Lake Disappointment, Australia

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Lago Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz, Argentina

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Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada

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Close to Saidane, Tunisia

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Suez Canal, Egypt

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Read about the suez canal.

Hesperia, California, USA

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Tazovsky, Yamalo-Nenets, Russia

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Read about the Nenets living in this area.

Check out some beautiful images by Kadir Van Lohuizen.

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You know that I love the Russian and especially the Siberian landscape!

Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil

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Read about Fernando de Noronha.

Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada

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Read about Cambridge Bay and the history of the North West Passage.

Read about Franklin's lost expedition exploring the area.

Aralsk, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

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Aralsk was one a busy fishing port on the banks of the Aral Sea. But the lake has all but disappeared when the feeding rivers where diverted for irrigation. You can zoom in and check out the abandoned ships at the southern end of the old harbour. And here is an interesting account from a travel blog.

Tamanrasset, Algeria

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Read about Tamanrasset and the old forts of the Sahara.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin, Russia

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Read about Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The building with the red roof is the train station. From there you can catch a train to Nogliki further up north. White Sun of The Desert is an interesting blog by Tim Newman about Russia, Sakhalin and the Far East where you can read about the train trip to Nogliki. The oil industry is moving in on Sakhalin. Read about it in Businessweek and the The Guardian.

Iquitos, Peru

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Read about Iquitos, the worlds most populated city that cannot be reached by road! You can travel on the Amazon river via Manaus ,"The Paris of the Tropics", all the way down to Belem in Brazil.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

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Read about Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This picture of the harbour is fantastic. Someday I will travel there.

Close to Kumkent, Kazakhstan

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Read more about this area in Justin Jansens Kazakhstan Travel Page at Virtual Tourist!

Pukarua, French Polynesia

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Read about Pukarua.

Peros Banhos, British Indian Ocean Territory

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Read about Peros Banhos and the Ilois that used to live here.

Astove Island, Seychelles

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Read about Astove Island.

Koh Ngai, Thailand

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Koës, Namibia

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Shirley, Namibia

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Close to Gumare, Okavango Delta, Botswana

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Read more about the fascinating Okavango Delta where the Okavango River empties into the Kalahari Desert instead of having it's outlet into the sea.

Gulf of Fonseca, bordering El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua

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Sanlong, Jiangsu, China

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Image of Earth as Wallpaper

It's super simple to set an image of earth as a desktop background. Just click once on an image and then right click on the larger picture that is shown and select set as wallpaper.



Even cooler though is to get an image of earth as desktop background/wallpaper on your mobile phone. Since I'm only using Opera Mini as web browser on my mobile nowadays (www.operamini.com, download now using your default mobile browser if you haven't already got it) I'll walk you through the simple steps using it!

1. Surf to imagesofearth.blogspot.com
2. Click/select an image
3. When the larger image is shown select "Get image..." on the top of the screen
4. Your are shown different resolutions, pick your choice
5. The download starts
6. Use your phones desktop background/wallpaper feature (on a SonyEricsson w810i you will get a choice when the download have finished to use the image as wallpaper!)
7. Enjoy!

South Georgia, British Overseas Territory

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Read about South Georgia, Grytviken and of course the adventures of Sir Ernest Shackelton in Wikipedia!

Lago de Coipasa, Bolivia

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Check out the Transamerica Cycle Tour 2005/2006 blog and specifically the Chile/Bolivia post for some beautiful images from the area!

Close to Sutherland, South Africa

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Lake Powell, Utah, USA

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Oeno, Pitcairn Islands, British Overseas Territory

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I know, I'm a sucker for Islands... Next picture will be a desert one.

Read more about Pitcairn Islands in Wikipedia.

Find other interesting Islands at the totally fascinating site Oceandots.com!