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Tempest Theatre for the Aegean Archipelago by Stenou-Triantafyllidis

October 4, 2012

Tempest Theatre for the Aegean Archipelago by Stenou-Triantafyllidis (9)

Students Stenou Aliki and Triantafyllidis Theoklitos from the National Technical University of Athens-School of Architecture, plan to remove the decks and walls from the ‘body’ of an old vessel, and transform it to a flexible floating theater for the Aegean islands.

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Where the weird things are- Socotra, Yemen

May 24, 2012

A desert rose anchors itself on the Maalah cliffs, Yemen

Isolated Socotra, 220 miles from mainland Yemen, is home to a panoply of strange plants and animals uniquely adapted to the hot, harsh, windswept island.   Above: A desert rose anchors itself on the Maalah cliffs, in the company of more than 300 other rare plant species on Socotra. In the distance lies Qulansiyah, one of the island’s largest towns.  Image ©Mark W. Moffet / National Geographic

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Archipelago floating cinema

April 18, 2012

Archipelago floating cinema

Archipelago cinema by Ole Scheeren is a cinema designed to float on the sea, which premiered at the festival in Thailand with the ‘Film on the rocks Yao Noi‘.

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Swirling clouds in Atlantic Ocean

March 6, 2012

Von Karman vortices, South of the Canary Island archipelago

This unique cloud formation from Envisat, created by ‘Von Karman vortices’, South of the Canary Island archipelago, some 95 km from the Northwest coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cocos Islands in Indian Ocean

December 28, 2011

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands lie in the eastern Indian Ocean, about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth. Comprised of coral atolls and islands, the archipelago includes North Keeling Island and the South Keeling Islands. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image of South Keeling Islands on July 31, 2009.

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Blue-domed Church, Santorini

November 6, 2011

Santorini

A church with blue dome in Santorini (Thira) member of the Cyclades group of islands, Aegean sea, Greece.

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Santorini, Aegean Sea

July 14, 2011

Santorini

Santorini, officially Thera, are islands that are the remnants of a volcanic caldera located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from Greece‘s mainland.  Photograph C.T. Feng
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The Arctic Light

June 9, 2011

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A dolphin in Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha

December 1, 2010

A dolphin in Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brasil.  Photographer Joao Vianna