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| Arches National Park |
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Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
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| Park Güell |
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Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part...
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| Isle Royale National Park |
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Isle Royale National Park is a U.S. National Park in the state of Michigan. Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles (72 km) in length and 9 miles (14 km) wide at its widest point. The park is made of Isle Royale itself and...
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A national park is a reserve of natural or semi-natural land, declared or owned by a national government, set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, and protected from most development. While ideas for national parks had been suggested previously...
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| Yellowstone National Park |
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Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress as a national park on March 1, 1872, is located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho. The park was the first of its kind, and is known for...
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| Central Park |
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Central Park is a large public, urban park that occupies over a square mile (341 hectares) in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. It is host to approximately twenty-five million visitors each year. Central Park was opened in 1859, completed in...
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| Grant Park |
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Grant Park (originally named Lake Park) is a large park (319 acres or 1.29 km²) in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain and the Art Institute of...
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| North Cascades National Park |
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North Cascades National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the state of Washington.
The park complex consists of 684,000 acres (1,069 sq mi) of the Cascade Range in four separate, yet adjoined, units: North Cascades National Park North Unit,...
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| Grand Teton National Park |
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Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. The park is named after the Grand Teton, which, at 13,770 feet (4,197 m), is the tallest mountain in the Teton Range.
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| Death Valley National Park |
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Death Valley National Park is a mostly arid United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in southern Inyo County and northern San Bernardino County in California, with a small extension into southwestern Nye County...
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| Grand Canyon National Park |
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Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world. The park...
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| Bryce Canyon National Park |
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Bryce Canyon National Park (pronounced /ˈbraɪs/) is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within the park is Bryce Canyon. Despite its name, this is not actually a canyon, but rather a giant natural...
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| Yosemite National Park |
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Yosemite National Park (pronounced /joʊˈsɛmɨtiː/ yo-SEM-it-ee) is a national park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,266 acres (308,073 ha)...
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| Organ Pipes National Park |
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The Organ Pipes National Park is a 121-ha protected area in Victoria, Australia, 23 km north-west of Melbourne.
The park was established in the year 1972 on what was then degraded farmland around the gully formed by Jackson's Creek in an attempt to...
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| Dandenong Ranges National Park |
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Dandenong Ranges National Park is in Victoria (Australia), 38 km east of Melbourne.
Because the park is located in an urban area, the park has a long history of major problems with feral and roaming animals. A cat-curfew was introduced in the entire...
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| Wilsons Promontory National Park |
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Wilsons Promontory National Park, commonly known as Wilsons Prom or The Prom, is a national park in the Gippsland region of Victoria (Australia), 157 km southeast of Melbourne.
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| Rock Creek Park |
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Rock Creek Park is a large urban natural area with public park facilities that bisects Washington, D.C. The park is administered by the National Park Service.
The main section of the park contains 1,754 acres (7.10 km) along the Rock Creek Valley —...
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| Namadgi National Park |
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Namadgi National Park is located in the southwestern part of the Australian Capital Territory, bordering Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales. It lies approximately 40 km southwest of Canberra, and makes up approximately 46% of the ACT's land...
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| Carnarvon National Park |
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Carnarvon National Park is located in the Southern Brigalow Belt bioregion in Central Queensland (Australia), 593 km northwest of Brisbane. It began life as a 26,304 hectare reserve gazetted in 1932 to protect Carnarvon Gorge for its outstanding...
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| Alpine National Park | Protected Site |
The Alpine National Park is a national park in Victoria (Australia), northeast of Melbourne. It covers much of the higher areas of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, including Victoria's highest point, Mount Bogong and the associated subalpine...
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| Little Desert National Park | Protected Site |
The Little Desert National Park is in Victoria, Australia), 375 kilometres west of Melbourne. It extends from the Wimmera River in the east to near Naracoorte over the South Australian border in the west.
It was established in the late 1960s after...
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| Doñana National Park |
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Donana National Park | Protected Site |
Doñana National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional de Doñana), also called Coto de Doñana, is a national park and wildlife refuge in southwestern Spain.
Doñana National Park is located in Andalusia, in the provinces of Huelva and Seville, and covers 543...
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| Triglav National Park |
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Triglav National Park (Slovene: Triglavski narodni park) is a national park located in Slovenia. It was named after mount Triglav, a national symbol of Slovenia.
Triglav is situated almost in the middle of the national park. From it the valleys...
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| Serengeti National Park |
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The Serengeti National Park (2°19′58″S 34°34′00″E / 2.33278°S 34.5666667°E / -2.33278; 34.5666667) is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous for its annual migration of over one million and a half white bearded (or...
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| Acadia National Park |
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Acadia National Park preserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast of Maine. Originally inhabited by the Wabanaki people, the area includes mountains, an ocean shoreline, woodlands, and lakes. In...
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| Mount Eccles National Park | Protected Site |
Mount Eccles National Park is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 270 km west of Melbourne.
Mount Eccles is located inside the national park and is the site of the most recent active volcano in Australia. The first activity was about 40.000...
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| Mount Buffalo National Park |
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Mount Buffalo is a mountain plateau in Victoria (Australia), 200 km northeast of Melbourne. It is one of the oldest parks in the Australian Alps, being first established in 1898 when 1165 ha was reserved around Eurobin Falls. In 1908 it was expanded...
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| Grampians National Park |
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The Grampians National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 235 kilometres west of Melbourne. The Park was listed on the National Heritage List on 15 December 2006 for its outstanding natural beauty and being one of the richest Indigenous...
