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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 | 553 | 
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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 | 457 |
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 | island, which is figurated like a bird in the black sea near odesa |  | 12/14/2005 | 441 |
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 | this farmland looks like an gemstone, located in brazil | | 12/13/2005 | 291 |
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 | Inga Falls on the Congo River | | 12/12/2005 | 495 |
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 | RDC - Congo river near Kinshasa | | 12/12/2005 | 425 |
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 | A historical site, in whitch the pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, starting the first colonies. Users from the US would want to download it because it is the "Birthplace" of the contry. | | 12/10/2005 | 357 |
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 | The Pantanal, in between Brazil and Bolivia. |  | 12/10/2005 | 366 |
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 | The three Storegga Slides count among the largest recorded landslides. They occurred under water on the edge of Norway's continental shelf (Storegga is Norwegian for "the Great Edge") in the Norwegian Sea, where an area the size of Iceland slid, causing a megatsunami in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The first slide occurred approximately 30,000-35,000 years before present. The sec... | | 12/05/2005 | 371 |
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 | Ponta do Seixas, the Americas' Eastern Extreme Point. O Extremo Oriental das Américas. João Pessoa, PB - Brasil. |  | 11/28/2005 | 265 |
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 | Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades (the Seven Cities National Park), in the Brazilian state of Piauí, is famous by its seven cities spulpted by nature. Between Piracuruca and Piripiri, Piaui, Brazil. | | 11/27/2005 | 183 |
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 | Angel Falls is the Longest free fall of water in the world.
At 979 meters high, it is 15 times higher than Niagara.
Angel Falls is located in the Guayana highlands, Venezuela.
The falls are named after Jimmy Angel, a bush pilot who first saw the falls in 1933 while searching for a gold ore bed.
The tallest non permanent waterfall in the world is the Catira which is f... | | 11/27/2005 | 2,558 |
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 | Olduvai Gorge more precisely Oldupai Gorge (the correct Maasai name) in Tanzania is the site where early transitional human fossils (Homo habilis) were first discovered in 1960 by Louis and Mary Leakey in ancient lake sediment
The site contains evidence of at least three species of hominids such as Homo rudolfensis. and Australopithecus boisei. The few rudolfensis fossils date to a... | | 11/27/2005 | 397 |
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 | Charles Darwin National Park
protects part of the Port Darwin wetland, one of Australia's most significant wetlands.
Thirty six of the Northern Territory's 51 mangrove species occur in its convoluted system of inlets, islands and bays. | | 11/27/2005 | 257 |
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 | Voron'ya (Krubera) cave is the deepest cave in the world at 2080 plus metres deep; a team of Ukrainian speleologists reached that depth after 19 days on 20th October 2004.
This cave is situated in the Orte-Balagan valley of the Arabica Massif in the Western Caucasus Mountains. | | 11/24/2005 | 413 |
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 | Oklo was natural nuclear reactor about 1.8 billion years ago in Gabon, West Africa.
Thirteen nuclear reactors were discovered along a 200-metre uranium mine bed.
Through a quirk of nature, concentration of U-235 were high enough to permit nuclear fissions to occur.
Scientists think these natural reactors could have functioned intermittently for a million years. The average... | | 11/22/2005 | 371 |
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 | Looks like a painting. | | 11/20/2005 | 594 |
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 | The fascinating shapes look like blood vessels in kidneys. Look also at the surrounding. | | 11/16/2005 | 393 |
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 | This is a dune called shifting sands in Tanzania. The wind blows it across the plains about 50 ft a year and keeps it the same shape. There is a smaller one a bit to the north. | | 11/16/2005 | 293 |
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 | A submarine river made this deep canyon in the lagoon of new Calédonia. This is a famous place for sharks, that's why the little island near the canyon is named like this "Shark island". It is also known as "Jaques Island", probably from a déformation of the initial name. | | 11/13/2005 | 299 |
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 | The biggest sand dune of europe.
More info added from jim_lh:
at 60Km from Bordeaux, in the South of the Arcachon Bay, it is possible to visit the highest dune in Europe, the Great Dune of Pyla (or Pilat). This dune reaches a height of 107m. At this summit, the view is spectacular with the ocean coast, the inlet of the Bay, the large pine forest and, when the sky is very clear, the Pyrenees... | | 11/13/2005 | 401 |
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 | You can see the landslide who destroyed the city of Longarone, in Italy, the water in the artificial lake pass over the Vajont's Dam and destroy all the valley. | | 11/11/2005 | 457 |
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 | Sands of Africa. | | 11/10/2005 | 1,554 |
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 | Talbot Bay / Horizontal Falls. Its one of the greatest natural wonders in the world. Although they are called waterfalls, this natural phenomenon actually consists of immense tidal currents hurtling through narrow coastal gorges. And they do all this sideways - hence the name, Horizontal Falls.
http://images.google.at/images?hl=de&q=horizontal%20falls&sa=N&tab=wi | | 11/10/2005 | 815 |
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 | A tamporary flooded canyon in the U.A.E./Oman | | 11/09/2005 | 345 |
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