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Gobi Desert Bristlecone pine A group of Bactrian camels grazes on green vegetation in the Gobi Desert, with large sand dunes rising in the background. A group of about forty Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae, scattered across a vast, icy Antarctic landscape with snow and blue ice formations. distribution of hot and temperate deserts
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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Cold desert: References & Edit History

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