Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2008
Pictures on SP in 2008
Week 1[edit]
The Vinland map, a 15th century world map purportedly based on a 13th century original. If authentic, it is the first known depiction of the North American coastline. Image credit: creator unknown |
Week 2[edit]
Arctic Circle, Santa Claus' Village in Rovaniemi, Finland. Image credit: Birit Schenk |
Week 3[edit]
Flooding in Amphoe Sena, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. Image credit: Alabamaboy |
Week 4[edit]
Water cycles between ocean, atmosphere, and glaciers. Image credit: NASA |
Week 5[edit]
Surface waves of water: expansion of a disturbance. Image credit: Roger McLassus |
Week 6[edit]
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Week 7[edit]
Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 7
Week 8[edit]
Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 8
Week 9[edit]
Oceania's regions. Image credit: ASDFGH |
Week 10[edit]
The mouth of Cattaraugus Creek on Lake Erie near Sunset Bay, New York, United States. The Cattaraugus Indian Reservation occupies the land on the north side (upper in this photograph) of the creek. View is to the north. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the breakwaters and dredges the channel as necessary. Image credit: Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Week 11[edit]
Rainbows can often be seen in the spray and mist coming from larger waterfalls, as here at Takakkaw Falls, Canada. Image credit: Michael Rogers |
Week 12[edit]
Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania circa 1959, a new town constructed in a previously undeveloped area. Image credit: National Archives and Records Administration |
Week 13[edit]
Tornado climatology: Intense tornado activity in the United States. The darker-colored areas denote the area commonly referred to as Tornado Alley. Image credit: Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Week 14[edit]
San Francisco harbor, 1850 or 1851, with Alcatraz Island in the background. Image credit: unknown |
Week 15[edit]
Sunset in Bangkok, showing the skytrain and modern skyline, taken from the corner of Thanon Silom. Image credit: Diliff |
Week 16[edit]
Image credit: National Park Service |
Week 17[edit]
Image credit: Anouchka Unel |
Week 18[edit]
Image credit: Shawn Wilson |
Week 19[edit]
A simulated-color satellite image of Detroit, with Windsor across the Detroit River, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite. Image credit: NASA |
Week 20[edit]
Point No Point Light at Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State, United States Image credit: Moxfyre |
Week 21[edit]
Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong, China. Image credit: 39kschan |
Week 22[edit]
Image credit: NASA |
Week 23[edit]
Approximate extent of the Mackenzie River watershed. It is the longest river in Canada. Image credit: Geo Swan |
Week 24[edit]
Howard's Pass in Nahanni National Park Reserve in Yukon, Canada. Image credit: Jo Ohara |
Week 25[edit]
Nevado San Francisco, or Cerro San Francisco, is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, located just southeast of San Francisco Pass. It is considered extinct. Image credit: Éric Depagne |
Week 26[edit]
The cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), at the age of about 50. He was the author of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Image credit: Public Domain |
Week 27[edit]
Topographic map of the island of Hawaii. Image credit: Sémhur |
Week 28[edit]
Dead trees in the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. Image credit: Thegreenj |
Week 29[edit]
Beach of Anse Source d'Argent on the island of La Digue, Seychelles. Image credit: Tobias Alt |
Week 30[edit]
The pier of the seaside resort Prerow in Nordvorpommern, Germany. On the foreground, a Scott's pine (Pinus sylvestris) Image credit: Simon Koopmann |
Week 31[edit]
Mulberry Street, New York City, New York, United States c. 1900. Image credit: User:Debivort |
Week 32[edit]
Moving sand dunes in part of the Sahara, south western Libya. Image credit: (Luca Galuzzi) * http://www.galuzzi.it |
Week 33[edit]
Terraced rice fields in Yunnan Province, China. Image credit: Jialiang Gao |
Week 34[edit]
Description of relations between axial tilt (or obliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic. Image credit: user:Dna-webmaster |
Week 35[edit]
Beijing CBD (Commercial Business District) area. Image credit: 39degN |
Week 36[edit]
Two computer models showing the amount of methane found at the Earth's surface and in the stratosphere. Image credit: GMAO Chemical Forecasts and GEOS–CHEM NRT Simulations for ICARTT (top) and Randy Kawa, NASA GSFC Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch (lower) |
Week 37[edit]
Lokrum isle in the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia. Image credit: László Szalai (Beyond silence) |
Week 38[edit]
Alluvial fans at Andes Mountain, Los Penitentes, Mendoza, Argentina. Image credit: Eurico Zimbres |
Week 39[edit]
Arctic shrinkage of ice in the Arctic Sea in February 2008. Image credit: NASA |
Week 40[edit]
Profile through the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Morphological main features in the deep sea are shown like the mid-ocean ridge (West Scotia Ridge), separating the Antarctic Plate from the South American Plate. The South Shetland Islands belong to an island belt, resulting from the subduction of the Pacific plate below the Antarctic plate. In the back arc basin, i.e. the Bransfield Strait, submarine volcanoes have been found. The upper graph shows salinity and temperature in surface water measured along a cruise track. The Polar front is an oceanographic feature which is characterized by a steep change in temperature by some degree. Image credit: Hannes Grobe |
Week 41[edit]
Topographic map of the Red Sea, UTM projection (WGS84 datum). Image credit: Eric Gaba |
Week 42[edit]
Lake Assal, Djibouti. Lake Assal is the most saline body of water on Earth, with 34.8% percent salt concentration. Image credit: Fishercd |
Week 43[edit]
A thunderstorm with heavy precipitation in the lower lower Adelaide River catchment in Northern Territory, Australia. Image credit: Bidgee |
Week 44[edit]
Dusk. Image credit: mailer diablo |
Week 45[edit]
Rockall, a small, isolated rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. Image credit: Anilocra |
Week 46[edit]
Two stacks on Flowerpot Island in Georgian Bay, a part of the Fathom Five National Marine Park of Ontario, Canada. Image credit: Thesofa |
Week 47[edit]
Pebbles on a shingle beach in Bossington Shingle Beach, Somerset, England. Image credit: Sean the Spook |
Week 48[edit]
Waymarked boardwalk trail through the sand dunes of Ynyslas in Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom. Image credit: Badgernet |
Week 49[edit]
Landsat image of Ōsumi Peninsula, Kagoshima, Japan. Image credit: NASA |
Week 50[edit]
Pocket beach at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Image credit: Krun |
Week 51[edit]
Diagram of a fringing coral reef. Image credit: USGS |
Week 52[edit]
Left to right: Vorder Grauspitz (2599 m), the highest mountain in Liechtenstein and Hinter Grauspitz (also: Schwarzhorn) (2574 m) from east. Image credit: Svickova |