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Anchorage, the state capitol of Alaska, is located on the upper reach of the Cook Inlet. To the west of the city is the large escarpment of the Chugach Mountains. Nearly half of the states population lives in Anchorage.
Mag Bay is a large bay on the Pacific Coast of Baja Sur and is known as a stop over for the annual gray whale migration.
Lake Tahoe is located in the central Sierra Nevada Mountain Range within the states of California and Nevada and is the second deepest lake in the U.S. The Tahoe Basin was formed by normal faulting, a characteristic of the Basin and Range to the east. Carson City, the capital of Nevada, is located to the east of the lake.
The Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area is the second most populous metropolitan area in Brazil, the sixth most populous in the Americas and the eighteenth largest in the world. Nearly 6.5 million people live in the region. The city will play host to the 2016 Olympic Games.
Natural color mosaic of Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. The Tokyo greater metropolitan area is the most populated in the world with more than 13 million people with population density is 16,000 people per square mile. Mt. Fuji is located in the southwest corner of the iamge.
Natural color high resolution aerial photograph of Gig Harbor, Washington. Gig Harbor is loacted on the Puget Sound west of Tacoma.
This natural color image shows a small portion of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The image highlites the swirling sediment paterns which emerge from currents as they pass through the area and collide with sediments flowing from land.
The Baja Peninsula and Cabo San Lucas at "Lands End", nearly 800 miles from Mexicali and San Diego.
Las Vegas, Nevada, depicted here in natural color, has been one of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States, and has a populaiton in excess of 2 million people in the greater urban area.
Rome is the capital and largest city in Italy and fourth largest city in the E.U. at nearly 4 million people in thegreat metropolitan area. Vatican city is an independent country within the city boundary.
Paris, France is the second largest metropolitan area in teh European Union with over 12 million residents. The surrounding country side is used mostly for production of a variety of crops, including sugarbeets, wheat, and grapes.
Natural color high resolution image of wetlands along the northern coast of Cuba.
Otherwise known as the Straight of Gibralter, separates Gibralter, Spain and Tangier, Morocco through a narrow passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
The greater metropolitan area of Madrid is home to more than 6 million people and is the third most populated area within the European Union behind London and Paris.
The Nile River Delta is one of the most expansive river deltas in the world. Cairo, Egypt marks the beginning of the fan shapped delta which spreads out into a lush agricultural region.
The capital of Chili, Santiago was founded in the mid-1500's. and sits at the base of the Andes in Chili's Central Valley. The greater metropolitan area is now home to more than 7 million people.
Surrounding one of the largest natural harbors in the world, Sydney is the largest city in Australia and Oceana with more than 4 million residents. The city extends to the west until it reaches the Blue Mountains.
Natural color high resolution image of wetlands along the northern coast of Cuba.
Flathead Lake and the snow-capped Canadian Rockies near Glacier National Park. The lake is part of the Rocky Mountain Trench, a glacial-cut valley which extends to the Yukon.
Los Glaciares National Park is located in the Southwest of Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine part of Patagonia. Los Glaciares owes its name to the numerous glaciers covering roughly half of the World Heritage property. Many of these glaciers are fed by the massive South Patagonian Ice Field, the most extensive South American relict of the glaciological processes of the Quaternary Period.
The second largest city in Italy and the fith largest urban area in the E.U., the Milan area is home to more than 5 million people. Lake Cumo, nestled in the foot of the Alps is located to the north of the city.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is the worlds second largest metropolitcan area with over 25 million residents.
Where east meets west, Istanbul is the capital of Turkey with a metropolitan area supporting more than 14 million people, the largest urban area in Europe, as well as the largest in the Middle East. Formerly named Constantinople and once the capital of the Roman Empire, the city was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity.
The second largest urban area in South America, Buenos Aries is the capitol city of Argentina and home to approximatly 3 million people.
Leaf-off image of the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania. The numerous folded belts were created by erosional processes over millions of years. The fertile valleys are extensively used for crop production.
Deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rhondonia is seen here. Primary forest in the amazon is routinely cleared to support soybean and pasture production.
Tianjin s a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. Part of the Bohai Economic Rim, it is the largest coastal city in northern China.
Natural color high resolution image of the greater Puget Sound area and Mount Ranier. The image shows the large urban expanse of the Seattle-Tacoma area, as well as the North Cascade Mountains.