Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Australia from space

Original - Australia, as seen from space. A cropped version of NASA's Blue Marble. Included in this image at top right are the Torres Strait Islands, below the island of New Guinea. A number of other outlying islands and territories of Australia are outside this image.

Reason: This image illustrates the articles in a way that is attractive and highly encyclopedic. Compares equally in quality to other such Featured Pictures, of which Sahara satellite is the most comparable.
Articles this image appears in: Australia, Geography of Australia
Creator: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Support as nominator --Mostlyharmless (talk) 07:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yep, that's Australia. Staxringold _talk^contribs 15:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Beautiful and thoroughly encyclopedic. Durova³²⁴ 16:48, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ronseal... Gazhiley (talk) 22:14, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Norfolk island is missing... Noodle snacks (talk) 11:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmmmm. A picture that included all the outlying territories (recognised and defacto) would cover much of the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, as well as a very large slice of Antarctica. We could try that! Mostlyharmless (talk) 04:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Though I'm not convinced of its EV in the article about Australia...^sorry. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:12, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support even though it's merely a sloppy rendering of a classic Usenet signature: [1] Spikebrennan (talk) 16:19, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Australia satellite plane.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:15, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]