangrove forests, tidal mudflats, lagoons, freshwater swamps, riverine forest and grassy savanna.

Temirtau is an industrial city in central Kazakhstan, located in the Karaganda Region on the Nura River near the Samarkand Reservoir. Its landscape combines broad steppe with the waterways and low hills of central Kazakhstan, while the city itself is strongly associated with metallurgy and heavy industry. Large industrial facilities form an important part of its skyline and local economy.

Set at the meeting point of Brazil and Argentina, Foz do Iguaçu is defined by the sheer scale of the Iguaçu Falls. Nearly 275 individual waterfalls stretch across close to three kilometers, sending mist into the air and sound echoing through the surrounding forest. Visitors follow raised walkways that bring them face to face with this moving wall of water, culminating at the dramatic Devil’s Throat, a deep, curved drop where the river seems to vanish into the earth.