The postcard-perfect archipelago, comprising more than 610 islands, is popular among divers, ... the iconic karst island formation depicted on Indonesia’s 100,000-rupiah banknote. ...

The Banggai archipelago is a remote landscape of around 97% limestone karst east of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. Extractive concessions on 39 locations on Peleng island, the largest island in ...

Karst systems like the Banggai Islands are landscapes of soluble bedrock riddled with caves and underground rivers formed by erosion from acidic water over millions of years.

The karst area of Maros Pangkep generally has a morphology of the hills that extends relatively north - south, which gradually wears to the northwest. These karst hills are formed by carbonate rock ...

What it's like to sail Thailand's wild Andaman Coast onboard a catamaran. The limestone karst islands and idyllic bays off Thailand’s southwest coast are home to coral gardens, colourful schools ...

The most striking visual aspect of Aran islands and Inisheer is the number of stone walls that separate land into small fields. Over 1,000 miles of ancient walls interlace across three islands ...

Grismer likens the karst formations to islands in an archipelago. Each formation, he says, serves as an evolutionary microcosm, producing species entirely distinct from neighboring karsts.

These islands offer white sand beaches and rocky outcroppings, ... formed by the crater of an ancient volcano near San Miguel island, ... Karst towers rise abovej the ade-green waters in Lan Ha Bay.

From karst limestone cliffs to sun-kissed islands, Krabi and Koh Phi Phi in south-east Thailand continue to be among the best beach vacation destinations in the world ...

Karst landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years. June 8, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

Western science has long debated when the towering pillars of the Pinnacles came to be. A new study suggests most of the spires formed when a particularly wet period dissolved the surrounding rock.