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 | Have a look around this mystic place called Snow Lake in northern Pakistan. It is the center of the famed Biafo-Hispar-Trek and is considered one of the most stunning places on earth (along with Concordia, which is close by). It is a huge "lake" of snow out of which rise dozens of mountains. |  | 08/17/2005 | 486 | 
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 | Famous chalk cliffs on England's east coast. Unfortunately, low-res image. |  | 08/16/2005 | 295 |
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 | The Dune du Pilat is Europe's biggest sand dune. It is located just south of the City Arcachon in Southwest France. | | 08/15/2005 | 603 |
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 | Yellow River Delta |  | 08/15/2005 | 517 |
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 | Perito Moreno (or Moreno Glacier) is located in the icefields of southern Patagonia and is the centerpiece of the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. The glacier is also noteworthy as a tourist attraction, due to periodic formation of an ice dam between the main portion of Lago (Lake) Argentino to the northeast and a southern extension of the lake (Brazo Rico). [Source: NASA Earth Observatory] | | 08/15/2005 | 742 |
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 | Really cool clouds in the Brooks Range in Alaska. |  | 08/14/2005 | 150 |
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 | I came across this round black thing in Northeastern Chile that looks out of place. The area is snowy and mountainous, but this thing is round and black with a smaller round shape in the middle, not unlike a nipple. |  | 08/14/2005 | 587 |
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 | Frozen lakes south of Oslo in Norway. Picture was taken in April. There also remains some snow at the northside of the forestedges. | | 08/13/2005 | 333 |
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 | The Strait of Magellan is a navigable route immediately south of mainland South America. The strait is arguably the most important natural passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, but it is considered a difficult route to navigate because of the inhospitable climate and the narrowness of the passage. Ferdinand Magellan be... | | 08/12/2005 | 404 |
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 | The largest canyon in Africa, and second largest in the world after the Grand Canyon in the U.S. | | 08/12/2005 | 992 |
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 | The russian Volga River fans into a delta on the northwest shore of the Caspian Sea. | | 08/12/2005 | 241 |
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 | The Orinoco river flows through Venezuela and forms at its mouth a wide delta with about 41,000 kmē of swampy area before it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. |  | 08/12/2005 | 315 |
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 | The Lena river is emptying in the Arctic Ocean in Siberia by a delta about 10,800 mē in area. | | 08/12/2005 | 250 |
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 | The Ural River in Kazakhstan flows into the Caspian Sea. | | 08/12/2005 | 255 |
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 | The river Mekong flows towards the South China Sea. The delta in southern Vietnam encloses an area of about 39,000 kmē. | | 08/12/2005 | 518 |
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 | The River Indus Dort builds a delta with about 7.800 kmē area and empties in Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. |  | 08/12/2005 | 307 |
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 | The delta of the Niger River in Nigeria empties in the Gulf of Guinea. The area is about 24,000 kmē. | | 08/12/2005 | 560 |
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 | The Ganges delta is a river delta in the south Asia region of Bengal (Bangladesh and West Bengal in India). It arises from the confluence of the rivers Ganges (Padma), Brahmaputra (Jamuna) and Meghna. It covers more than 105.000 kmē and empties into the Bay of Bengal. | | 08/12/2005 | 347 |
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 | The Po River in northern Italy creates a wide delta with hundreds of small channels and five main ones. It drains into the Adriatic Sea. | | 08/12/2005 | 356 |
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 | The river Danube is emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta (4000 kmē) in Romania. | | 08/12/2005 | 555 |
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 | Where the Ebro River in Spain meets the Mediterranean Sea is the swampy Ebro River Delta with an area of 400 kmē. | | 08/12/2005 | 299 |
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 | Not realy a delta because the ocean rapidly carries away the vast volume of silt carried by the Amazon, making it impossible for a delta to grow. | | 08/12/2005 | 723 |
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 | The Nile Delta is the delta formed in Northern Egypt where the River Nile spreads out (about 24.000 kmē) and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. | | 08/12/2005 | 946 |
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 | I think, this is a great view.
You can see the clouds very well. | | 08/12/2005 | 266 |
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 | Huge river delta (36.000 kmē) which leads into the Gulf of Mexico formed by the river Mississippi. | | 08/12/2005 | 421 |
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