Showing posts with label Antarctica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antarctica. Show all posts

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Amazing striped icebergs

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.

Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe.

Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.







Sunday, May 18, 2008

Bird's Eye View / Aerial Pictures





Icebergs and Adelie Penguins, Adelie Land, Antarctica


Cliffs of Inishmore, Aran Islands, County Clare, Ireland


Mount Trafalgar, Prince Regent Nature, West Kimberley, Australia


Osaka Palace, Honshu, Japan


The meandering Amazon river near Manaus, Brazil


Elephants in the Okavango Delta, Botswana


Working in the fields north of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India


Bowling Green Bay National Park, South of Townsville, Queensland, Australia


Islet in the terraced rice fields of Bali, Indonesia


Sand Dune in the heart of vegetation on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia


Cotton fabrics drying in the sun in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India


Sandbank on the coast of Whitsunday Island, Queensland, Australia


Chapel on an Islet off the coast of Kos, Dodecanese, Greece


Italian base, Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica


Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia


Fishermen's Island in Hiroshima Bay, Honshu, Japan


Buccaneer Archipelago West Kimberley, Australia


Northern Gannet Colony, Eldey Island, Iceland


Gosse's Bluff Meteoric Crater, Northern Territory, Australia


Ritual bathing at the Ghats, Varanasi, India


Zebras in Kenya


Camels in Turkey

Sunday, January 13, 2008

A World Atlas

Atlas, Morocco


Botswana


Libya


Burundi


Tunisia


Zimbabwe


Yemen


Jerusalem, Palestine


Petra, Jordan


Palmyra, Syria


Maldives


Agra, India


Baltoto, Pakistan


Laos


Bali


Myanmar


Fiji


French Polynesia


Sydney, Australia


Kilauea, Hawaii, USA


Banff, Canada


Arizona, USA


Chichen Itza, Mexico


Cuba


Pittons, St Lucia


Rio de Janerio, Brazil


Machu Pichu, Peru


Andes, Argentina


Antarctica


Iceland


Moscow, Russia


Prague, Czech Republic


Istanbul, Turkey


Mykonos, Greece


Paris, France