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	Roraima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roraima is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country.
		The Monte Roraima National Park is located around one of the highest mountains of Brazil, the 2727 m high Tepui Monte Roraima.
		The name of the state was taken from Monte Roraima, whose name comes from the Pemon words “roroi” (“blue-green”) and “ma” (“large”).
	hallencyclopedia.com /Roraima (629 words)

	Mount Roraima: An island forgotten by time
		Mount Roraima was made famous in 1912 when Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle wrote his fictional novel entitled The Lost World.
		Im Thurn and Perkins were not the first Europeans to see Mount Roraima, that goes to Robert Schomburgk, a German born explorer and scientist who explored the region for Britains's Royal Geographical Society in 1838.
		Mount Roraima has been studied by botanists, zoologists, geologists, herpetologists, orchidologists, ecologists, limnologists, entomologists, edaphologists and many more whose names don't mean much to mountaineers but are important to science.
	members.shaw.ca /beyondnootka/articles/roraima.html (2347 words)

	Brazil Incentives Travel Tourism Online Reservation Tours & Hotels - RORAIMA MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION
		The Roraima Mount, the seventh highest peak in Brazil is 2,739 meters (8,980 ft) high.
		The Roraima Mount Mount is part of the Tepui Mountains, which are a rare type of rock formation shaped like tables, about 2 million years old.
		Trek in the Roraima Mount plateau, in an avegage altitude of 2500m (7500 ft).
	www.bitourism.com /pd.asp?action=tp&Cid=9&Pid=21&Imid=175 (999 words)

	:: W73 Roraima Packages ::
		Mount camp, recognition of the area, photos, rest, some reflections and information about what is about to come.
		Mount camp, feed yourself, take a bath in the cold waters, recognition of the area for photos, meditation, and information about what you will have next day.
		After the mounting of the tends and to organize the equipment, you can do a small tour by the surroundings: know a small crystals valley, the bathtubs Jacuzzi and to go until the steep slope admire the horizon and all the Gran Sabana.
	www.w73.com /shopping/w73_roraima_packages.htm (415 words)

	fredson.com - tickets to Brazil, tours to Rio, Amazon and Pantanal ecotourism, hotels, carnival in Rio, new years in Rio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Roraima Mount is part of the Tepui Mountains, which are a rare type of rock formation shaped like tables, about 2 million years old.
		Roraima Mount is located on the border of Brazil, Venezuela and the French Guiana.
		In the afternoon, we reach the Roraima Mount's highest point in Venezuela, the Maverick Rock, which is 9,426 ft (2875m) high.
	www.fredsontravel.com /adventure_details.asp?adventureID=7 (823 words)

	Rorima tepui in the Gran Sabana of Venezuela.
		With 9,219 feet of height, Roraima is the tallest of the unique and eerie flat-topped, sandstone mesas known as Tepuys located in Venezuela.
		The first known tepuy to be explored and climbed, Roraima represents a never-ending place of discovery for the scientific world due to its endemic and very interesting flora and, good news, is the easiest tepuy to climb.
		Roraima means "The Mother of All Waters" in the Pemon language, a very good definition for a mountain where rivers that drain to Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil are born, but is also known as The Crystal Mountain due to its incredible quartz formations.
	www.lostworldadventures.com /countries/venezuela/vzregions/lostworld/roraima.htm (390 words)

	Roraima National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The trip to Roraima was arguably the biggest excursion that I have gone on in Venezuela.
		I found two excellent web pages about Roraima that were very helpful and also browsed tour agency web sites in order to familiarize us with their itineraries for Roraima.
		Roraima was still far in the distance at this point and we planned to hike to the base the next day.
	harryjwagner.tripod.com /Venezuela/Roraima.html (2967 words)

	Mount Roraima -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mount Roraima is the highest of the table-top (A land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill) mountains (called (additional info and facts about Tepuis) Tepuis) of the (A mountainous tableland in northern South America; extends from Venezuela into Guyana and northern Brazil) Guiana Highlands (or Guayana Highlands).
		The table mountains of the park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to the (The eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon; from about 3,800 million years ago until 544 million years ago) Precambrian Era, some two billion years ago.
		It is thought that the reports from early Victorian expeditions to the mountain inspired (English author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write his classic adventure yarn, (additional info and facts about The Lost World) The Lost World, in 1912 - now made into countless films of varying quality.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mount_roraima.htm (283 words)

	Treks to Mount Roraima and Auyan tepuy, Venezuela's best known tabletop mountains
		Mount Roraima is the highest of all, at 2710 meters (9,094 feet).
		Other curious species, also endemic to the top of the tepuys are the Stegolepis whose base is enveloped in a gelatinous substance that we ignore the purpose, and the heliamphora, a carnivorous plant.
		Contrary to the tepuyes of the Eastern Range (Roraima, Matawi, Ilu, etc.) which have a rocky, barren surface, Auyantepuy is divided by cliffs, rivers, cracks and crevices.
	www.newfrontiersadventures.com /trek/txtROR1.html (831 words)

