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Other natural formations around the world. |
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 | An oasis in Libyan Sahara. |  | 03/21/2006 | 625 | 
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 | Gaberoun is an oasis with a large lake located in the municipality Sabha in the Libyan Sahara.
The old bedouin settlement by the western shore of the lake has been abandoned, and now lays in ruins. A rudimentary tourist camp is located on the northeastern shore, including an open tea patio, sleeping huts, and a souvenir shop (attended by a touareg in full costume) in the winter.<... |  | 03/21/2006 | 622 |
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 | The original Maelstrom is the Moskstraumen, a powerful tidal current between the Lofoten Point (Lofotodden) and the island Vaero/y south west of the main chain of the Lofoten Islands, off the Norwegian coast. It has its name from the small island Mosken in the middle of the sound.
The Maelstrom is one of the strongest in the world.
The shallow strait, some 4-5 kilometres wide, l... |  | 03/14/2006 | 471 |
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 | One of several points along the Military Road where the cliff edge is just getting too close to the road. Combined tidal and weather erosion has already caused this road to be re-routed several times. The road was originally a straight Roman road, the foundations of which can be seen in places in the cliff face. | | 03/04/2006 | 384 |
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 | The Needles is a row of distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, England, close to Alum Bay. A lighthouse has stood at the western end of the formation since 1859. The formation takes its name from a needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife that used to stand in its midst until it collapsed in a storm in 1764. The remaining rocks are all... |  | 02/27/2006 | 452 |
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 | It's the most beautiful river delta I've seen on Google Earth | | 02/22/2006 | 441 |
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 | this river is huge, and looks amazing. at some points the basin is possibly 11 miles wide, with ox-bow lakes from the mouth on the caspian sea, all way into russia. |  | 02/09/2006 | 335 |
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 | Beautifull sand waves in China | | 02/04/2006 | 347 |
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 | Sources of the longest river in Denmark, Gudenaa of 158 km, and Skjaernaa of 94 km. Both sources ar located within 500 meters.
The Gudenaa is marked with a stone, Skjernaa is in a lake. |  | 02/04/2006 | 230 |
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 | This is a scale model of the solar system distances on the streets of New York that I used for a class. An inflatable ball with a circumference of 715 mm (diameter of 228 mm) served as the Sun, and was placed it on the 77th St. corner of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Each planet and planet-like object is placed according to this scale and also has specific notes, da... | | 02/04/2006 | 571 |
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 | Rockall is about 300 miles off the coast of Scotland, measures just 83 feet across, 65 foot high and 100 foot wide, but has proved incredibly controversial over the years. The earliest recorded landing was in 1810 but the ownership of Rockall has been disputed for centuries with the Irish Republic, Denmark and Iceland making claims for it. It was officially annexed by Britain in September 195... | | 01/31/2006 | 760 |
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 | Ilulissat (Jakobshavn) Icefjord in West Greenland. The greatest icefjord in the world. The iceberg that sunk Titanic propably came from here. North of the fjorg is the city Ilulissat. | | 01/31/2006 | 2,800 |
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 | The Bimini Road is an underwater stone structure near the Bimini Island.
Discovered during the 1960s, many supporters of the "Atlantis theory" proposed that these large, rectangular stones were traces of the legendary lost civilization. | | 01/29/2006 | 1,708 |
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 | In Rio de Janeiro are an island, but It's looks like Goofy's Head---:-D | | 01/20/2006 | 193 |
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 | The deepest point of the Mariana Trench is called The Challenger Deep, so named after the British exploration vessel HMS Challenger II, and it is located 210 miles south-west of Guam. A depth of -10,911 meters was reached in 1960 by the Trieste, a manned submersible owned by the U.S. Navy.
The descent took almost five hours and the two men spent barely twenty minutes on the ocean floo... | | 01/18/2006 | 1,057 |
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 | High resolution portion of the desert in Namibia | | 01/17/2006 | 707 |
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 | Truely amazing landscape | | 01/17/2006 | 495 |
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 | In the middle of the desert in Algeria. A hi-res red square that appears to just be a load of sand dunes but - being red - looks like a Martian landscape. | | 01/16/2006 | 546 |
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 | Fast shutter speed and a little patience...this road is a great escape from the city, but it is one lane and a little rough in spots...if you dont love your car too too much you can make it though | | 01/15/2006 | 215 |
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 | the forest make this real donut | | 01/14/2006 | 260 |
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 | This mount, 1575m above the sea level is a famous place in Ardeche, France where are the 3 sources (1375m above sea level) of the LOIRE river 1012km, the longest river of France. | | 01/14/2006 | 239 |
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 | Dome A or Dome Argus is an Antarctic plateau located 1200 kilometres inland. It is thought to be one of the coldest naturally occurring places on Earth, with temperatures believed to reach -90 °C. It is the highest ice feature in Antarctica, comprising a dome or eminence of just over 4,000 m elevation, located near the centre of East Antarctica and approximately midway between the head of Lambe... | | 01/13/2006 | 667 |
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 | The cirque of the Seven Rila Lakes is the largest in all of Rila Mountain. It is centered East of Haidyta Peak (also known as Hermit Peak) and South of the steap rock slopes of Razdela Ridge and Otovishka Peak, found to the West of the peak directly above Kidney lake. The cirque opens to the North and feeds the German River, which is a main source of the Stryma River. The lakes of the cirque ar... | | 01/05/2006 | 334 |
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 | a little-known thrust fault running through Pittsburgh, California, on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area | | 01/05/2006 | 266 |
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 | It's a military area prohibited for the public. One of the greatest areas on Rio de Janeiro. It's near from Barra da Tijuca and Recreio. | | 12/21/2005 | 255 |
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