Much of the land surface is covered by salt evaporation ponds and a saline lake known as Town Pond, around which the capital—Cockburn Town—developed.
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Shelterbelts, or wind breaks, are used to protect and preserve farmland in southern Russian.
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Millennia of human development stand alongside mainland Europe’s only active volcano.
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The International Space Station got a view of the overflowing dam.
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The usually dry, inland lake in Australia came alive with color after flood waters arrived in the late summer of 2017.
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Salt and algae lend color to the bed of this desert lake in Iran.
Ancient monasteries and settlements dot these islands in the middle of Ethiopia’s largest lake.
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Australia’s second-largest city has an historic past.
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Astronauts on the Space Station had a glowing view of their professional home, as well as the site of Super Bowl 51.
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Lands along the Priest River show a human hand at work.
One of the largest reservoirs in the United States stands alongside one of the largest national monuments.
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This lagoon along the Brazil-Uruguay border formed when sea level was much higher, and has since evolved from a marine to freshwater lake.
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An astronaut photographed the interplay of light and wind on South America’s largest lake.
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Different farming patterns mark various attempts to grow crops on the dry North African landscape.
Salt and wind have painted a colorful, swirling landscape in the highlands of central Chile.
This ancient rock is one of Australia’s major tourist attractions and a sacred place for indigenous people.
Situated on the Idaho-Utah border, it is one of the bigger lakes in the Rocky Mountains.
Hundreds of lakes and ponds dot this inland delta in Argentina.
Thin layers of lighter and darker blues reveal the many layers of the atmosphere.
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These white mounds are the world’s largest gypsum dune field, centerpiece of the White Sands National Monument.
Dunes grow upon dunes at one of the most visually spectacular places on Earth, at least from an astronaut’s perspective.
Thunderhead anvils stretch out in three dimensions against the thin blue envelope of the atmosphere.
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The shallow seas allow us to see vivid details of how waves, winds, and tides shape the islands.
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Once clouds have cleared away, the effects of major storms often can be viewed from space for days and weeks.
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The inland sea in Central Asia has a host of distinctive features along its shores.
The dark, pine-covered slopes rise up from the Great Plains like an island from a sea of grass.
The islands of this tourist mecca are actually the rim of an old volcano.
Parts of the Glen Canyon that John Wesley Powell explored in 1869 have been submerged by Lake Powell.
These wide Australian floodplains are unique on the planet. Scientists think they are caused by the extreme variation in water and sediment discharges from the local rivers.
Great Aletsch in Switzerland is the largest glacier in Europe.
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