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  • Pioneer-era mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • Pioneer-era mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • Refugio Chileno offers horse transportation, and supplies tents fully equipped with pads and sleeping bags. From Refugio Chileno, we hiked to Mirador Base Las Torres (9.5 km or 5.9 miles round trip with 600 m or 1980 ft gain) to view the namesake towers of Torres del Paine National Park, in Ultima Esperanza Province, Chile, Patagonia, South America. The salmon dinner & dessert served at Refugio Chileno was our tastiest meal along the W Route! UNESCO honors the Park as a World Biosphere Reserve.
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  • Pioneer-era mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • Pioneer-era mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • Pioneer-era mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • Pioneer-era mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • A mototaxi (three-wheeled auto rickshaw) provides cheap public transportation in Huaraz, in the Santa Valley (Callejon de Huaylas), Ancash Region, Peru, South America.
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  • Borax Smith's 1885 buckboard (four-wheeled wagon) was used on trips from Mojave to Death Valley via Wingate Pass. See historical mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • The tuk-tuk is the Southeast Asian version of a vehicle known elsewhere as an auto rickshaw or cabin cycle. The tuk-tuk is widely used as urban transport here in Bangkok (and other Thai cities, as well as other major Southeast Asian and South Asian cities). In the background is Wat Pho (or Po), the oldest and largest wat (Buddhist temple or monastery) in Bangkok, with the longest reclining Buddha and the largest collection of Buddha images in Thailand. Wat Pho is located outside the south wall of the Grand Palace.
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  • Bluebridge Ferry transports cars & people through Tory Channel, South Island, New Zealand
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  • A mototaxi (three-wheeled auto rickshaw) provides cheap public transportation in Huaraz, in the Andes Mountains, Ancash Region, Peru, South America.
    14PER-0056_mototaxi_Huaraz-Peru.jpg
  • Remodelled local farm wagon. See historical mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • The 1894 "Old Dinah" steam tractor and ore wagons replaced the 20 mule teams at Old Borate (but were in turn replaced by the Borate and Daggett Railroad). See historical mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • The 1894 "Old Dinah" steam tractor and ore wagons replaced the 20 mule teams at Old Borate (but were in turn replaced by the Borate and Daggett Railroad). See historical mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • 20 Mule Team Wagon Train (1885) used in hauling 24 tons of borax from Death Valley to Mojave, 165 miles in 10 days. See historical mining and transportation equipment at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. The oldest house in Death Valley was built in 1883 by F.M. "Borax" Smith in Twenty Mule Team Canyon, then moved here by his Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1954 to serve as a museum.
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  • A mototaxi (three-wheeled auto rickshaw) provides cheap public transportation in the Santa Valley (Callejon de Huaylas), Huaraz, Ancash Region, Andes Mountains, Peru, South America.
    14PER-2503_mototaxi_Huaraz-Peru.jpg
  • A mototaxi (three-wheeled auto rickshaw) provides cheap public transportation in Huaraz, in the Andes Mountains, Ancash Region, Peru, South America.
    14PER-0071_mototaxi_Huaraz-Peru.jpg
  • Mototaxis (three-wheeled auto rickshaws) provide cheap public transportation in Huaraz, in the Andes Mountains, Ancash Region, Peru, South America.
    14PER-0072_mototaxi_Huaraz-Peru.jpg
  • The Historic Red Bus of Glacier National Park (in Montana, USA) was built on 1930s chassis by the White Motor Company, then rebuilt in 2001 to run on propane. A fleet of these vintage motor coaches provide tours and shuttle services in the park. I highly recommend using public transportation, as park traffic can be very heavy over Going to the Sun Road. A "Jammer" (driver) drives the "Red" (bus). Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Published by National Geographic Children's Books 2011: "Ultimate Weird But True."
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  • Bluebridge Ferry transports cars & people through Queen Charlotte Sound, South Island, New Zealand
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  • Eurostar locomotive. The popular National Railway Museum (NRM) tells the story of rail transport in Britain and houses historically significant artifacts, rolling stock, and over 100 locomotives. Visit it in York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe. In the 1800s, York became a hub of the British railway network.
