Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2007

2007 Selected pictures


Week 1 edit

 

Pressure release of granite in the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area of Texas, United States. The photo shows the geological exfoliation of granite dome rock.

Photo credit: Taken by Wing-Chi Poon on 2nd April 2005


Week 2 edit

 

The trail of underwater mountains created as the tectonic plate moved across the Hawaii hotspot over millions of years, known as the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, or the Emperor Seamounts.

Photo credit: NOAA


Week 3 edit

 

Generation of a tsunami.

Image credit: Anthony Liekens, Koba-chan


Week 4 edit

 

Cumulonimbus capillatus incus cloud, floating over Swifts Creek, Victoria in Australia.

Image credit: Fir0002


Week 5 edit

 

A hygrometer is used to measure the relative humidity.

Image credit: José Cruz/Agência Brasil


Week 6 edit

 

Tonoshō port in Shodoshima Island Kagawa Prefecture, Japan at night.

Photo credit: 663highland 2006.10.28


Week 7 edit

 

Drake Park, Bend, Oregon, United States on 27 December 2004.

Photo credit: Erik Swanson


Week 8 edit

 

Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.

Photo credit: Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory


Week 9 edit

 

Great Wall of China at Mutianyu.

Photo credit: Ofol


Week 10 edit

 

Counties of Norway.

Photo credit: Júlio Reis and João David Tereso


Week 11 edit

 

Whale watching ships in Húsavík, Iceland.

Photo credit: Andreas Tille


Week 12 edit

 

The Earth's tectonic plates.

Image credit: AzaToth, USGS


Week 13 edit

 

Mouth of the glacier Schlatenkees, near Innergschlöß and Alte Prager Hütte, Austria.

Image credit: SehLax


Week 14 edit

 

Winter scene at Shipka Pass in Bulgaria.

Image credit: Psy guy


Week 15 edit

 

Cyclone Catarina. Note the clockwise circulation of Southern Hemisphere cyclones, the well-defined banding features, and the eyewall of at least a Category 1 system. The coastline is visible under the clouds in the upper left corner of the image.

Image credit: Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-19646 was taken March 7, 2004 on the International Space Station, provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.


Week 16 edit

 

Northern shore meadows of Sihlsee, an artificial lake near Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.

Image credit: Markus Bernet


Week 17 edit

Thirty-three arch bridge aka. Si-o-se Pol, built over the Zayandeh River in Isfahan, Iran.

Image credit: Marmoulak


Week 18 edit

Colorful reef fish, Pennant coralfish, Pyramid and Milletseed butterflyfish, school in great numbers at Rapture Reef, French Frigate Shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Image credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Week 19 edit

 

Landscape produced by a receding glacier.

Image credit: Luis María Benítez, Lycaon (vectorisation)


Week 20 edit

 

Husum harbour, North Germany in March 2005.

Image credit: Atelier Joly


Week 21 edit

Super Pit gold mine in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.


Week 22 edit

 

Burnt forest 15th June 2004 along Rocky Point Trail, McDonald Lake region, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. This photo vividly shows a burnt forest. The forest fire happened one year ago in summer 2003. Some rare woodpeckers only inhabit recently burnt forest; the burnt forest also provides a chance for botanist to study plant succession in a dramatically altered ecosystem, and for geologists to study the landscape without being covered by vegetation.

Image credit: Wing-Chi Poon


Week 23 edit

 

Sunset in the Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia.

Image credit: Patrick Giraud


Week 24 edit

 

Bathymetric map of Indian Ocean.

Image credit: NASA


Week 25 edit

 

Smog in Beijing, China in August 2005. The photo on the right was taken during a sunny, otherwise clear day, the photo on the left was taken on another day, after it had rained for approximately 2 days. Both of these photos were taken in the morning around the 07:00-08:00 hour.

Image credit: Bobak Ha'Eri


Week 26 edit

 

The 30 October, 2002 Mount Etna eruption as seen from the International Space Station.

Image credit: NASA


Week 27 edit

 

Bridge across the Volga River near Ulyanovsk, Russia.

Image credit: Olegivvit


Week 28 edit

 

A massive sand storm cloud is close to enveloping a military camp as it rolls over Al Asad, Iraq, just before nightfall on April 27, 2005.

Image credit: Corporal Alicia M. Garcia, U.S. Marine Corps.


Week 29 edit

 

Mountain road with hairpin turns in the French Alps.

Image credit: Ericd


Week 30 edit

 

Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia.

Image credit: Luca Galuzzi


Week 31 edit

 

Interstate 80, the Eastshore Freeway, near Berkeley, California on a Saturday afternoon.

Image credit: Minesweeper


Week 32 edit

 

View of Mount Herschel (3,335 m) from Cape Hallett. It lies in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica.

Image credit: Luca Galuzzi


Week 33 edit

 

Course and watershed of the Nile with topography shading and political boundaries.

Image credit: Imagico


Week 34 edit

 

Aerial view of the transport links passing though Heavitree Gap in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Image credit: Codrington, Stephen; Planet Geography, 3rd edition


Week 35 edit

 

Diagram of a marine sextant.

Image credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar


Week 36 edit

 

A train crossing the Landwasser Viaduct in Switzerland.

Image credit: LosHawlos


Week 37 edit

 

Synthetic Bismuth crystal, discolorations due to a thin oxide layer.

Image credit: Dschwen


Week 38 edit

 

Kawaguchi town and Mount Fuji from the Kawaguchiko station.

Image credit: Andy king50


Week 39 edit

 

Map of the Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar.

Image credit: Kelisi


Week 40 edit

 

Mansfield Hollow Lake in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the dam as a flood control measure. It impounds the waters of the Natchaug River.

Image credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers


Week 41 edit

 

The Athabasca River railroad track at the mouth of Brule Lake in Alberta, Canada.

Image credit: Anomity


Week 42 edit

 

Radar animation of Tropical Storm Barry passing through Florida, United States from 07Z to 16Z June 2, 2007.

Image credit: NOAA


Week 43 edit

 

Kaindy Lake in south-east of Kazakhstan. The mountain lakes like this form after the landslide blocks the mountain river. The sticks are dead Picea schrenkiana trees.

Image credit: Jonas Satkauskas


Week 44 edit

 

A barograph of the type used by the Meteorological Service of Canada.

Image credit: CambridgeBayWeather


Week 45 edit

 

The M2 tidal constituent. Amplitude is indicated by color, and the white lines are cotidal differing by 1 hr. The curved arcs around the amphidromic points show the direction of the tides, each indicating a synchronized 6 hour period.

Image credit: NASA


Week 46 edit

 

Illustration of echo sounding.

Image credit: US Navy


Week 47 edit

 

Cross-section of a hydroelectric dam.

Image credit: Tennessee Valley Authority


Week 48 edit

 

A panorama of central Wellington, in New Zealand. It was taken from the summit of Mount Victoria at night.

Image credit: Geocachernemesis


Week 49 edit

 

Llamas and alpacas at Lauca National Park, with Parinacota Volcano in the background.

Image credit: mtchm


Week 50 edit

 

Kommunal'nyjj most, the bridge over the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, view from the Otdykha island.

Image credit: Anatoliy Semyonov


Week 51 edit

 

The Mattertal, a valley in the Alps, Switzerland. On the western slope a large alluvial fan, deposited by a landslide in the 1990s, can be seen above the village of Randa.

Image credit: Woudloper


Week 52 edit

 

A view on Balsthal (Switzerland) in winter.

Image credit: Benjamin Baumgartner