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The mountains, islands and countries we have made pieces of, and what makes their terrain worth a closer look.
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Much of Gotland's bedrock is ancient coral reef from a tropical sea 430 million years ago. On the sea stacks of Fårö, the tilt of the island, its cliffs and what shows when the whole island becomes a relief.
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3,776 metres, a crater at the top and an eruption from the side in 1707. Why Mount Fuji's cone is so even, what happened the last time it was active, and why it became a cultural World Heritage Site.
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Punta Penia, at 3,343 metres, is the highest point in the Dolomites, and on its north side lies the range's only large glacier. On the mountain's two faces, what the ice measurements show and the summer of 2022.
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1,883 metres, a view over some 50,000 square kilometres, a train inside the mountain and a town below that the sun does not reach in winter. On Gaustatoppen and Rjukan.
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Gjende lies at around 985 metres, Bessvatnet at 1,373, and a narrow ridge keeps them apart. On the two lakes, the hike over Veslfjellet and Ibsen's Gjendin ridge.
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The fjord is 258 metres deep at most, the mountains around it 1,400 to 1,700. How the ice dug it, the S-bend, the waterfalls, the World Heritage listing and why the fjord becomes a hole in the relief.
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Elbrus or Mont Blanc? The answer depends not on the mountains but on where the line between Europe and Asia is drawn. Here are the two boundaries, the summits and why both answers exist.
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Three summits between 3,967 and 4,158 metres in one north-facing wall. The Eiger north face, the railway through the mountain to the Jungfraujoch, the Aletsch Glacier on the south side and the valleys below.
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Lake Como is an upside-down Y, around 410 metres deep, with its floor more than 200 metres below sea level. On the ice that dug it, the arm that leads nowhere and Bellagio at the junction.
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The mountains in the west, the river valleys of Norrland, the great lakes in the middle and the flat plain of Skåne. What a 3D map of Sweden actually shows, from Kebnekaise to the country's lowest point.
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The south peak carries a glacier and is shrinking. The north peak is bare rock and stays put. Since 2019 the north peak has been Sweden's highest point - and the numbers in books and on maps are still catching up.
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The cable car takes you to 3,550 metres. From there to the summit you need a permit applied for in advance, and the number of places is tightly capped. On the rules, the caldera and the mountain.