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  • Train valves and meters. The popular National Railway Museum (NRM) tells the story of rail transport in Britain and houses historically significant artifacts, rolling stock, and over 100 locomotives. Visit it in York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe. In the 1800s, York became a hub of the British railway network.
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  • The Ticonderoga (built in 1906, 220 feet long) is America's last remaining side paddlewheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine, and is a National Historic Landmark. The steamship Ticonderoga transported passengers and goods up and down Lake Champlain for many years, then in 1955 was moved two miles overland on special tracks to the Shelburne Museum. The Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, unconventional museums of American folk art. Visit this extensive museum in the town of Shelburne, near Lake Champlain, in Vermont, USA. Electra Havemeyer Webb, an avid collector of American folk art, founded the Museum in 1947.
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  • Electric locomotive and muck truck used to build the Channel Tunnel. The spoil deposited at Shakespeare Cliff near Dover increased the size of the UK by 90 acres. Opened in 1994, the Channel Tunnel runs 31.4 miles beneath the English Channel connecting the UK to France. The popular National Railway Museum (NRM) tells the story of rail transport in Britain and houses historically significant artifacts, rolling stock, and over 100 locomotives. Visit it in York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe. In the 1800s, York became a hub of the British railway network.
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  • On October 8, 2019, the Galloping Goose No. 4 parked next to the San Miguel County Courthouse in Telluride is moved onto a truck for transport to a new home at the Ridgway Railroad Museum, in Colorado, USA. Seven Galloping "Geese" were built in the 1930s to cart U.S. Mail, passengers and freight along the Rio Grande Southern Railroad throughout southwestern Colorado, from Ridgway to Telluride, Rico, Dolores and Durango. All seven have been restored to their former glory. Telluride’s No. 4 was restored over a four-year process in Ridgway in cooperation between the railway museum and the Telluride Volunteer Fire Department.
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  • The popular National Railway Museum (NRM) tells the story of rail transport in Britain and houses historically significant artifacts, rolling stock, and over 100 locomotives. Visit it in York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe. In the 1800s, York became a hub of the British railway network.
    17UK2-1884_England.jpg
  • On October 8, 2019, the Galloping Goose No. 4 parked next to the San Miguel County Courthouse in Telluride is moved onto a truck for transport to a new home at the Ridgway Railroad Museum, in Colorado, USA. Seven Galloping "Geese" were built in the 1930s to cart U.S. Mail, passengers and freight along the Rio Grande Southern Railroad throughout southwestern Colorado, from Ridgway to Telluride, Rico, Dolores and Durango. All seven have been restored to their former glory. Telluride’s No. 4 was restored over a four-year process in Ridgway in cooperation between the railway museum and the Telluride Volunteer Fire Department.
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  • The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Small Boiler Class C1 steam locomotive was the first 4-4-2 or Atlantic type in Great Britain. They were designed by Henry Ivatt in 1897. In total 22 were built between 1898 and 1903 at Doncaster Works. The class were commonly known as "Klondykes," after the 1897 Klondike gold rush. Only the very first one remains: No.990 Henry Oakley at the National Railway Museum, York. The popular National Railway Museum (NRM) tells the story of rail transport in Britain and houses historically significant artifacts, rolling stock, and over 100 locomotives. Visit it in York, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
    17UK2-1874_England.jpg
  • The Ticonderoga (built in 1906, 220 feet long) is America's last remaining side paddlewheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine, and is a National Historic Landmark. The steamship Ticonderoga transported passengers and goods up and down Lake Champlain for many years, then in 1955 was moved two miles overland on special tracks to the Shelburne Museum. The Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, unconventional museums of American folk art. Visit this extensive museum in the town of Shelburne, near Lake Champlain, in Vermont, USA. Electra Havemeyer Webb, an avid collector of American folk art, founded the Museum in 1947.
    1410VT-186_Shelburne-Museum.jpg
  • The Ticonderoga (built in 1906, 220 feet long) is America's last remaining side paddlewheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine, and is a National Historic Landmark. The steamship Ticonderoga transported passengers and goods up and down Lake Champlain for many years, then in 1955 was moved two miles overland on special tracks to the Shelburne Museum. The Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, unconventional museums of American folk art. Visit this extensive museum in the town of Shelburne, near Lake Champlain, in Vermont, USA. Electra Havemeyer Webb, an avid collector of American folk art, founded the Museum in 1947.
