It would seem that the era of geographical discoveries and active development of new lands remained in the distant past. However, there are 7 places on Earth where people have never been or have visited a few times. Therefore, romantics, adventurers and just lovers of travel have a chance to leave their mark on history.
Namib Desert
The Namib Desert stretches along the ocean coast through the territory of 3 countries: Angola, Namibia and South Africa. This is one of the most terrifying and inhospitable places on the globe, so it comes as no surprise that much of it remains unexplored.
The name of the desert was given by local natives. You can translate it with the phrase "empty space". It is believed that a sandy area of about 100 thousand square meters. km in the southwest of the African continent was formed when dinosaurs were still walking on Earth.
People in the Namib Desert live only on the Atlantic coast. Earlier, tribes that were engaged in gathering roamed across Namib. Now in the desert you can meet pastoralists, but they try not to go far from the existing wells. The latter were created near the caravan routes.
Some parts of the desert are now recognized as national parks.
Muchu Chhish, Pakistan
The seven-thousander Muchu-Chkhish is a challenge to all climbers in the world. Until now, not a single person has been able to climb it.
The Muchu-Chkhish summit is included in the Karakorum massif in Pakistan. It is adjacent to the huge Batura glacier. People are constantly trying to conquer her, but they fail. Since 2003, climbing this mountain has been banned, but especially persistent foreign citizens manage to bypass it.
The last time the mountain was stormed in 2014 was a climber from the UK, Peter Thompson. He climbed to an altitude of only 6 km and due to a lack of equipment was forced to leave the route. Before him, the Spaniards tried to conquer the peak, who visited the level of 6650 m.
In 2020, the Czechs announced their intention to climb Muchu-Chkhish, but they could not reach the summit either. However, maybe very soon this Pakistani peak will leave the rating of unexplored places on the planet.
Forests in northern Myanmar
One of the largest forests in Southeast Asia covers an area of more than 30 thousand square meters. km at the junction of three countries - India, Myanmar and China.
The local subtropical forest is one of the least explored places in the world. The reasons for the fact that scientists appear here very rarely are considered:
- remoteness of the region;
- limited access to it;
- harsh landscape (and besides the impenetrable forest, there are also swamps and mountains).
However, what is already known about this forest area suggests that in the future, the scientific community here expects a lot of discoveries. Take, for example, a new species of small deer discovered in the local forests in 1997.
People do not live in the northern forest of Myanmar, but hunters from China, who make money by selling exotic animals, periodically raid this virgin corner of nature.
Karjiang I, Tibet
Mount Karjiang with 5 peaks, each with its own name, is located in China in the Himalayas. To this day, only one peak of the mountain remains unconquered - the southern one (Karjiang I). This is the highest (7221 m) point of Mount Karjiang.
Attempts to conquer this peak have been made several times. In 1986, Japanese climbers were able to climb the peak of Karjiang II with a height of 7045 m. At the beginning of this century, the Danes gathered at Karjiang I, but did not reach it because of bad weather conditions and were content with climbing Karjiang III (6820 m). In 2010, another expedition was denied permission by the Chinese authorities to climb Karjiang. Since then, no one else has tried to conquer this mountain.
Son Dong Cave, Vietnam
The cave is 9 thousand meters long, which makes it the largest on the planet, located near the Vietnamese city of Dong Hoi on the territory of the Phong Nya Kebang Nature Reserve. People were able to explore only 6, 5 thousand meters of this underground formation. The rest is yet to be explored.
The height of the underground vaults reaches 200 meters, that is, the cave is a spacious hall, in some places through the holes, illuminated by the rays of the sun.
Despite such an impressive size, the cave was discovered by chance only at the end of the last century. A local peasant stumbled upon her, finding himself in a bad weather in the jungle. He waited out the rain under its arches, but then he could not find this place again. The British opened it to the world for the second time in 2009.
Kankar Punsum, Bhutan
The highest mountain in the world as yet inaccessible to man is Kankar Punsum in Bhutan. It rises 7,570 meters on the border between China and Bhutan. Since 2003, any climbing it in Bhutan has been banned, because its slopes are considered sacred and closed to mere mortals. At present, the mountain can only be approached by a special path, but even for such a trip, permission should be sought from the authorities.
The ban on the conquest of any mountains above 6 thousand meters in Bhutan has existed since 1994. After the appearance of such a restriction, in 1998, Japanese climbers decided to conquer Kankar-Punsum from China. Fearing a protest from the Bhutanese government, China did not give permission for the rise. Therefore, the Japanese climbed to the neighboring peak, which belongs to China. And then they also made a statement that in fact Mount Kankar-Punsum is located in China, and not in Bhutan, which caused an international scandal.
9/10 the bottom of the oceans
We have an idea of the approximate relief of the bottom of the Earth's oceans. Detailed maps were compiled using satellites that did not take very high-quality images from Earth's orbit. However, it is still not possible to walk along the ocean floor, take soil samples, and maybe even discover new forms of life.
However, the study of the ocean depths is progressing by leaps and bounds. Researchers have already managed to visit the deepest part of the ocean - the Mariana Trench. In 2012, the famous director James Cameron plunged into it in a special bathyscaphe. And after it, 15 people have already descended to a depth of about 11 thousand meters.
