An Odd Geography

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Angleterre by A.M. Cassandre, 1934

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jeroenapers:

Waarschijnlijk een van de oudste vormen van hoogbouw in de wereld, Dar Al-Hajar bij het plaatsje Souk Al Wadi in Jemen. Ook wel het Paleis van de Islam genoemd, ook al is het ontstaan van het bouwwerk ouder dan deze godsdienst.
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Woodstock - Celia Pavey (covers Joni Mitchell’s version)

World, look out for this woman (she’s only 19)… she’s coming.

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Mt Ruapehu’s 1995 Eruption | New Zealand | © Tim Whittaker

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Blood Falls, a Natural Time Capsule Containing a Unique Ecosystem

This five-story, blood-red “waterfall” pours ever so slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valley. Geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, and believed the red color came from algae. Its true nature turned out to be more spectacular.

Roughly two million years ago, a small body of water containing an ancient community of microbes was sealed beneath the surface of the Taylor Glacier. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, the microbes have remained isolated inside a natural time capsule, in a place with no light, oxygen, or heat.

The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the seepage its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the microbial subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

More photos of Blood Falls can be seen on Atlas Obscura

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sixthland:

Colombia’s Santa Cruz del Islote is the world’s most crowded island. It has no electrcity, but plenty of people. It is so densely populated that people have to walk through each other’s kitchen to get from one place to another

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Hill of Shame by Gianni Cipriano

The so-called Hill of Shame is a hill in the island of Lampedusa, half-way between Sicily and North Africa in the Mediterranean Sea, where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions in improvised tents during the immigration crisis in April 2011. Tents were built with metal sticks, sheets, clothes and mattresses in an open-air dump of plastic bags, dishes and bottles used as urinals. In 2011, about 53,000 North African and Sub-Saharan migrants arrived in the so-called “Door of Europe”, fleeing the unrest of the region and stranded on the island in appalling conditions. Migrants weren’t provided with the most basic humanitarian assistance such as shelter, medical care, blankets and access to sanitary facilities, while thousands slept outdoors.

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Shrinking of the Aral Sea

Abandoned ships, Aral Sea

Male, Maldives

Graffiti 6 - Wash My Sins

25 Creepy Places around the world

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