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The Strangest Mountain in the World, which Inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Novel “The Lost World”

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With a unique ecosystem found only above the clouds, the mystic flat-topped Mount Roraima on the tripoint of Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil perplexed 19th-century explorers and inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel ‘The Lost World.’

Mount Roraima is located on the Guiana Shield in Venezuela’s 30,000-square-kilometer Canaima National Park. This strange-looking geological formation, also known as a tepui, is one of the world’s oldest plateaus, dating back around two billion years.

The mountain’s 31 km2 plateau summit area is surrounded by 400-meter-high cliffs on all sides (1,300 ft). Rainfall at high altitude collects in small lakes and cascades off massive cliffs in spectacular waterfalls.

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Mount Roraima on a clear day, Canaima National Park, Venezuela (Inspiration for the movie “Up”). Source: Imgur
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Mount Roraima, also known as ‘The Floating Island,’ is so unique that scientists are still trying to understand its ecosystem.

The mystery is that we know many creatures live on the tops of these unusual geological formations, but we have no idea how they got there.

Did they evolve apart from other ecosystems – an idea known as the ‘lost world hypothesis,’ after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel The Lost World, which is set in Roraima. Or did they find a way to get there?

Nobody knows for sure, but scientists are getting closer. Today, it is estimated that 35% of Mount Roraima’s species are endemic, having evolved independently on Roraima over millions of years.

A natural Jakuzzi. Image credit: The Orange Mango
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Utricularia campbelliana from Mount Roraima. Image credit: Alexey Yakovlev
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Vegetation on Mount Roraima. Image credit: Paolo Costa Baldi
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Tripoint marker on Mount Roraima, taken from the Venezuelan side. Image credit: Yosemite
The steep rock wall of Roraima tepui in the Guiana highlands. Image credit: Jeff Johnson
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El Fosso in Mt. Roraima by Paulo Fassina
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Roraima Tepui by daniderio

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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