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Chuqui open-pit copper mine, 4km long, 720m d eep, trucks each carrying 300t of ore, Chuquicamata, Calama, Chile, South America

Indian petroglyphs drawn on red standstone by scratching away dark desert varnish of iron oxides, Newspaper Rock, Canyonlands, Utah, United States of America, North America

Submerged causeway at high tide, seen over rooftops of Marazion, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Mheilein beach of white shell-sand, Sound of Scarp, North Harris, Outer Hebrides, Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Folded limestone and shale, Jurassic period, Stair Hole, Lulworth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Sedimentary rocks, blue lias, shale-limestone sequences, Lyme Regis, Jurassic coast, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Ogygiopsis klotzi, fossil, trilobite 50mm long with small fault through it, Cambrian, Burgess Shale, Yoho, Canada, North America

Sedimentary rocks, clay, colour banded by iron oxides, horizontal Triassic Chinle Clay, Blue Mesa, Painted Desert, Arizona, United States of America, North America

Migrating barchan sand dunes across road marked by buried telegraph poles, Kharga basin, Western Desert, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

The world's finest travertine dams, Huanglong (Yellow Dragon), UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern Sichuan, Sichuan, China, Asia

Versuvius Volcano seen from Pompeii, buried in AD79 eruption, Renovated stonework of a building on the edge of the Roman Forum, Pompeii, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Campania, Italy, Europe

River bank land to be flooded, with new housing above reservoir level, Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze, China, Asia

Ice sculptures in Taiyangdao Park at night, Ice Lantern Festival, Bingdeng Jie, Harbin city, Heilongjiang, China, Asia

Totem pole of Shaman and land otter, carved in red cedar in 1940 by John Wanlace, Inside Passage, Juneau, Alaska, United States of America, North America

Bottle-tree (desert rose) (adenium obesum) endemic to island, Diksam Plateau, central Socotra Island, Yemen, Middle East

Bottle-tree (desert rose) (adenium obesum) endemic to island, Diksam Plateau, central Socotra Island, Yemen, Middle East

Traditional ornamented brick architecture on tall houses, Old City, within Sana'a, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yemen, Middle East

Traditional ornamented brick architecture on houses, Old City, Sana'a, UNESCO World Heritage Site, capital of Yemen, Middle East

Children sieving and washing small gems from mine waste, Mogok ruby mines, near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Machine digging gem-bearing clay in large open pit mine, Mogok ruby mines, Mandalay District, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Child labour, young girl moulding lumps of clay at brickworks on Mandalay Plains, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Maggots for fishing bait, bred on maggot farm, dyed yellow by dye added to offal feed, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Closely spaced drilling towers and nodding donkey beam pumps, Ramana oilfield, Absheron peninsula, Baku, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Asia

Columnar basalt lava with Fingal's Cave cut into it by sea, Staffa, off west coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Kapok tree, with seed pods opening as they ripen, Bicol, southern Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Huliba limestone caves, Arikok National Park, Aruba (Dutch Antilles), West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Caribbean Carnival, March 2011, San Nicolas, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Hato Caves, limestone caves open to visitors on the north coast of Curacao (Dutch Antilles), West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Devil's Marbles, the result of spheroidal weathering of strong granite beneath an ancient soil, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia, Pacific

Caribbean Carnival, March 2011, San Nicolas, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Archway Cave, segment of very large lava cave, Undara Lava Tubes National Park, Queensland, Australia, Pacific

Cable car and passengers on Nob Hill along California Street, with west span of the Bay Bridge in background, San Francisco, California, United States of America, North America

Narrow street and 2-layer houses, Colaba fishing village, southern end of Mumbai city, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Sunset over Westminster Bridge, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, UNESCO World Heritage Site, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Snow falling on small red pagoda, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Hot-air balloon in the sky above the castle, Amboise, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Indre-et-Loire, Loire Valley, France, Europe

Isolated chalk towers, remnants of karst, Farafra Oasis, White Desert, Western Desert, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

A pine tree's roots exposed as top soil is washed away by storms, Bryce Canyon, Utah, United States of America, North America

Fall colours in taiga, spruce, willow, dwarf birch and aspen, Susitna Valley, Alaska Range, Alaska, United States of America, North America

Farmer going home near Tingri, Cho Oyu and Himalayas in distance, Tibetan Plateau, Tibet, China, Asia

Cruise ship at Gudvangen, Naeroyfjorden, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Western Fiordlands, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Aguas Calientes, tourist town below Inca ruins, built round railway, Machu Picchu, Peru, South America

Ice sculptures lit at night, Ice Lantern Festival, Bingdeng Jie, Harbin city, Heilongjiang, China, Asia

Some of the animals in the Palaeolithic artwork on the roof of the Zoo Cave, Bhimbetka Caves, a large group of rock shelters in quartzitic sandstone in the hills above Obaidullaganj, south of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh state, India, Asia

Glacier flowing from the Juneau Icefield to the proglacial lake, Alaska, United States of America, North America

The Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wyoming, United States of America, North America

Landscape including Chiu Gompa beside Lake Manasarovar on the Barga plain with Mount Kailas (Mount Kailash), sacred to Buddhists and Hindus behind, in Tibet, China, Asia

Traditional Uros (Urus) reed boat, Islas Flotantas, reed islands, Lake Titicaca, Peru, South America

Canyon cut by meltwater stream, before sinking into moulin beside hikers, on icecap above Disko Bay on the west coast, Greenland, Polar Regions

Deforestation for farmland, cleared by slash and burn, Mogok Hills, Mandalay District, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Cutting through chalk hill for the construction of a new section of the M3 Motorway, Twyford Down, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Ox carts haul stacked cane from fields for transfer to refinery, at a sugar plantation on the north coast plain of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Narrow street and 2-layer houses, Colaba fishing village, southern end of Mumbai city, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Overlooking Copacabana Beach from Sugarloaf (Sugar Loaf) Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Mosaics cover the walls beneath the Ascension Dome, Basilica San Marco, Venice, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Sof Omar cave, downstream maze, daylight in through multiple entrances, Southern Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa