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Beautiful Harbours of the World

June 20th 2008 13:09

There are so many beautiful harbours around the world, it's impossible to choose the best. Here are a few choice examples.

Harbour Bridge, London.

Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour.

King George Sound, Albany Western Australia

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

**This image of Port Jackson and King George Sound licenced under the GNU free documentation license.

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Christmas Lights

December 21st 2007 13:02

What a beautiful use of Christmas lights!

*This image used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Abandoned Mine

July 27th 2007 14:16

These are some interesting pictures of an abandoned mine somewhere in the USA. It's becoming a bit of a tourist attraction.

Driving around and around up an open pit tourist mine

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Best View in the World?

July 25th 2007 13:53

Talk about a room with a view!

Nice View

*This picture used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Here are some truly amazing landscape pictures you can use as wallpapers for your desktop.
Just click on any of the images to open up a larger version, then right click on the picture and choose "Set as Background" or "Set as Wallpaper".
You can find even more here.

golden gate bridge clouds desktop wallpaper

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Mount Fuji

May 2nd 2007 15:45

Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. It is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu. Mount Fuji is a well-known symbol of Japan and is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers.

Mt. Fuji stands at 12,388 ft/3,776 m high and is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It is also an active stratovolcano

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Grand Canyon

July 24th 2006 03:24

The Grand Canyon is a very colourful, steep-sided gorge, in northern Arizona, USA.
The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4 to 24 km) and attains a depth of more than a mile (1,600 m). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted

Bright Angel trail, Grand Canyon, Indian Gardens.

Looking down Bright Angel trail to the Grand Canyon. The green area is Indian Gardens.

Geologists continue to debate ideas about the formation of Grand Canyon. According to Geologist Wayne Ranney: "To date, geologists have been unable to determine the canyon's precise age and what specific processes were at work in carving it". There is no authoritative theory on the formation of Grand Canyon.
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Cheviot Beach - Harold Holt

May 16th 2006 01:48

This photo of Cheviot Beach was taken from Cheviot Hill, the hightest point at Point Nepean, to the south of Melbourne.
It was named after the vessel Cheviot which was wrecked there in 1887.
Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia (26 January 1966 to 19 December 1967) dissapeared from Cheviot Beach on Sunday 17th December 1967. His body has never been found.
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