World Maritime Day 🌊⚓️
The Bosphorus in Turkye is the strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, separating two parts of the city of Istanbul.
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Irbe Strait , Estonia, Latvia
Irbe Strait constitutes over 27km from the main exit from the Gulf of Riga to the Baltic Sea, between the Sõrve peninsula in Estonia and the Courland peninsula in Latvia.
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💧Built in 1986, the Zhinvali Reservoir in eastern Georgia is an artificial lake created by a hydroelectric dam supplying electricity to the capital Tbilisi.
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World Humanitarian Day August 19
Opened in 1992 by the UNHCR, Hagadera refugee camp is one of 6 Somali refugee camps in Kenya, near the town of Daabab with half a million inhabitants.
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Quedlinburg is a tourist town in central Germany, founded in the 10th century; the medieval town is surrounded by Germany's largest concentration of organic farmers.
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Losinj Island, Croatia
Over 33km in length but with a width varying from 4.75km to 0.25km, Losinj Island offers spectacular maritime landscapes for European tourists.
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Seiland National Park, Norway
The Seiland National Park in Norway was created in 2006 to protect its isolated lands and the two deep fjords.
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💧The Fierza Reservoir is a reservoir in Albania and Kosovo. The Drin River and parts of the White Drin and Black Drin also runs through the reservoir.
The Albanian side of the lake has many canyons and some small islands.
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World Day to Combat Desertification & Drought, Almeria, Spain.
The Almeria region in Spain is famous for being home to the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares
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In the Australian state of Queensland, the Great Sandy Strait is famous for being home to the world's largest sand island, Fraser Island.
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Known as one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Portugal, the Ria Formosa lagoon is a protected area in the Algarve. It is renowned for its constant changes due to the continuous movement of winds, currents and tides.
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Located on the northern shore of Lago Maggoire, Locarno is the town with the warmest climate in Switzerland, with 2,300 hours of sunshine annually!
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The Corn Belt area traditionally runs through Midwestern United States covering Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, in which corn and soybeans are the dominant crops accounting for 50% of US production. Sentinel-2 👉🏻 https://t.co/RCu2qxqrqu
The Lake District is England’s largest National Park 2,362 km2 and home to the largest lakes and highest mountains in England, including Scafell Pike, which is 978m high.
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Crooked Forest, Poland 🌳
The Crooked Forest is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, Poland.
There is much mystery around why the pine trees are shaped in such a way.
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Earth Day, Krakatoa volcano 🌋
The active volcano is in the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, between Sumatra and Java. The cone on the island in the centre of the archipelago appeared in 1923 and has grown into a dozen explosions at an altitude of 300m today.
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Flowers route, Holland 🌷 No bends or hills but fields of multicolored flowers on the 40 km road between Haarlem and Naaldwijk, the main place of flower bulbs exported to the gardens all over the world.
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Mediterranean Forest Week, 21-25 March 2022
The restoration of Mediterranean Forest and ecosystems is the central topic of the 7th Mediterranean Forests Week.
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March 14, International Day for Actions for Rivers.
Rivers support the world's greatest biodiversity and provide the livelihoods of people but less than 10% of the world's river basins are protected.
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Santorini Archipelago, Greece The 2 main islands are separated by a bay made up of a submerged caldera from a volcanic eruption around -1645 BC and the central island results from an eruption on 1950. Sentinel-1 Data available from https://t.co/RCu2qxqrqu.
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