Images Dated 7th May 2013

Vendor displays souvenirs and trinkets on blanket alongside road, Dades Gorge, Morocco

The Dades Gorges are a series of rugged wadi gorges carved out by the Dades River in Morocco. The river originates in the High Atlas range of the Atlas mountains, flowing some 350 kilometers southwest before joining the Draa River at the edge of the Sahara. The many colored walls of the gorges range anywhere from 200 to 500 meters. The area which now forms the Dades Gorges lay at the bottom of the sea, millions of years ago. Great quantities of sediment were deposited around giant coral reefs, and over time this material became compacted into a variety of sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and limestone. Eventually, the movement of the earths crust caused the region to rise above the sea, forming the Atlas Mountains and surrounding landscape

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Common Tern -Sterna hirundo-, male handing over a bridal gift to a female, breeding colony on a shell bank, Wagejot Nature Reserve, Texel, West Frisian Islands, province of North Holland, Netherlands

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Lord Howe Island, majestic and scenically wonderful, is part of New South Wales, Australia

Lord Howe Island is a sub-tropical destination and scenically superb. The Island is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand and the South Pacific Ocean is just north. It is 600 kilometres directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, and about 900 kilometres from Norfolk Island