Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2010

Archive of pictures edit


2010


Week 1 edit

 
Burma.

Topographical map of Burma.

Photo credit: Captain Blood


Week 2 edit

 
Burundi.

Topographical map of Burundi.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik


Week 3 edit

 
Tonle Sap Lake.

Map of the Tonle Sap Lake and its floodplain in Cambodia.

Photo credit: Matti Kummu


Week 4 edit

 
Cameroon.

Volcanic plugs dot the landscape near Rhumsiki, Far North Region in Cameroon.

Photo credit: Amcaja


Week 5 edit

 
Canada geological map.

Geological map of Canada. The Canadian Shield, stretching North from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean and covering over half of Canada, is a broad region of Precambrian rock (pictured in shades of red) that encircles Hudson Bay.

Photo credit: USGS


Week 6 edit

 
Cape Verde map.

Topographic map of Cape Verde.

Photo credit: Mysid


Week 7 edit

 
Central African Republic.

Ubangi River, a major tributary of the Congo River, at the outskirts of Bangui, capital of Central African Republic.

Photo credit: Pete Chirico, USGS


Week 8 edit

 
Lake Chad.

A composite of images showing the diminishing Lake Chad from 1973 to 2001.

Photo credit: NASA


Week 9 edit

 
Lake Chad.

Satellite image of the Atacama Desert, located in northern Chile it covers a 600-mile (1,000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is the driest desert in the world.

Photo credit: NASA


Week 10 edit

 
Lake Chad.

Longsheng Rice Terrace in Longsheng county, Guilin, China.

Photo credit: Anna Frodesiak


Week 11 edit

 
Lake Chad.

Topographic map of Colombia.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik


Week 12 edit

 
Lake Chad.

Street in the Grande Comore Island, Comoros.

Photo credit: Souef el marwane


Week 13 edit

 
Lake Chad.

Satellite picture of Brazzaville, Kinshasa and the Malebo Pool of the Congo River. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, both countries lying along the river's banks, are named after it.

Photo credit: NASA


Week 14 edit

 
Arenal.

Arenal Volcano erupting in November 2006. Arenal is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km northwest of San José.

Photo credit: Matthew Landry


Week 15 edit

 
Ivory Coast.

Topographic map of Côte d'Ivoire. In the center of the country on the Bandama River lies Lake Kossou, an artificial lake, created in 1973.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik


Week 16 edit

 
Croatia.

Topographic map of Croatia.

Photo credit: Captain Blood


Week 17 edit

 
Cuba.

La Boca fisherman's village near Trinidad, Cuba with Escambray Mountains at the back.

Photo credit: Wilder Mendez


Week 18 edit

 
Cyprus.

Troodos Mountains with its highest peak Mount Olympus (1,952 metres) in Cyprus.

Photo credit: Paul167


Week 19 edit

 
Czech Republic.

Šance Dam in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids mountain range, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.

Photo credit: Martin Kovář


Week 20 edit

 
Czech Republic.

Karlebo, Sjælland, Denmark. 60% of the land in Denmark is arable.

Photo credit: J. M. Rice


Week 21 edit

 
Djibouti.

Topographic map of Djibouti. There is no arable land, irrigation, permanent crops, and negligible forest cover.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik


Week 22 edit

 
Dominica.

Pano-wide image of Roseau, the capital of Dominica.

Photo credit: Ted Rufus Ross


Week 23 edit

 
Dominican Republic.

Beach on Saona Island, located a short distance from the mainland on the south-east tip of the Dominican Republic, near La Altagracia Province.

Photo credit: Tamas Iklodi


Week 24 edit

 
Dominican Republic.

Map of East Timor indicating cities and principal roads.

Photo credit: Mats Halldin & CIA


Week 25 edit

 
Ecuador Topography.

Topographic map of Ecuador.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik


Week 26 edit

 
Nile River and delta.

The Nile River and delta. The delta formed in Northern Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.

Photo credit: NASA


Week 27 edit

 
El Salvador slide.

Two earthquakes hit El Salvador within exactly one month of each other, on January 13 and February 13, 2001. A landslide caused by the El Salvador quake.

Photo credit: United States Geological Survey


Week 28 edit

 
El Salvador slide.

Map of Equatorial Guinea. The island of Annobón is not shown.

Photo credit: Demis.nl, Tonym88


Week 29 edit

 
Eritrea.

Topographic map of Eritrea.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik


Week 30 edit

 
Estonia.

The largest of nine craters at Kaali, found on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.

Photo credit: Siim Ainsaar


Week 31 edit

 
Ethiopia.

Dendi Caldera, Ethiopia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crew member on the International Space Station. The Dendi Caldera is located on the Ethiopian Plateau, approximately 86 kilometers to the southwest of Addis Ababa. A caldera is a geological feature formed by the near-total eruption of magma from beneath a volcano, leading to collapse of the volcanic structure into the now-empty magma chamber.

Photo credit: NASA


Week 32 edit

 
Vitilevu.

Topography of Viti Levu island, Fiji. Fiji's largest island, Viti Levu, is home to 70% of the population (about 600,000).

Photo credit: NASA


Week 33 edit

 
Finland.

Repovesi National Park in southeastern Finland.

Photo credit: M. Passinen


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France.

Map of Metropolitan French cities (agglomerations > 100,000 inhabitants on 1999 census).

Photo credit: David.Monniaux


Week 37 edit

 
Gabon.

Topographic map of Gabon.

Photo credit: Mysid


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Week 48 edit

 
Peyto Lake

Peyto Lake in Banff National Park.

Photo credit: Tobias Alt


Week 49 edit

 
Alter Strom

Alter Strom, a canal in Warnemünde, Germany

Photo credit: Alabama


Week 50 edit

 
Houston

Skyline of downtown Houston.

Photo credit: Jujutacular


Week 51 edit

 
Danau Sentarum

Danau Sentarum National Park in Borneo.

Photo credit: Natureandpoverty.net


Week 52 edit

 
Tessellated pavement

Tessellated pavement at Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania .

Photo credit: Noodle snacks