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Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by time2lose@lemmy.world to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 52 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Every few years I am reminded that it exists, and become briefly obsessed. I want to write an entire fictional setting based on Roraima's geological and ecological oddity

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago

I'd read it.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Was this the place where that young adult apocalypse book was based on? I think it was called the giver or something.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Never heard of it, but I can't find anything that connects it to Roraima.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

https://thegiver.fandom.com/wiki/Community https://thegiver.fandom.com/wiki/Community?file=Community.jpg

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That image is from the movie. I don't recall there ever being much mention of the location or geography in the book.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

True, just made me think of it.