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Various locations around the world that showcase the beauty of our planet. |
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 | Check out this glacier in the process of breaking apart. |  | 08/26/2008 | 212 | 
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 | The Cohoes Falls is a waterfall on the Mohawk River in Cohoes, New York. Discovered by the indigenous Mohawk tribe, the falls' original name was Ga-ha-oose, which is believed to mean "The Place of the Falling Canoe." Cohoes historian Arthur Masten also wrote in his 1880 history that the phrase might mean "Potholes in the River," referring to the potholes which appear in the ... |  | 07/29/2008 | 51 |
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 | This is the tallest waterfall in Germany. It's located in the very southeast corner of Germany, about 20 air miles south of Salzburg, Austria. The falls consist of three tiers, a large horsetail, a smaller plunge, and a series of cascades before the stream flows into Lake Königssee.
It falls 469 meters (1540 feet) in 3 drops.
Photo taken in september with low water. |  | 03/25/2008 | 252 |
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 | Beneath the ruins of Hammershus on Bornholm ther is a cliff formation called the lion heads. They are a popular object for photographers.
Why they are called so, nobody knows. Other say they look more like camels. | | 03/17/2008 | 117 |
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 | This valley is one of the most visited places on the island Bornholm.
When you walk the path here along the cliffs all you say come back as an echo. | | 03/17/2008 | 76 |
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 | Visited by more than 1.2 million people per year and featuring breathtaking views from 500 foot cliffs, swimming areas with two large, sandy beaches, hundreds of campsites, mountain biking, cross country skiing and hiking trails, and more, Devil's Lake State Park is one of Wisconsin's most popular natural vacation choices. | | 02/15/2008 | 148 |
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 | Lonely clouds surrounding a lake in in Pavlovci village. |  | 01/26/2008 | 73 |
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 | Mountains and passes in J & K. Includes Airports. | | 12/01/2007 | 311 |
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 | A giant snowball thats rolled down the hill |  | 11/27/2007 | 809 |
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 | The Lange Anna ("Long Anna" or "Tall Anna") which is a free standing rock column (or stack), 47 metres high and weighing about 25,000 tonnes. | | 10/24/2007 | 433 |
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 | Geysers are a rare natural phenomena found only in a few places, such as New Zealand, Iceland, the United States (Yellowstone National Park), and on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. On June 3, 2007, one of these rare geyser fields was severely damaged when a landslide rolled through Russia’s Valley of the Geysers. The landslide—a mix of mud, melting snow, trees, and boulders—tore a sca... | | 08/28/2007 | 296 |
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 | Like strokes from an artist’s brush, the sky over Lake Superior and Lake Michigan was painted with long rows of white clouds on February 5, 2007. Called cloud streets, these clouds occur when frigid, dry air blows across the lake, where it picks up water vapor from the warmer lake. The water vapor freezes into ice crystals, and clouds form. The clouds take the shape of the wind as it gusts over... | | 08/28/2007 | 220 |
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 | The intense blue and green colors of the ocean water in this photo-like image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on July 15, 2007, are made by millions of surface-dwelling ocean plants. Called phytoplankton, the plants are the base of the marine food chain. The brilliant color shown here may only be a part of the full bloom. Stocked w... | | 08/28/2007 | 190 |
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 | The largest active sand dune system in Europe. | | 01/27/2007 | 1,043 |
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 | This Image is located in the mines of Fderik in Mauritania Africa, it is home to one of the largest iron mines in the world . It also has the longest non-stop train ride in the world...sorry, no passengers are allowed. Also observe about 100 miles southeast of the mines the Sahara Bulls Eye. Some people believe this is the Image of Apollyon in the bottomless pit, For Wikipedia reference see htt... |  | 01/15/2007 | 1,756 |
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 | Weir Hill is a 12,000-year-old glacial deposit. It was for millenia home to Native Americans who trapped fish in the river by constructing fish weirs here. | | 10/20/2006 | 582 |
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 | Henry David Thoreau Accidentally set fire to the woods here. | | 10/20/2006 | 679 |
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 | These icebergs, although actually 2D and flat, look 3D because of the shadowing and the way the satellite pictures came out. Around the Sandwich Islands. | | 10/19/2006 | 449 |
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 | Raabjerg Mile is also one of the biggest dunes in Europe.
It contains about 3.5 mio m3 sand and is 35 to 40 meters high. It moves to the northeast 0-30 meters a year when it's windy weather up to stormy weather.
You can actually see the track the dune has taken over the years. | | 10/04/2006 | 560 |
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 | An extremely curvy river in southern Maine. | | 09/18/2006 | 1,148 |
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 | according to guiness world records this is the worlds highest sea cliff (1,010m) | | 08/03/2006 | 1,708 |
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 | The Natural Bridge in Aruba.
It's Collapsed a few years ago but its still standing on Google earth |  | 07/21/2006 | 443 |
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 | Solimões and Negro rivres meet together to form the AMazon River in Manaus, in Brazil, whith their diferent colour textures. / Encontro da Águas do Rio Solimões com o Rio Negro, formando o Rio Amazonas, em Manaus, AM - Brasil. | | 07/18/2006 | 1,006 |
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 | This river in Japan is soooo bendy! Appears to do loop the loops. | | 06/26/2006 | 771 |
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 | These are the mightiest rapids of the Torne river in sweden. They look like quite a challenge! | | 06/26/2006 | 554 |
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