Gallery
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A satellite image of the Namib Sand Sea by NASA World Wind; the Sand Sea, a major feature of the Namib, covers an area of 34,000 km (21,000 mi) and is bounded on the west by the Atlantic and on the east by the Great Escarpment
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The dune sea of the Namib Desert. The crests of the dunes are aligned in a marked northwest-southeast orientation. The dunes act as obstacles, causing the winds to be deflected significantly to the right, in effect reorienting the southerly wind to become a southwesterly wind.
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Namib Desert seen from Spot satellite
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Namib Desert seen from Spot satellite
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Camel Thorn Tree (Acacia erioloba) in Sossusvlei region
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Sunset at the Namib Rand Nature Reserve, Namibia
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Mud-cracked soil near Sossusvlei
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)