User:Teofilo/Earth from the sky
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A selection of pictures, taken from Flickr or NASA, either directly or retouched :
Americas
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Parana River Delta
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Buenos Aires and Rio de la Plata
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Buenos Aires
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Tegucigalpa
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Mangrove in Belize
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Buck Island, British Virgin Islands
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Grand Cayman
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Les Saintes, small islands near Guadeloupe
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Everglades
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The Overseas Highway, connecting the Florida Keys
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Ponce de Leon Inlet and Lighthouse, Florida
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Daytona Beach International Airport
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Penn Cove, Whidbey Island, Washington
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Useless Bay, Whidbey Island, Washington
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Deception Pass Bridge, between Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands, Washington
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Vancouver
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The Three Sisters, Oregon
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Red River near Shreveport, Louisiana
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St. Louis
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Cincinnati
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Warwick, Rhode Island
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Long Island Sound
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West Orange, New Jersey
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West Orange, Newark airport, Verrazano Bridge
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Harlem River, Hudson River, George Washington Bridge, Central Park
Europe
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Keflavik, Iceland
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Heimaey Island, Iceland : X-shaped airport and 2 volcanoes
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Clyde estuary, Scotland
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Windsor
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Eton
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M25 motorway, London
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Isles of Scilly, Cornwall
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Isle of Wight and the Solent
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The chalk cliffs at Beachy Head, East Sussex
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Øresund Bridge, linking Danemark with Sweden
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Landskrona, Sweden, Øresund, Denmark in the background
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Inkoo coal-fired power plant, Finland
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Rømø, Mandø, Fanø : Islands in the North Sea, Southern Denmark
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Rømø alone : retouched picture
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Omø & Agersø, Baltic Sea, Denmark
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The Holland Brug (bridge), linking Flevoland with Holland
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Isola del Giglio, near Tuscany
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The other, more inhabited side of Isola del Giglio
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L'Île-Rousse, Corsica
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Le Pont d'Argenteuil, no longer as romantic as it was in Claude Monet's time
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Premier, village in Switzerland
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Another village in Switzerland
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Yet another village in Switzerland
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Switzerland really looks like a model railroad toy
Africa
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Agdal Gardens in Marrakech
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Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, a popular neighbourhood in Marrakech
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Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
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Isla de Lobos, Canary Islands
Iran
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Beris, Sistan and Baluchistan province, on the Gulf of Oman
Hawaii
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Hilo, Hawaii
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Hakalau
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Molokini
Philippines
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El Nido, Palawan
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El Nido, Palawan
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Taal Volcano
South China Sea
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Crescent Group, Paracel Islands, between China and Vietnam
Vietnam
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Thi Nai Bridge and Phuong Mai Peninsula
Malaysia
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Johor River estuary
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Sungai Johor Bridge construction in 2007
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Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
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Kuala Penyu, about half way between Kota Kinabalu and Brunei
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Rawang, a city in the North of Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
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Changi Airport Fuel Hydrant Installation (CAFHI) Jetty
New Caledonia
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Ouinné, on the South East coast
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Nouméa and the New Caledonian barrier reef
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Récif de l'Annibal
Australia
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Elizabeth River Bridge carrying the new Darwin-Alice Springs railway
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Conway National Park, Queensland
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Hamilton Island, Queensland
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Moreton Island, near Brisbane
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Maheno shipwreck on Fraser Island, Queensland
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This silver ribbon is Bribane River
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Cobar, New South Wales, 700 km North West of Sydney : the colour of the earth is a reminder of the presence of copper mines nearby
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Northern Beaches and Pittwater, North of Sydney
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Is any description necessary ?
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Garie Beach, South of Sydney
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Northam Airport, Western Australia, at the crossroads of the Great Eastern Highway with Route 115
New Zealand
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Tasman Bay, North of South Island
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Fox Glacier, from helicopter
Tonga
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Niuafo'ou volcano
Indian Ocean
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Glorioso Islands
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Malé, the capital of the Maldives
South Atlantic Ocean
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Bouvet Island