Showing posts with label Phenomenon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phenomenon. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

What are some of the best rare natural phenomena that occur on Earth?

 


One of the world's most spectacular mass migrations takes place every year at the Gahirmatha Beach in Odisha. Every year starting in November, there is huge migration of Olive Ridley Sea turtles to this beach, for mating and nesting, where they lay their eggs. This is the only beach in India, where this occurs, and it is estimated that the nesting figure, could be as large as 500,00 though of late, there has been a decline due to rampant poaching, and attacks from predators like dogs, sea gulls. The turtles travel all the way from Sri Lankan coast to the beach, where they indulge in mass mating and courtship, after which the eggs are laid. Holes are dug in the sand, by the turtles themselves using their flippers, to a depth of 45 cm and lay between 100-180 eggs at a time. After 50-60 days, the eggs are hatched, and the hatchlings make it back to sea, one of the most spectacular sights, watching the tiny ones reaching the sea en masse. It is also the time, when predators, attack the tiny hatchlings, and it's estimated only 1 in a 1000 survives.


Chandipur

Another unique natural phenomena, at the Chandipur Beach, when the sea tide recedes during low tide, about 1 to 4 km. You can literally walk into the sea during that time.

Loktak Lake


Loktak Lake in Manipur, is noted for it's phumdis or floating islands, which are basically masses of vegetation and soil. The largest of these Phumdis in South East of lake, makes up the famed Keibul Lamjao National Park, the world's only floating park.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

What is an impressive natural phenomenon that very few people know about?

 The passage of these giants in the middle of the coasts of the North Sea.

In the photo a mammoth iceberg almost 50 meters high passing near the Canadian village of Ferryland (province of Newfoundland and Labrador). That area of ​​the Atlantic Ocean is known as Iceberg Alley , precisely because of the passage of these beasts .

About 600 km off Ferryland , one of them struck and sank a famous ocean liner on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912. The name need not be specified.