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Shinjuku, Tokyo
Shinjuku retail and entertainment district, Tokyo, Japan.
Geoff Tompkinson/GTImage.com (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
world according to Herodotus
Map of the world, based on the description given by Herodotus (5th century
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Ptolemy's world map
Ptolemy's map of the world, originally created in the 2nd century ce;...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Map from Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum
World map from Theatrum orbis terrarum (“Theater of the World”) by Abraham...
Geography and Map Division/The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
John Webber: View of Huahine
View of Huahine, watercolour by John Webber, 1776–80. Webber was an artist...
Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney (a1673019)
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Map of Lewis and Clark Expedition by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, 1804–06.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C
German scholar Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter, lithograph by F. Jentzen from a portrait by F. Krüger.
Bruckmann/Art Resource, New York
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder, detail of a drawing by Sir William Rothenstein, 1933; in the collection...
Courtesy of the London School of Economics and Political Science; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Grinnell Glacier shrinkage
A series of photographs of the Grinnell Glacier taken from the summit of Mount Gould...
1938-T.J. Hileman/Glacier National Park Archives, 1981 - Carl Key/USGS, 1998 - Dan Fagre/USGS, 2006 - Karen Holzer/USGS
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Wildflowers blooming on the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Hurricane Catarina
Hurricane Catarina, as viewed from the International Space Station, 2004.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)(Image Number: ISS008-E-19646)
drainage pattern
Salt-encrusted sand-lined drainage patterns at the fringe of the Etosha Pan, Namibia.
Georg Gerster/Comstock
GPS-derived navigation map
Global Positioning System (GPS)-derived navigation map.
© Vadim Georgiev/stock.adobe.com
environmental activism
Environmentalists in front of the Eiffel Tower during the Paris Climate Change Conference,...
© Benoit Tessier/Reuters
glacial ice melting
Melting glacial ice, San Rafael Glacier, Chile.
© Ribeiroantonio/Shutterstock.com
Global sea level change
Change in sea surface height from 1993 to 2008, according to data collected from...
NASA/JPL
Bosnia and Herzegovina: election, 1996
Resident casting his vote in a local election in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1996,...
SRA Marvence D. Braswell, USAF/U.S. Department of Defense
E. coli disease outbreak of 2011
The severity of the E. coli disease outbreak of 2011 shown by country.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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