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Mountains and volcanoes around the world. |
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 | The fourteen highest mountains in the world.All above 8 000 meters high. |  | 12/23/2005 | 1,691 | 
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 | Emei means in Chinese 'the eyebrows of Buddha'. One says you can see the 'halo of Buddha' in the clouds when standing on the top and the light is dim enough. Along the way to the summit (many many steep stairs) there are macaw monkeys, which will grab everything and can be quite agressive. There are different monasteries, temples, sacred caves, ... and tea houses(!) on the mountain - you can... |  | 12/20/2005 | 512 |
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 | Namibia - a mountain in the middle of nowhere. | | 12/11/2005 | 675 |
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 | Mountain located between Corsica and Italy. On this top there are several private transmitters of television and the communication systems towards Italy of the south and north. This small Island is located at 50 Kms of Corsica and visible from Bastia (Corsica France) |  | 12/10/2005 | 528 |
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 | Small and beautifull village in south of Corsica . | | 12/09/2005 | 321 |
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 | It is one of the most beatiful panoramic view of the highest summits of Pyrenees from France Spain border |  | 12/09/2005 | 620 |
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 | Toba is a supervolcano in the middle of the Indonesia island of Sumatra.
A large lake, 100km long and 30 km wide, now sits in the calderas.
the Dutch geologist van Bemmelen, in 1949, first found that Lake Toba was surrounded by a vast layer of ignimbrite rocks.
Later researchers found rhyolite ash similar to that in the ignimbrite around Toba in Malaysia and 3000 km away... | | 12/07/2005 | 986 |
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 | Serra dos Órgãos, a hill resembling some humans organs close to Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil. | | 12/05/2005 | 308 |
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 | Bondinho de Ubajara (Ubajara Tram), at climbing up the Serra Grande (Great Hill), in the Brazilian state of Ceará. Between Fortaleza/CE and Teresina/PI - Brazil. | | 12/05/2005 | 288 |
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 | Serra de Guaramiranga (Guaramiranga Hill), in the Brazilian state of Ceará, Brazil. Quite close to Fortaleza. | | 12/04/2005 | 297 |
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 | Here you see a high resolution picture of a Volcan on the Galappagos Islands.
Galappagos Island is the Home of the famous big Turtles, they can become over 100 years old. | | 12/03/2005 | 685 |
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 | One of the few high resolution parts in macedonia, former jugoslavia, beautiful mountain landscape | | 12/03/2005 | 630 |
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 | K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, and is thought by many climbers to be the ultimate climb. Its giant pyramid peak towers in isolation, 12,000 feet above the wide Concordia glacial field at the head of the Baltoro Glacier. The sheer icy summit is flanked by six equally steep ridges. Each of its faces presents a maze of precipices and overhangs. K2 was long considered unclimbable. ... | | 11/30/2005 | 1,863 |
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Nanga Parbat, whose name means Naked Mountain, is the ninth highest mountain in the world, and the westernmost mountain of the Himalayas. Its vast snowy face is a powerful spectacle when seen from the arid Indus Valley, approaching the mountain from the west. Here the mountain towers in isolation over 22,000 feet from the valley floor.
The mountain is easy to reac... | | 11/30/2005 | 655 |
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 | Monte Roraima is the highest mountain in Brazil. In real world it's 3014m (or 9888ft) high. Brazil, enven being very large, is not that high! It's located in the triple frontier between Brazil, Venezuela and Guiana. | | 11/28/2005 | 396 |
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 | Chapada do Apodi, between the Brazilian states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba - northeastern Brazil. | | 11/28/2005 | 372 |
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 | Serra Gaúcha, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. If you want to see snow in Brazil, that's the right place to go during the southern winter (July/August/September). Gramado, Canela, Caxias do Sul and other cities are around! | | 11/28/2005 | 393 |
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 | Serra da Capivara National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara), in the Brazilian state of Piauí, is famous by being the home for some ancient civilizations in South America. São Raimundo Nonato, Piaui, Brazil. | | 11/27/2005 | 321 |
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 | Chapada da Diamantina, the highlands of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Brasil | | 11/27/2005 | 473 |
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 | Mount Napier, one of the youngest volcanoes in Australia, is a composite lava shield with a superimposed scoria cone. The cone rises 150 m above the surrounding plains to an elevation of 440 m making it the highest point on the Western District Plains of Victoria. It erupted about 5,290 BC | | 11/27/2005 | 316 |
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 | The Island of "Ouessan" (in english "Ushant", in Breton "Enez Eusa") marks the north western most point of France. | | 11/26/2005 | 337 |
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 | A webcam pointing at Mt. St. Helens, great for watching erruptions.. the webcam is from Johnston Ridge Observatory | | 11/24/2005 | 1,138 |
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 | Glass house mountains and pineapples plantations
70 Km north of Brisbane, Australia | | 11/23/2005 | 379 |
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 | a huge snow wall in the everest mountains | | 11/10/2005 | 2,748 |
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 | the makaru shan, the fifth highest peak in the world (8463m)in the territory of tibet | | 11/09/2005 | 518 |
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