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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 | 261 | 
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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 | 221 |
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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 | 257 |
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 | it looks like a tree (cameroon) |  | 12/22/2005 | 170 |
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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 | 240 |
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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 | 473 |
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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 | 396 |
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 | island, which is figurated like a bird in the black sea near odesa |  | 12/14/2005 | 393 |
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 | this farmland looks like an gemstone, located in brazil | | 12/13/2005 | 271 |
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 | Inga Falls on the Congo River | | 12/12/2005 | 395 |
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 | RDC - Congo river near Kinshasa | | 12/12/2005 | 322 |
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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 | 306 |
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 | The Pantanal, in between Brazil and Bolivia. |  | 12/10/2005 | 324 |
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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 | 305 |
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 | Beautiful lake in China located in Sichuan province | | 12/03/2005 | 469 |
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 | Ponta do Seixas, the Americas' Eastern Extreme Point. O Extremo Oriental das Américas. João Pessoa, PB - Brasil. | | 11/28/2005 | 252 |
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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 | 153 |
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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 | 2,307 |
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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 | 339 |
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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 | 198 |
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 | this lake in russia looks like a sleeping bear | | 11/27/2005 | 260 |
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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 | 333 |
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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 | 311 |
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 | Lake Vostok may be the coldest, deepest and most southerly lake on earth.
The lake's exact age is unknown, but it is probably millions of years old. Vostok's water is considered to be the most pure on earth, since it has remained untouched beneath 4km of ice for its entire lifespan.
The lake sits beneath a Russian research station that has seen the lowest temperatures ever record... | | 11/22/2005 | 365 |
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 | Looks like a painting. | | 11/20/2005 | 570 |
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