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Cosmographia des Ptolemaios by Nicolaus Germanus.

Photo credit: Nicolaus Germanus

Map of the tsunami generated by the explosion of the Krakatoa Volcano in Indonesia on August 27, 1883.

Photo credit: NOAA

View of Port Louis and harbour looking west from the Citadel in Mauritius.

Photo credit: Thierry

Landscape in Hombori, Mali.

Photo credit: Timm Guenther

Climate zones of Africa, showing the ecological break between the desert climate of the Sahara and the Horn of Africa (red), the semi-arid Sahel (orange) and the tropical climate of Central and Western Africa (blue). Southern Africa has a transition to semi-tropical or temperate climates (green), and more desert or semi-arid regions, centered on Namibia and Botswana.

Photo credit: Peel, M. C., Finlayson, B. L., and McMahon, T. A. (University of Melbourne)

Topography of Africa.

Photo credit: NASA

The cliffs, rocky outcrops and powerful waves indicate this coastline in Port Campbell in southern Australia is a high energy shoreline.

Photo credit: Codrington, Stephen

Schematic representation of the flow of nitrogen through the environment (nitrogen cycle).

Photo credit: EPA

A meandering river.

Photo credit: USDA & Mysid

Arabian Peninsula.

Photo credit: NASA

Graph showing the population of Jordan since 1960.

Photo credit: Eshcorp

The 12th century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat in Armenia.

Photo credit: Andrew Behesnilian

Singapore has a total land area of 699 km² and 193 km of coastline. It is separated from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait and from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor.

Photo credit: CIA

A tidal sandbar or shoal connecting the islands of Waya and Wayasewa of the Yasawa Islands, Fiji.

Photo credit: Doron

Lütt-Witt Moor, a bog in Henstedt-Ulzburg in northern Germany.

Photo credit: Jan van der Crabben

Darwin's theory set out a sequence of coral reefs forming round an extinct volcanic island and becoming an atoll as the island and the ocean floor subsided.

Photo credit: USGS

Three types of horizon.

Photo credit: Acdx

Map of the cumulative tracks of all tropical cyclones during the 1985–2005 time period. The Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line sees more tropical cyclones than any other basin, while there is almost no activity in the Atlantic Ocean south of the Equator.

Photo credit: Nilfanion

A map of Antelope Island State Park, which covers the entirety of Antelope Island, an island in the southeastern portion of the Great Salt Lake in the U.S. state of Utah.

Photo credit: Justin Morris

Looking towards Torres del Paine, Chile.

Photo credit: Winky

View of the Andes, a mountain range in South America.

Photo credit: Romanceor

Villarrica volcano, Chile.

Photo credit: Jorge Barrios

Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chile.

Photo credit: Romanceor

Fynbos scrubland near Franschhoek in South Africa.

Photo credit: Chris Eason

Topography of Afghanistan.

Photo credit: Captain Blood

Topographic map of Albania.

Photo credit: PZmaps

The range in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is composed largely of sandstone. Erosion in the area has resulted in spectacular landforms being formed.

Photo credit: Gruban

View from the north of the city of Andorra la Vella, the capital of the Co-principality of Andorra, located high in the east Pyrenees between France and Spain at an altitude of 1,409 metres (4,620 ft).

Photo credit: Kimdime69

1970 map of the ethnic groups of Angola. The demographics of Angola consist of three main ethnic groups, each speaking a Bantu language: Ovimbundu, Mbundu (Kimbundu), and Bakongo. Other groups include Chokwe (or Lunda), Ganguela, Nhaneca-Humbe, Ambo, Herero, and Xindunga.

Photo credit: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Dickinson Bay beach in Antigua island, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua's economy is reliant upon tourism, and it markets itself as a luxury Caribbean escape.

Photo credit: Paul Kowalow