New7Wonders Foundation Turns Sights on Natural Monuments

World | July 8, 2007, Sunday // 00:00

Swiss foundation New7Wonders, who organised the six-year campaign to pick a new set of world wonders to replace the ones destroyed in the Ancient era, has now turned its sights on the natural world.

Fresh after Saturday's gala event in which the new seven wonders of the world were unveiled, the foundation has now announced it was taking nominations for a similar list of natural wonders.

"Nominations must be for a clearly defined natural site or natural monument that was not created or significantly altered by humans," the campaign's website reads.

Furthermore, the nominees must be a natural site, monument or landscape, thus making physical or natural phenomena like the northern lights, the Gulf Stream or shooting stars ineligible.

Nominations will be accepted until August 8, 2008, after which a panel of experts will shortlist 21 locations for voters to choose from.

The winners of the "seven new wonders of the world" picked 100 million people in a vote that went on for several years are the Great Wall of China, Peru's lost city of Machu Picchu, the Chichen Itza ruins of the Maya in Mexico, India's Taj Mahal, the Colosseum in Rome, the Jordanian rock city of Petra and the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.

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