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| Mammoth Cave National Park |
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Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge under...
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| Great Barrier Reef Marine Park | Protected Site |
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. Fishing and the removal of artifacts or wildlife (fish, coral, sea shells etc) is strictly regulated, and commercial shipping...
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| Letchworth State Park |
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Letchworth State Park is a New York state park located 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Rochester and 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Buffalo in Livingston and Wyoming Counties. The park is roughly 17 miles (24 km) long, covering 14,350 acres (58 km) of...
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| Tumucumaque National Park | Protected Site |
The Tumucumaque National Park (too-moo-koo-MAH-key) is situated in northwestern Brazil inside the Amazon Rainforest state of Amapá. It’s bordered by French Guyana and Suriname.
It was declared a national park on August 23, 2002, with the...
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| Basket Swamp National Park | Protected Site |
Basket Swamp is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 558 km north of Sydney, and 15 kilometres north east of Tenterfield.
The park is named after Basket Swamp, a waterlogged area in the western sector of the park.
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| Point Pelee National Park |
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Point Pelee National Park (pronounced /ˈpiːliː/; French Parc National de la Pointe-Pelée) extends from the mainland of Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It consists of a peninsula of land, mainly of marsh and woodland habitats, that...
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| Abercrombie River National Park | Protected Site |
Abercrombie River is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, located 138 km west of Sydney.
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| Bago Bluff National Park |
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Bago Bluff is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), approximately 410 km northeast of Sydney. It is situated south west of Wauchope and includes parts of the former Broken Bago State Forest and a part of Lorne State Forest. The Bago Bluff...
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| Bald Rock National Park |
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Bald Rock National Park is a national park in northern New South Wales, Australia, just north of Tenterfield on the Queensland border. On the other side of the border the national park continues as the Girraween National Park.
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| Barakee National Park | Protected Site |
Barakee is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 257 km north of Sydney.
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| Barool National Park | Protected Site |
Barool is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 479 km north of Sydney.
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| Barrington Tops National Park |
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Barrington Tops is a National Park in the Hunter Valley, approximately 200 kilometres (124 mi) north of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The nearest towns are Scone, Singleton, Dungog, Gloucester and East Gresford.
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| Bellinger River National Park | Protected Site |
Bellinger River is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), about 555 km northeast of Sydney. The main feature of the park is the Bellinger River and the unspoilt forests on its upper reaches.
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| Ben Boyd National Park |
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Ben Boyd is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 382 km south of Sydney. It is named after the entrepreneur Ben Boyd who had a variety of interests in the far South Coast of New South Wales including whaling and farming. He commissioned...
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| Ben Halls Gap National Park | Protected Site |
Ben Halls Gap is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 251 km north of Sydney.
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| Biamanga National Park | Protected Site |
Biamanga is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 307 km southwest of Sydney.
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| Bimberamala National Park | Location |
Bimberamala is a national park in New South Wales, Australia. It is located thirty kilometers west of Batemans Bay and ten kilometers north of Kings Highway.
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| Bindarri National Park | Protected Site |
Bindarri is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 431 km northeast of Sydney.
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| Biriwal Bulga National Park | Protected Site |
Biriwal Bulga is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 284 km northeast of Sydney.
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| Blue Mountains National Park |
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The Blue Mountains National Park is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 81 km west of Sydney, and located in the Blue Mountains region of the Great Dividing Range. The park covers 267,954 hectares, and the boundary of the park is quite...
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| Bongil Bongil National Park | Protected Site |
Bongil Bongil is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 427 km northeast of Sydney.
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| Boonoo Boonoo National Park | Protected Site |
Boonoo Boonoo is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 571 km north of Sydney and 26 kilometres north east of Tenterfield off Woodenbong Road.
The Boonoo Boonoo River passes through the park and includes a 210 metre waterfall and a...
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| Booti Booti National Park | Protected Site |
Booti Booti is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 222 kilometres (138 mi) northeast of Sydney.
The first European to inhabit the area was a Captain J. Gogerly who sailed from Forster to Sydney with loads of timber. He and some of his...
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| Border Ranges National Park |
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Border Ranges National Park, 636 km north of Sydney, Australia, is a World Heritage listed area, part of the UNESCO CERRA World Heritage listing, which extends from New South Wales into Queensland and the adjacent Lamington National Park. Notable...
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| Botany Bay National Park | Protected Site |
Botany Bay National Park is a national park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia located approximately 16 km south east of the Sydney central business district, on the northern and southern headlands of Botany Bay. The northern headland is at La...
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| Bouddi National Park | Protected Site |
Bouddi National Park is located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 44 km northeast of Sydney. A section of the national park extends into the sea creating fully protected land, shore and marine habitats. The Park contains one of the...
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| Bournda National Park |
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Bournda National Park is a 2,600 ha protected area in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, managed as a national park by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, and was established on April 24, 1992. It is 345 km southwest of Sydney near Tathra....
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| Brindabella National Park | Protected Site |
Brindabella is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 266 km southwest of Sydney in the Brindabella Ranges.
On the 8th of January a fire started there and it became one of the most well known fires in Australia.
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| Broadwater National Park |
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Broadwater is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 577 km northeast of Sydney.
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| Budawang National Park |
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Budawang is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 200 km southwest of Sydney. It contains part of the Budawang Mountain Range.
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| Budderoo National Park | Protected Site |
Budderoo is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 99 km southwest of Sydney, best known for the timber boardwalk through the Minnamurra rainforest. The park features waterfalls, picnic and barbecue areas, a visitors center.
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