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 | 1421 lakes (tso) up to 1 km in Tibet.
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 | BUGA 05 (National Garden Festival) - the 2005 summer event in Munich. It is not just a park - under the theme "change of perspectives" it offers as expected hundreds of thousands of flowers and plants, but it also invites its visitors to review maybe even rethink their attitude towards nature. The BUGA 05 exhibition area was designed by Munich-based landscape architect Rainer Schmidt.... | | 10/08/2005 | 339 |
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 | Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. |  | 10/07/2005 | 137 |
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 | In 1967 Harold Holt, the Australian Prime Minister disappeared, presumed drowned, while swimming near Portsea, Victoria. What type of memorial would you build for someone who drowned? A swimming pool, of course. A genuine tribute or a macabre gesture by an official with a sick sense of humour, we'll never know. |  | 10/07/2005 | 108 |
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 | The Canada Olympic Park in Calgary (Or the C.O.P as the locals call it). This facility/park hosted about 75% of the events in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Today it continues as a skiing and winter sports park in winter, and a bike park, and a summer program facility in the summer. It is on a relatively steep slope (30-60 degrees steep), but you cannot really see that in Google Earth. | | 10/07/2005 | 253 |
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 | The big garden Herrenhausen in Hannover is one of the most famous baroque garden in Europa. |  | 10/05/2005 | 302 |
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 | Floriade is "Australia's Celebration of Spring" held in Commonwealth Park in Canberra. You can see all the flowerbeds in bloom. Each year there is a different theme for the festival. | | 10/04/2005 | 112 |
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 | This park is named after the birthplace of Gautam Buddha. | | 10/03/2005 | 247 |
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 | Hannover Zoo | | 10/03/2005 | 210 |
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 | NTR Marg, Hyderabad, India | | 10/02/2005 | 134 |
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 | One of the largest and the best zoos in Asia, the Nehru Zoological Park has nearly 1,500 species of animals, birds and reptiles.A must visit for all those who can walk around for 6-7 hours to cover the entire zoo which is on 300 acres of land. | | 10/01/2005 | 147 |
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 | El Lago de Chapala (Lake Chapala) in Jalisco, Mexico.
It is Mexico's biggest freshwater lake, and from 1970/80 to 2002 it was getting smaller and smaller because of continued and flagrant use by corrupt officials and illegal pumping. Due to heavy rains, however, the lake has gotten progressively bigger and bigger. The High-Resolution parts in the north of the lake are probably dated from... | | 10/01/2005 | 135 |
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 | Lake Van, is the largest lake in Turkey (second largest in the Middle East), located in the far east of the country. |  | 09/30/2005 | 202 |
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 | The 2nd largest lake in Turkey, Lake Tuz is one of the richest salt beds in the world. The name Tuz Golu can be plainly translated into English as "Salt Lake." |  | 09/30/2005 | 254 |
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 | Jingshan Park is a public park located immediately north of the Forbidden City. The artificial hill of the park was constructed entirely from the soil excavated in forming the moats of the Imperial Palace and nearby canals. | | 09/29/2005 | 207 |
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 | Quite a nice place to relax, have a picnic etc. There's a minature train and a maze too. Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Park,_Canberra | | 09/29/2005 | 259 |
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 | Located in Canberra across the road from the ANU and at the base of Black Mountain which has Telstra Tower on top of it. | | 09/29/2005 | 116 |
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 | Fort No. 1 was the last in a chain of three forts built under the supervision of British military engineers between 1865 and 1872. These forts completed the defense network protecting Québec against future land invasion by the Americans. | | 09/28/2005 | 147 |
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 | These are the botanical gardens at Bangalore, IT Capital of India. | | 09/27/2005 | 298 |
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 | The Palmengarten is a trust established by the citizens of Frankfurt in 1868. On 50 acres, the gardens display numerous beautiful and interesting plants throughout the year. In addition, the Palmengarten offers a variety of recreational activities including guided tours, summer concerts, evening festivals and exhibitions. | | 09/25/2005 | 194 |
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 | Since the Smallholdings & Allotments Act 1908, UK local authorities have been obliged to provide plots of land to local householders (typically about 300 sq. yards for around £40 a year) to grow fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately they are increasingly left vacant, as can be seen here. | | 09/24/2005 | 87 |
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 | Worked on by leading architects and garden designers, including Vanbrugh & Capability Brown, since the 17th century, Stowe is said to be the first garden for which a guide book was produced. | | 09/24/2005 | 121 |
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 | Marineland Ontario. The large pools are for the Killer Whales. | | 09/24/2005 | 257 |
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 | View of Mormon Lake in Arizona | | 09/23/2005 | 80 |
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 | The Parma Citadel is a pentagonal fortress with bastions and moats, once full of water, planned by Francesco Paciotto. Construction was started by Alessandro Farnese, third Duke of Parma at the end of the 16th century and was finished in 1599. | | 09/23/2005 | 141 |
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