	AllRefer.com - Roraima, Mount, Latin America & Caribbean Islands (Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography) - ...
		AllRefer.com - Roraima, Mount, Latin America & Caribbean Islands (Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Roraima, Mount, Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography
		Roraima, Mount[roorI´mu] Pronunciation Key, mountain, 9,219 ft (2,810 m) high, at the junction of the boundaries of Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RoraimaMt.html (181 words)

	Venezuela Travel >> Venezuela Voyage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roraima is the highest of the extraordinary mesa mountains that puncture the plains of the ancient shield.
		The Pemon Indians that live in Roraima's shadow regard the 'tepuy' ('mountain' in their tongue) as the Source of All Waters, home of the Goddess Kuín, grandmother of all Men.
		Roraima's south-western flank runs at a near right angle to Kukenan's wall, forming an amphitheatre of rock into which unsuspecting clouds drifted and dissipated.
	venezuelavoyage.com /walking.htm (2024 words)

	The Seoul Times
		Flat-topped Mount Roraima is a land of bizarre rock formations, crystal pools, canyon rivers and wild orchids (but no pterodactyls or ape men).
		Still, Mount Roraima is not the easiest place to reach, which may be why it has remained a fairly obscure destination.
		Mount Roraima and the surrounding tepuis, the Pemón word for tabletop mountains, loom majestically in the distance.
	theseoultimes.com /ST/db/read.php?idx=830 (2001 words)

	Geodyssey \| Venezuela \| Independent travels \| Active & adventure \| Mount Roraima trek
		Roraima’s remoteness means that few people make the trek (you are unlikely to see more than one or two groups in the six days) but some ill-informed trekking groups are starting to cause damage that they could prevent, upsetting local people, and taking unnecessary risks.
		The Roraima wall is extremely impressive here, rising nearly 3,000 ft directly in front of the camp, the quartz in the rock glittering in the late afternoon sun.
		The plant life is bizarre, over half the species are unique to tepuis or to Roraima alone, including several species of orchid and carnivorous plants.
	www.geodyssey.co.uk /venezuela/indep/roraima.htm (826 words)

	Guyana trekking holiday. Guyana, Mount Roraima. World's best responsible & ecotourism holidays
		Mount Roraima is one of the most acclaimed sights in South America.
		Roraima has made a deep impression on western literature and thought, influencing such men as Charles Darwin and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
		Roraima's mysterious summit was an excellent possibility for an area at evolutionary standstill and the last place on earth where dinosaurs could exist.
	www.responsibletravel.com /Trip/Trip101220.htm (679 words)

	Roraima on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roraima was created in 1943 (as a federal territory) from land formerly belonging to Amazonas state; until 1962 it was named Rio Branco.
		Journey to The Lost World: retracing the steps of the most eagerly anticipated of all the Victorian expeditions, Dominic Hamilton travels to Venezuela to visit one of the world's most unusual, alluring and elusive...
		Roraima recupera libre circulación pero prometen resistencia "hasta el fin"
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Roraima.asp (493 words)

	Mount Roraima -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Spanish Monte Roraima, Portuguese Monte Roraímã, giant flat-topped mountain in the Pakaraima Mountains, at the point where the boundaries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana meet.
		They spring from a table mountain, Kukenaam (8,620 feet [2,627 m]), to the northwest of Mount Roraima (9,094 feet) and are the beginning of the Cuquenán River, a tributary of the Caroni River.
		Its headwaters flow from the slopes of Mount Roraima in the Sierra Pacaraima, where Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9064068 (809 words)

	Mount Roraima’s biodiversity to feature in National Geographic’s `Lost World’ series
		IT HAS been National Geographic’s tradition to take on extraordinary expeditions to extraordinary places, and given the unexplored nature of Mount Roraima’s rock face in Guyana, it was picked as the destination for Geographic’s next Lost World Adventures series.
		Mount Roraima, standing at 9, 094 feet is the sandstone fortress marking the tri-junction point between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
		The latest addition to the team is Bruce Means, an ecologist and professor, who ascended Mount Roraima’s summit via the easy Venezuelan side.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news301/nc303163.htm (544 words)

	Vincenzo Lauriola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The State of Roraima has appealed against the IL’s demarcation, and is exerting all kinds of political pressure on the federal government in an attempt to brake down the continuous area and reduce the surface of the indigenous demarcated land.
		Mount Roraima is undoubtedly one of the most prominent landscape attractions in the whole Guyana Shield region.
		Before anything else, if the objective is to preserve the natural environment in the area of Mount Roraima, a great effort is needed in the understanding of the complex relationship the indigenous peoples of the Serra do Sol maintain with their environment, through their patterns and rules of space and natural resources appropriation and use.
	www.uek.cas.cz /GlobDem/FT-lauriola.htm (7513 words)

