Caribou graze on tundra, tinted orange by the sun, somewhere between Nome and Teller on western Alaska’s Seward Peninsula. Caribou share this remote, sub-Arctic expanse with musk oxen, moose, and grizzly bears, among other hearty creatures.
驯鹿放牧于抹上一层橘的黄苔原上，位于西阿拉斯加Seward半岛的Nome and Teller。驯鹿同麝牛，驼鹿，大灰熊以及其它强健动物，共享这片偏远的亚北极区旷野。
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Alaska, 1969)
March 12, 2007
Tasmania, Australia, 1996
Photograph by Sam Abell
A bare tree stands on a rocky shoreline in Tasmania, a heart-shaped island 150 miles (241 kilometers) south of the Australian mainland. The forbidding landscape of Tasmania, or “Tassie,” as locals call it, was the site of numerous British penal colonies, beginning in the early 1800s.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Australia’s Best Kept Secret,” Sept./Oct. 1996, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
March 13, 2007
Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1983
Photograph by Emory Kristof
A smear of red in a desert of pale ice, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador trudges through the frozen landscape of the Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The Canadian Coast Guard was part of a mission to explore the sunken wreckage of the H.M.S. Breadalbane, a British ship that went down in the 1850s while on a mission to find survivors of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to map the Northwest Passage.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Exploring a 140-Year-Old Ship Under Arctic Ice,” July 1983, National Geographic magazine)
March 14, 2007
Panama, 1977
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A young margay cat peeks over a step at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute station on Barro Colorado, a forested island in the Panama Canal waterway. The island rises from Lake Gatun, which formed in 1907 when the Chagres River was dammed during construction of the canal.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Panama Canal Today," February 1978, National Geographic magazine)
March 15, 2007
Loango National Park, Gabon, 2003
Photograph by Michael Nichols
In a true play of might makes right, a mature ghost crab threatens a juvenile on the sands of Loango National Park. The park, too, is waging its own battles against poachers, oil companies, and piles of litter. In one day, trash collectors gathered 535 plastic bottles, 560 intact flip-flops, 4 refrigerators, and 2,240 other bits of debris from 1,640 feet (500 meters) of beach.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)
March 16, 2007
Mono Lake, California, 1982
Photograph by James P. Blair
Spires of limestone tufa rise from the shores of California’s Mono Lake. Tufa form when underwater springs rich in calcium meet lake water rich in carbonates, forming calcium carbonate, or limestone. The limestone precipitates in layers over time and can grow more than 30 feet (9 meters) high. Mono Lake’s tufa are particularly dramatic because water diversions have significantly lowered the lake’s level, exposing more of the columns.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic special publication, Our Threatened Inheritance, 1982.)
March 17, 2007
Inishbofin Island, Ireland, 1994
Photograph by Sam Abell
An emerald pasture dotted with daisies and flanked by distant sand dunes rolls to the foot of a rustic gate and a stone wall on the Irish island of Inishbofin. Picturesque scenes like this are plentiful on the windy Aran Islands, but tourism driven by the many bed-and-breakfasts, golf courses, and ferries, is taking a toll on these once-rural landscapes.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)
March 18, 2007
Canberra, Australia, 1974
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson
Pincers poised and eyes gleaming, a bulldog ant surveys its surroundings. These aggressive ants, named for their propensity to latch onto objects, are well known in Australia for their large size and painful sting.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, 揂t Home with the Bulldog Ant,? July 1974, National Geographic magazine)
March 19, 2007
Kathmandu, Nepal, 1979
Photograph by John Scofield
A spotted deer buck attends to a doe in the Central Zoo of Kathmandu, Nepal. Opened in 1932 as a place to house the private animal collection of the current prime minister, the zoo is now run by a non-profit nature conservation trust. It maintains exhibits of some of Nepal’s most well known and endangered fauna, including one-horned Indian rhinos, Bengal tigers, and the clouded leopard.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kathmandu’s Remarkable Newars," February 1979, National Geographic magazine)
March 20, 2007
Rocks Provincial Park, New Brunswick, Canada, 1990
Photograph by James P. Blair
The sculpted silhouettes of Hopewell Rocks rise from the muddy waters of the Bay of Fundy in Canada抯 New Brunswick province. These sandstone-and-conglomerate sea stacks were spared during the glacial sweep of the last ice age, but bear the effects of centuries of tidal erosion. The Bay of Fundy sees some of the world抯 greatest tidal variability, and the constant flow continues to shape these rocks.
加拿大New Brunswick省Fundy Bay 的泥浆水中，Hopewell Rocks雕塑树立其中。这些沙岩与砾岩海中堆积是上一个冰河时期在冰河席卷中遗留下来，但同时保留有几个世纪潮汐侵蚀的影响。Fundy湾具有是世界上最大的潮汐变化性，不断的水流，一直塑造着这些石头。
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic special publication Canada抯 Incredible Coast, 1990)
哈哈哈哈 O(∩_∩)O哈哈~ 好久不来了，不小心看了一眼自己主页，发现自动关联了自己以往发过的帖，点进这个看了一眼，笑个半死。。。敢情我当初还发过这么搞笑的东西啊，我自己完全不记得了 
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，这个网站在建立之初她就告诉我了，只不过俺后来投身网游，只是偶尔过来这边看新闻，却不知慢慢的这里早已是藏龙卧虎了。
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