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 | The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. It is a complex ecosystem comprising one of the three largest single tract of mangrove forests of the world. The name Sundarban can be literally translated as "beautiful jungle.” The name may have been derived from the Sundari trees that are found in Sundarbans in large numbers. The forest lies in ... |  | 06/12/2011 | 392 | 
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 | Rock Garden is a Sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India, also known as Nek Chand's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Nek Chand‘s family moved to Chandigarh in 1947 during the Partition of India. At the time, the city was being redesigned as a modern utopia by the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. It was to... | | 05/28/2011 | 141 |
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 | The Government Botanical Gardens, Udagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu state, India The Botanical Gardens were laid out in 1847.The Gardens, divided into several sections, cover an area of around 22 hectares, and lie on the lower slopes of the Doddabetta peak. The garden has a terraced layout. It is maintained by the Tamil Nadu Horticulture Department. It ascends the slopes of the hill at an elevat... | | 05/28/2011 | 416 |
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 | George Ward Park is located at Birmingham, Alabama, USA. It is a 100-acre Birmingham city park located in the Glen Iris neighborhood of the Southside community. The property was purchased and dedicated as a park during the administration of Birmingham City Commission president George Ward. It formally opened to the public as Green Springs Park in 1925 and was renamed in Ward's honor in 1952. Cu... | | 05/27/2011 | 262 |
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 | This is a little visitors attraction located in Itami city of Hyogo Prefecture, near Kobe Harbor. A little island made in the shape of mainland Japan. | | 04/27/2011 | 226 |
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 | The Trans-Catalina Trail stretches 37.2 miles across California's Santa Catalina Island. The trail connects, Avalon, the island's only city with the village of Two Harbors on the island's isthmus. The trail takes a course across Catalina's rugged interior. Hikers experience a unique climate and can see animals that are rare, if not extinct, in other places. This KML traces the TCT's path, place... | | 08/26/2010 | 166 |
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 | This is a map of all the Florida Wildlife Management Areas. It has all the borders and property lines .
The file is 99% accurate. I do not guarantee it and that is one reason it is free. |  | 01/25/2010 | 1,787 |
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 | Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. | | 12/17/2009 | 160 |
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 | (Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra or simply Jardim Botânico) is a botanic garden in Coimbra, Portugal.
It was founded in 1772-1774 and it was integrated in the Natural History Museum established by the Marquis of Pombal.
The place for the Hortus Botanicus was chosen by the vice-chancellor of the University of Coimbra (Francisco de Lemos) and it was part of the farm of S... | | 09/27/2009 | 461 |
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 | at Halmstad Airport. | | 04/17/2009 | 309 |
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 | Toyoniko--a heart-shaped lake in Hokaido,Japan. |  | 03/23/2009 | 753 |
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 | crater of diamonds state park, arkansas, you find um, you keep um | | 02/24/2009 | 326 |
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 | It's a nice feature to have a park with an island shaped like a rabbit. I think it was already there some time before Google Earth was first launched, but maybe they already knew... | | 02/18/2009 | 1,086 |
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 | .. Or, at least, is seems to be.
More seriously, it seems to be a "field", surrounded by a palisade and trees to keep and protect animal(s). There is a watering place at the left.
Various countries of the Arabic peninsula get wildlife protection programs. | | 01/04/2009 | 372 |
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 | The castle of Vaux-le-vicomte, situated to the south-west of Paris is a private propriety (Its possible to visit it, organize a dinner,etc...) and have a walk in its gardens.
for more information:
http://www.vaux-le-vicomte.com/
and more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte | | 01/02/2009 | 422 |
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 | In the eastern land of Paris, just behind the new opera Bastille of the city, was the place where ended an elevated railroad unused since 1969. At the beginning of the 90s, the authorities of the city decided to transform this 4,5kms-long place in a "chain" of gardens of various styles: English, Mediterranean, Japanese, French, etc...Its name is "Promenade plantée"
If... | | 12/24/2008 | 234 |
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 | I firstely thought that it was the placemark of a frontier.
Somebody offer us a fotografic flight(East_West) in kenia from the city of Garissa (we can see an airport in the city) through the mount Kenia. About220Kms
Then, there´s another not so clear flight in direction to the North .
All the photos are in high-resolution, but Í didn´t take time searching for something inte... |  | 12/20/2008 | 302 |
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 | Very few persons believed in the idea at the begining of the sixties of the 20th century. the KKL decided to plant a four millions tree forest at the "door" of the Neguev desert. and...It Works! Actually, the Yatir forest(Translation: the father of the forests) is growing and expanding naturaly and is part of the FluxNet investigation. By the vay, the north frontier of the forest is a... | | 12/18/2008 | 335 |
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 | a funny shape lake called Lake Osoresan | | 12/15/2008 | 388 |
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 | Two lakes in Nevada that are a strange greenish kind of color. |  | 07/29/2008 | 356 |
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 | Natural distribution of the monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) in Chile and Argentina. | | 06/24/2008 | 419 |
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 | sites for birding , hiking and photography | | 05/22/2008 | 345 |
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 | The Kruger National Park is one of the world's iconic wildlife reserves. It is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a "peace park" which sits astride the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The Kruger Park layers include:
- national park and reserve borders, including historical borders so you can see how the park has grown
- safari lodges, res... |  | 05/14/2008 | 951 |
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 | Lake Palic in Serbia near Serbia/Hungary border. | | 04/14/2008 | 804 |
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 | A brightly coloured lake (probably due to the factory) near Yellowknife, Canada | | 04/07/2008 | 579 |
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