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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 | 512 | 
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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 | 645 |
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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 | 303 |
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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 | 1,136 |
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 | Famous place in Britannia near a bay called "bay of the trespassed" |  | 01/24/2006 | 221 |
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 | In Rio de Janeiro are an island, but It's looks like Goofy's Head---:-D |  | 01/20/2006 | 160 |
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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 | 560 |
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 | High resolution portion of the desert in Namibia | | 01/17/2006 | 609 |
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 | Truely amazing landscape | | 01/17/2006 | 419 |
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 | Very stange shap in the water |  | 01/17/2006 | 649 |
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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 | 466 |
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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 | 158 |
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 | the forest make this real donut | | 01/14/2006 | 225 |
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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 | 167 |
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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 | 543 |
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 | A long wait for this photo, but it seems to be all worth it now | | 01/06/2006 | 707 |
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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 | 222 |
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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 | 197 |
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 | This is one of the large salt lakes that provides salt to the world. It is on the coast of Torrevieja, Spain. When the sun is at it's highest it turns pink. | | 01/03/2006 | 231 |
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 | it looks like a tree (cameroon) |  | 12/22/2005 | 149 |
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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 | 226 |
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 | The McMurdo Dry Valleys are located on the western coast of McMurdo Sound (77°00'S 162°52'E) and form the largest relatively ice-free area (approximately 4800 square kilometers) on the Antarctic continent. These ice-free areas of Antarctica display a sharp contrast to most other ecosystems in the world, which exist under far more moderate environmental conditions. The perennially ice-covered la... |  | 12/19/2005 | 437 |
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 | Second desert of the world (after the Sahara), it's the biggest desert of China : 337 000 km² of sand | | 12/17/2005 | 362 |
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 | island, which is figurated like a bird in the black sea near odesa | | 12/14/2005 | 364 |
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 | this farmland looks like an gemstone, located in brazil | | 12/13/2005 | 251 |
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