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The Real Lost World: Mount Roraima

  • October 19, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Said to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World, South America’s Mount Roraima is a flat-topped mountain bounded by vertical cliffs nearly a quarter-mile high. Many unique species live on it, and waterfalls flow down the sides, fed by rain that falls almost every day.

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