Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2008
Pictures on SP in 2008
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The Vinland map, a 15th century world map purportedly based on a 13th century original. If authentic, it is the first known depiction of the North American coastline. Image credit: creator unknown |
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Arctic Circle, Santa Claus' Village in Rovaniemi, Finland. Image credit: Birit Schenk |
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Flooding in Amphoe Sena, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. Image credit: Alabamaboy |
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Water cycles between ocean, atmosphere, and glaciers. Image credit: NASA |
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Surface waves of water: expansion of a disturbance. Image credit: Roger McLassus |
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Oceania's regions. Image credit: ASDFGH |
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The mouth of Cattaraugus Creek on Lake Erie near Sunset Bay, New York, United States. The Cattaraugus Indian Reservation occupies the land on the north side (upper in this photograph) of the creek. View is to the north. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the breakwaters and dredges the channel as necessary. Image credit: Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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Rainbows can often be seen in the spray and mist coming from larger waterfalls, as here at Takakkaw Falls, Canada. Image credit: Michael Rogers |
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Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania circa 1959, a new town constructed in a previously undeveloped area. Image credit: National Archives and Records Administration |
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Tornado climatology: Intense tornado activity in the United States. The darker-colored areas denote the area commonly referred to as Tornado Alley. Image credit: Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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San Francisco harbor, 1850 or 1851, with Alcatraz Island in the background. Image credit: unknown |
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Sunset in Bangkok, showing the skytrain and modern skyline, taken from the corner of Thanon Silom. Image credit: Diliff |
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Image credit: National Park Service |
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Image credit: Anouchka Unel |
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Image credit: Shawn Wilson |
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A simulated-color satellite image of Detroit, with Windsor across the Detroit River, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite. Image credit: NASA |
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Point No Point Light at Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State, United States Image credit: Moxfyre |
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Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong, China. Image credit: 39kschan |
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Image credit: NASA |
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Approximate extent of the Mackenzie River watershed. It is the longest river in Canada. Image credit: Geo Swan |
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Howard's Pass in Nahanni National Park Reserve in Yukon, Canada. Image credit: Jo Ohara |
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Nevado San Francisco, or Cerro San Francisco, is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, located just southeast of San Francisco Pass. It is considered extinct. Image credit: Éric Depagne |
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The cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), at the age of about 50. He was the author of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Image credit: Public Domain |
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Topographic map of the island of Hawaii. Image credit: Sémhur |
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Dead trees in the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. Image credit: Thegreenj |
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Beach of Anse Source d'Argent on the island of La Digue, Seychelles. Image credit: Tobias Alt |
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The pier of the seaside resort Prerow in Nordvorpommern, Germany. On the foreground, a Scott's pine (Pinus sylvestris) Image credit: Simon Koopmann |
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Mulberry Street, New York City, New York, United States c. 1900. Image credit: User:Debivort |
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Moving sand dunes in part of the Sahara, south western Libya. Image credit: (Luca Galuzzi) * http://www.galuzzi.it |
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Terraced rice fields in Yunnan Province, China. Image credit: Jialiang Gao |
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Description of relations between axial tilt (or obliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic. Image credit: user:Dna-webmaster |
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Beijing CBD (Commercial Business District) area. Image credit: 39degN |
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Two computer models showing the amount of methane found at the Earth's surface and in the stratosphere. Image credit: GMAO Chemical Forecasts and GEOS–CHEM NRT Simulations for ICARTT (top) and Randy Kawa, NASA GSFC Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch (lower) |
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Lokrum isle in the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia. Image credit: László Szalai (Beyond silence) |
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Alluvial fans at Andes Mountain, Los Penitentes, Mendoza, Argentina. Image credit: Eurico Zimbres |
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Arctic shrinkage of ice in the Arctic Sea in February 2008. Image credit: NASA |
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Profile through the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Morphological main features in the deep sea are shown like the mid-ocean ridge (West Scotia Ridge), separating the Antarctic Plate from the South American Plate. The South Shetland Islands belong to an island belt, resulting from the subduction of the Pacific Plate below the Antarctic plate. In the back arc basin, i.e. the Bransfield Strait, submarine volcanoes have been found. The upper graph shows salinity and temperature in surface water measured along a cruise track. The Polar front is an oceanographic feature which is characterized by a steep change in temperature by some degree. Image credit: Hannes Grobe |
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Topographic map of the Red Sea, UTM projection (WGS84 datum). Image credit: Eric Gaba |
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Lake Assal, Djibouti. Lake Assal is the most saline body of water on Earth, with 34.8% percent salt concentration. Image credit: Fishercd |
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A thunderstorm with heavy precipitation in the lower lower Adelaide River catchment in Northern Territory, Australia. Image credit: Bidgee |
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Dusk. Image credit: mailer diablo |
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Rockall, a small, isolated rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. Image credit: Anilocra |
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Two stacks on Flowerpot Island in Georgian Bay, a part of the Fathom Five National Marine Park of Ontario, Canada. Image credit: Thesofa |
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Pebbles on a shingle beach in Bossington Shingle Beach, Somerset, England. Image credit: Sean the Spook |
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Waymarked boardwalk trail through the sand dunes of Ynyslas in Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom. Image credit: Badgernet |
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Landsat image of Ōsumi Peninsula, Kagoshima, Japan. Image credit: NASA |
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Pocket beach at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Image credit: Krun |
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Diagram of a fringing coral reef. Image credit: USGS |
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Left to right: Vorder Grauspitz (2599 m), the highest mountain in Liechtenstein and Hinter Grauspitz (also: Schwarzhorn) (2574 m) from east. Image credit: Svickova |