What's New
on the NABS website
March 6 - 35 arches added to the GIS area Arizona Map, all in Coconino County and all with thumbnail photos.
February 24 - Arches in Iran and Turkey.
January 15 - The web page for the Tilenfaza Area of Ahaggar National Park has been completed, with 34 arches.
January 10 - Onyx Bridge, Arizona, with pre- and post-collapse photos.
January 9 - 30 arches added to the GIS Arizona Map, all with thumbnail images and all in Apache County in the NE corner of the state.
January 1 - The GIS China section has been recently expanded. The China Map now includes 41 natural arches, 40 with thumbnail photos.
December 11 - Kamara Tou Koraka, Cyprus.
November 29 - A report that Island Arch in Australia has collapsed.
November 6 - Free book Arches of the Sand Flats Area (near Moab, Utah) by Virginia Allen on our Download page. 39 arches, 56 pages, 5.4 MB PDF file.
October 16 - New index page with 6 arches for the Tin-Missaou Area of Ahaggar National Park, Algeria.
October 14 - Arches added in Nebraska and Poland.
September 14 - New Index Page for Youf-Ahakit Area of Ahaggar National Park, Algeria.
September 12 - The Colorado section of the GIS Catalog has been expanded to 88 arches and Google Earth KML files are being added to the GIS Catalog.
August 29 - "Triple Bridge" in Colorado is now a quadruple bridge — documentation of the recent formation of a natural arch.
July 31 - Gaada Stack, Scotland. Seen in the movie The Edge of the World.
July 25 - Culvert Arch, Colorado.
July 1 - Rhoda's Arch and Window Rock, Colorado
June 26 - Five arches added to Tin-Akacheker Area in Ahaggar National Park.
June 14 - Heaven's Gate Mountain (Tianmen Shan), China. This arch has also been added to our Movie Page, from the film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002).
June 14 - 3D arch photos added for Moon Hill, China, and Swinnerton Arch, Arizona.
June 7 - In Spain: an unusual view through three natural arches at Playa das Catedrais, and a 100-foot natural bridge in the town of Puentedei.
May 31 - 26 arches in Malta mapped
May 20 - The most extensive changes ever have been made to our listing of the world's giant arches. The information with the list has also been totally revised. What used to be called the Big 10 section is now the Big 13 section. One arch has been removed from the list (Wrather Arch) and four arches have been added to the list, all from China, incuding one that may have the world's greatest span (greater than Landscape Arch).
May 17 - The White Hole, Thailand.
May 14 - Sohoton Natural Bridge, Philippines.
May 11 - Added three more movies to the Natural Arches at the Movies Gallery.
May 7 - The Faustini arch catalog manuscript (1918, handwritten in Italian) is now available for download. 496-page PDF file with 220 illustrations. More info.
May 5 - China: Gaotun Natural Bridge (230-foot span).
May 2 - China: Bridge Across the Sky and Bridge of the Immortals. Also, arches of Sehlabathebe National Park, Lesotho.
May 1 - China: Jiangzhou Arch (210-foot span) and Dragon Palace Cave.
April 28 - New web section on Ahaggar National Park in Algeria. A dozen arches now and many more to come. Check out the panoramic images.
April 22 - revised the GIS Illinois arch list and created a new arch map for Illinois.
April 22 - Doubled the number of movies listed in the Natural Arches at the Movies Gallery.
April 21 - An unnamed cave natural arch in Crawford County, Indiana.
April 19 - New Gallery page Natural Arches at the Movies lists cameo appearances of arches in theatrical movies.
April 18 - China - Fairy Bridge (possibly the world's longest span?) - Nanxu Arch - China Arch Map (work still in progress).
April 11 - In Tassili section, added 30 more arches (ALG-540 through ALG-569) in Tin Kani Area.
April 5 - China - Three Natural Bridges National Geopark, with video.
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