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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)
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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 6 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 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 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 2 points 3 hours ago

True, just made me think of it.