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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 5 points 31 minutes 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

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 minutes ago

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

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

I'd read it.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

This is the kind of location I look for when building a house in Minecraft.