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The Tallulah Gorge
is a gorge that is formed by the Tallulah River cutting through the Tallulah Dome rock formation. The
gorge is approximately 2 miles long and
features rocky cliffs up to 1,000 feet high. Through it, a series of falls known as Tallulah Falls drop a total of 150
metres in one mile. Tallulah Falls is
actually composed of six separate falls, Tempesta
76 ft, Hurricane the
tallest at 96 feet, Oceana
50 ft, the smooth "sliding rock" at Bridal Veil 17 ft and
Lovers Leap 16 ft. Source
Saint Lucia is a sovereign island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 617 km2 and has a population of 174,000. Its capital is Castries. One of the Windward Islands, Saint Lucia was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French, the island's first European settlers. Source
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, starting at its southernmost portion in Georgia, then ending northward in Pennsylvania. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Appalachian Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian range. Source
An aurora is a natural light display in the sky (from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise" or the Roman goddess of dawn), especially in the high latitude. Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis (or the southern lights), has features that are almost identical to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone. It is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, New Zealand, and Australia. Auroras occur on other planets. Similar to the Earth's aurora, they are visible close to the planet's magnetic poles. Source
The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. Although not the largest natural
satellite in the Solar System, it is, among the satellites of major planets. The
Moon is thought to have formed nearly 4.5 billion years ago, not long after
Earth. Although there have been several hypotheses for its origin in the past,
the current most widely accepted explanation is that the Moon formed from the
debris left over after a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body. Source
The Redwood National and State Parks are located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968). The National Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation administratively combined Redwood National Park with the three abutting Redwood State Parks in 1994 for the purpose of cooperative forest management and stabilization of forests and watersheds as a single unit. The ecosystem of the RNSP preserves a number of threatened animal species such as the Brown Pelican. Source