	Mount Roraima
		Mount Roraima is the highest point in Guyana, the plateau standing at 2700 m with the peak at 2810 m in Venezuela.
		Roraima is the tripartite border of Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil, and at the moment can only be approached from the Venezuelan side.
		Part of the ancient Guiana Shield, which extends into Brazil and Venezuela and was once part of Gondwanaland before tectonic activity moved apart the continents of Africa and South America, Roraima has developed unique flora which huddles for shelter in pockets on the exposed, windswept plateau.
	www.sdnp.org.gy /gallery/travel_guyana/mount_roraima.htm (399 words)

	Hamilton Mount: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Urged to mount the platform in "the Fields" City Hall Park in support of patriot delegates to the First Continental Congress, Hamilton followed his oral out burst with anonymous pamphlets, in...
		Hamilton is the first novelist in English...they mount much higher than their stronger...therefore like to suggest that Hamiltons evocation of Mary Wollstonecraft...
		YET turn a corner and you get...the sparkling Mediterranean in one direction and the hulking Mount Vesuvius in another, is an extraordinary experience.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/hamilton-mount.jsp?l=H&p=1 (1562 words)

	Entomological Problems, Vol. 30, No. 1 (June, 1999)
		Kodada, J. and Jäch, M.A. Roraima carinata gen. et sp.nov. and Neblinagena doylei sp.nov., two Larainae from Mount Roraima, Venezuela (Coleoptera: Elmidae).
		A new genus and species, Roraima cari-nata, and a new species, Neblinagena doylei, both from Mount Roraima in Venezuela, are described and illustrated.
		The genus Roraima is a very distinctive genus which can be readily distinguished from any of the known laraine genera by the shape and carination of the pronotum and by the unique forking and fusion of the medial field veins of the hind wing.
	www.entomologicalproblems.sav.sk /archiv/1999_1.html (1350 words)

	Guyana: Wildlife and Roraima Adevnture Itinerary/Rates
		Roraima has also made an impression on western literature and thought, after the publication of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ there was great public interest in ‘missing links’ and ‘relic species’ preserved by isolation.
		The Roraima wall is extremely impressive here rising 3,000 feet directly in front of the camp, with the quartz in the rock glittering in the late afternoon sun.
		We visit the northern point of Mount Roraima for stunning views from various points on the edge.
	www.travelvantage.com /tou_guy_roraima.html (3362 words)

	Trekking in the Lost World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So sheer are their walls that fewer than half of Venezuela's nearly 100 tepuys have been thoroughly explored, and because of their isolation from the others, each tepuy has developed its own unique flora and fauna, many species of which are endemic to a particular mesa.
		Roraima (9,220'), one of Venezuela's highest tepuys, is located in a remote corner of the country at the border of Canaima Park.
		Approaching the mountain, we'll enjoy close-up views of its impressive pink and green granite cliffs, and then ascend the steep, natural ramp that was discovered by Everard Thurn in 1884.
	adventurepages.com /GtxPg.asp?rq=Pg&GtxId=313 (486 words)

	Mount Roraima Venezuela - South American Experience tour package (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of South America's greatest treks is reaching the top of Mount Roraima, though you must be fit to attempt it.
		Early morning climb through mountainous rainforest past ever-changing vegetation to the summit of Roraima.
		Visit the tri-border of Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil and take in the flora and fauna much of which is unique to Roraima.
	www.southamericanexperience.co.uk /venezuela/venezuela_roraima.html (190 words)

	Guyana & Venezuela
		It was not until 1884 that Roraima was proven to be accessible when explorers Everard Im Thurm and Harry I. Perkins made it to the top.
		Roraima has also made an impression on western literature and thought, influencing such men as Charles Darwin and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
		We explore Roraima's summit trekking a long circular route to the triple border point, where Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil meet.
	www.wilderness-explorers.com /guyvenez.htm (2867 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Pierangelo's Venezuela Travelogue - Amazonas flowers
		Mount Roraima, which in Pémon means 'the great, ever fruitful, mother of streams' is dramatic and strange in appearance.
		The fascinating landscape and the relative ease of the climb make Mount Roraima an extremely popular tourist destination. Tours to Roraima take a minimum of 5 days, and involve lengthy hikes and camping at the summit.
		Roraima can be reached from San Francisco de Yuruaní (69km north of Santa Elena) and Paraítepui.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/tt/1006 (527 words)

	Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance - Synopsis
		In a clearing, they meet the helicopter pilots who will carry them to their destination: the summit of Mount Roraima.
		The helicopter skims the jagged surface, searching for a landing spot on Roraima's rugged summit, which has eroded into a labyrinth of pillars and canyons.
		We dissolve from the scientists, alone on the vast plateau of Roraima, to a group of sixth-grade explorers on a field trip in a suburban New York park.
	www.amnh.org /museum/imax/lost_worlds/intro_to_the_film_s/synopsis3.html (617 words)

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