Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2007

2007 Selected pictures

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Week 1

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

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Week 2

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

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Week 3

Generation of a tsunami. Image credit: Anthony Liekens, Koba-chan

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Week 4

Cumulonimbus capillatus incus cloud, floating over Swifts Creek, Victoria in Australia. Image credit: Fir0002

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Week 5

A hygrometer is used to measure the relative humidity. Image credit: José Cruz/Agência Brasil

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Week 6

Tonoshō port in Shodoshima Island Kagawa Prefecture, Japan at night. Photo credit: 663highland 2006.10.28

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Week 7

Drake Park, Bend, Oregon, United States on 27 December 2004. Photo credit: Erik Swanson

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Week 8

Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon. Photo credit: Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory

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Week 9

Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. Photo credit: Ofol

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Week 10

Counties of Norway. Photo credit: Júlio Reis and João David Tereso

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Week 11

Whale watching ships in Húsavík, Iceland. Photo credit: Andreas Tille

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Week 12

The Earth's tectonic plates. Image credit: AzaToth, USGS

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Week 13

Mouth of the glacier Schlatenkees, near Innergschlöß and Alte Prager Hütte, Austria. Image credit: SehLax

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Week 14

Winter scene at Shipka Pass in Bulgaria. Image credit: Psy guy

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Week 15

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.

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Week 16

Northern shore meadows of Sihlsee, an artificial lake near Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Image credit: Markus Bernet

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Week 17

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

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Week 18

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

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Week 19

Landscape produced by a receding glacier. Image credit: Luis María Benítez, Lycaon (vectorisation)

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Week 20

Husum harbour, North Germany in March 2005. Image credit: Atelier Joly

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Week 21

Super Pit gold mine in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

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Week 22

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

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Week 23

Sunset in the Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia. Image credit: Patrick Giraud

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Week 24

Bathymetric map of Indian Ocean. Image credit: NASA

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Week 25

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

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Week 26

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

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Week 27

Bridge across the Volga River near Ulyanovsk, Russia. Image credit: Olegivvit

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Week 28

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.

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Week 29

Mountain road with hairpin turns in the French Alps. Image credit: Ericd

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Week 30

Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Image credit: Luca Galuzzi

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Week 31

Interstate 80, the Eastshore Freeway, near Berkeley, California on a Saturday afternoon. Image credit: Minesweeper

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Week 32

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

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Week 33

Course and watershed of the Nile with topography shading and political boundaries. Image credit: Imagico

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Week 34

Aerial view of the transport links passing though Heavitree Gap in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Image credit: Codrington, Stephen; Planet Geography, 3rd edition

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Week 35

Diagram of a marine sextant. Image credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

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Week 36

A train crossing the Landwasser Viaduct in Switzerland. Image credit: LosHawlos

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Week 37

Synthetic Bismuth crystal, discolorations due to a thin oxide layer. Image credit: Dschwen

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Week 38

Kawaguchi town and Mount Fuji from the Kawaguchiko station. Image credit: Andy king50

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Week 39

Map of the Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar. Image credit: Kelisi

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Week 40

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

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Week 41

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

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Week 42

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

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Week 43

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

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Week 44

A barograph of the type used by the Meteorological Service of Canada. Image credit: CambridgeBayWeather

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Week 45

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

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Week 46

Illustration of echo sounding. Image credit: US Navy

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Week 47

Cross-section of a hydroelectric dam. Image credit: Tennessee Valley Authority

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Week 48

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

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Week 49

Llamas and alpacas at Lauca National Park, with Parinacota Volcano in the background. Image credit: mtchm

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Week 50

Kommunal'nyjj most, the bridge over the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, view from the Otdykha island. Image credit: Anatoliy Semyonov

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Week 51

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

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Week 52

A view on Balsthal (Switzerland) in winter. Image credit: Benjamin Baumgartner

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