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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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[–] 61 points 2 months ago (8 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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Pixar beat you to it

    Though I guess the waterfall is based on Angel Falls in Venezuela

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I was going to go more conceptual with it, the idea of a physically inaccessible place as an otherworld, probably have it be a place supernatural creatures visit and do like an Enemy Mine thing

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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