Portal:Geography/Featured picture archive/2008

Pictures on SP in 2008

Week 1

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

Arctic Circle, Santa Claus' Village in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Image credit: Birit Schenk

Week 3

Flooding in Amphoe Sena, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand.

Image credit: Alabamaboy

Week 4

Water cycles between ocean, atmosphere, and glaciers.

Image credit: NASA

Week 5

Surface waves of water: expansion of a disturbance.

Image credit: Roger McLassus

Week 10

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

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

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

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

San Francisco harbor, 1850 or 1851, with Alcatraz Island in the background.

Image credit: unknown

Week 15

Sunset in Bangkok, showing the skytrain and modern skyline, taken from the corner of Thanon Silom.

Image credit: Diliff

Week 16

Grand Prismatic Spring.

Image credit: National Park Service

Week 17

Iguassu Falls.

Image credit: Anouchka Unel

Week 18

Detroit, Michigan.

Image credit: Shawn Wilson

Week 19

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

Point No Point Light at Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State, United States

Image credit: Moxfyre

Week 21

Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong, China.

Image credit: 39kschan

Week 23

Approximate extent of the Mackenzie River watershed. It is the longest river in Canada.

Image credit: Geo Swan

Week 24

Howard's Pass in Nahanni National Park Reserve in Yukon, Canada.

Image credit: Jo Ohara

Week 25

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

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

Topographic map of the island of Hawaii.

Image credit: Sémhur

Week 28

Dead trees in the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.

Image credit: Thegreenj

Week 29

Beach of Anse Source d'Argent on the island of La Digue, Seychelles.

Image credit: Tobias Alt

Week 30

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

Mulberry Street, New York City, New York, United States c. 1900.

Image credit: User:Debivort

Week 32

Moving sand dunes in part of the Sahara, south western Libya.

Image credit: (Luca Galuzzi) * http://www.galuzzi.it

Week 33

Terraced rice fields in Yunnan Province, China.

Image credit: Jialiang Gao

Week 34

Description of relations between axial tilt (or obliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic.

Image credit: user:Dna-webmaster

Week 35

Beijing CBD (Commercial Business District) area.

Image credit: 39degN

Week 36

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

Lokrum isle in the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.

Image credit: László Szalai (Beyond silence)

Week 38

Alluvial fans at Andes Mountain, Los Penitentes, Mendoza, Argentina.

Image credit: Eurico Zimbres

Week 39

Arctic shrinkage of ice in the Arctic Sea in February 2008.

Image credit: NASA

Week 40

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