Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2010

Archive of pictures

2010

Week 1

Burma.

Topographical map of Burma.

Photo credit: Captain Blood

Week 2

Burundi.

Topographical map of Burundi.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik

Week 3

Tonle Sap Lake.

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

Photo credit: Matti Kummu

Week 4

Cameroon.

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

Photo credit: Amcaja

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

Cape Verde map.

Topographic map of Cape Verde.

Photo credit: Mysid

Week 7

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

Lake Chad.

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

Photo credit: NASA

Week 9

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

Lake Chad.

Longsheng Rice Terrace in Longsheng county, Guilin, China.

Photo credit: Anna Frodesiak

Week 11

Lake Chad.

Topographic map of Colombia.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik

Week 12

Lake Chad.

Street in the Grande Comore Island, Comoros.

Photo credit: Souef el marwane

Week 13

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

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

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

Croatia.

Topographic map of Croatia.

Photo credit: Captain Blood

Week 17

Cuba.

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

Photo credit: Wilder Mendez

Week 18

Cyprus.

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

Photo credit: Paul167

Week 19

Czech Republic.

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

Photo credit: Martin Kovář

Week 20

Czech Republic.

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

Photo credit: J. M. Rice

Week 21

Djibouti.

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

Photo credit: Sadalmelik

Week 22

Dominica.

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

Photo credit: Ted Rufus Ross

Week 23

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

Dominican Republic.

Map of East Timor indicating cities and principal roads.

Photo credit: Mats Halldin & CIA

Week 25

Ecuador Topography.

Topographic map of Ecuador.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik

Week 26

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

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

El Salvador slide.

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

Photo credit: Demis.nl, Tonym88

Week 29

Eritrea.

Topographic map of Eritrea.

Photo credit: Sadalmelik

Week 30

Estonia.

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

Photo credit: Siim Ainsaar

Week 31

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