    1410VT-179_Shelburne-Museum.jpg
  • Preserved historic 1922-1951 sternwheel paddle steamer, SS Keno National Historic Site of Canada, at dry dock along the Yukon River in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The vessel was built in 1922 in Whitehorse by the British Yukon Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway company. It mostly transported silver, zinc and lead ore down the Stewart River from mines in the Mayo district to the confluence of the Yukon and Stewart rivers at Stewart City. It was retired from commercial service in 1951 due to the extension and improvement of the Klondike Highway in the years after World War II. About 250 sternwheelers served the Yukon River and its tributaries. Dawson City was the center of the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99), after which population rapidly declined. Dawson City shrank further during World War II after the Alaska Highway bypassed it 300 miles (480 km) to the south using Whitehorse as a hub. In 1953, Whitehorse replaced Dawson City as Yukon Territory's capital. Dawson City's population dropped to 600–900 through the 1960s-1970s, but later increased as high gold prices made modern placer mining operations profitable and tourism was promoted. In Yukon, the Klondike Highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2 to Dawson City. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
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  • Preserved historic 1922-1951 sternwheel paddle steamer, SS Keno National Historic Site of Canada, at dry dock along the Yukon River in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The vessel was built in 1922 in Whitehorse by the British Yukon Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway company. It mostly transported silver, zinc and lead ore down the Stewart River from mines in the Mayo district to the confluence of the Yukon and Stewart rivers at Stewart City. It was retired from commercial service in 1951 due to the extension and improvement of the Klondike Highway in the years after World War II. About 250 sternwheelers served the Yukon River and its tributaries. Dawson City was the center of the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99), after which population rapidly declined. Dawson City shrank further during World War II after the Alaska Highway bypassed it 300 miles (480 km) to the south using Whitehorse as a hub. In 1953, Whitehorse replaced Dawson City as Yukon Territory's capital. Dawson City's population dropped to 600–900 through the 1960s-1970s, but later increased as high gold prices made modern placer mining operations profitable and tourism was promoted. In Yukon, the Klondike Highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2 to Dawson City.
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  • Preserved historic 1922-1951 sternwheel paddle steamer, SS Keno National Historic Site of Canada, at dry dock along the Yukon River in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The vessel was built in 1922 in Whitehorse by the British Yukon Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway company. It mostly transported silver, zinc and lead ore down the Stewart River from mines in the Mayo district to the confluence of the Yukon and Stewart rivers at Stewart City. It was retired from commercial service in 1951 due to the extension and improvement of the Klondike Highway in the years after World War II. About 250 sternwheelers served the Yukon River and its tributaries. Dawson City was the center of the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99), after which population rapidly declined. Dawson City shrank further during World War II after the Alaska Highway bypassed it 300 miles (480 km) to the south using Whitehorse as a hub. In 1953, Whitehorse replaced Dawson City as Yukon Territory's capital. Dawson City's population dropped to 600–900 through the 1960s-1970s, but later increased as high gold prices made modern placer mining operations profitable and tourism was promoted. In Yukon, the Klondike Highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2 to Dawson City.
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  • Admire the San Juan Mountains and yellow fall foliage colors from Telluride's FREE Gondola in Colorado, USA. Opened in November 1996, the Telluride/Mountain Village Gondola covers 3 miles in 13 minutes, and saves 8 miles of driving.
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  • A loaded yak (yak-cow hybrid) passes a horse, on a stone road in Nepal
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  • In our trusty rental VW Suran (Highline), we drive east towards Argentina on dusty Ruta 231 near Futaleufu, in Palena Province, Chile, Andes mountains, Patagonia, South America. The frontier town Futaleufu hosts forestry, cattle farming, and adventure tourism including whitewater rafting, fishing, mountain biking, trekking, and canyoneering. Located 7 miles from the Argentinian border, Futaleufu (population 2,000) is most easily accessed from airports in Esquel and Bariloche, Argentina. The town is named after the crystal blue Futaleufú River, considered one of the best whitewater rafting rivers in the world. The name Futaleufu derives from a Mapudungun word meaning "Big River". A gravel road links the town to Trevelin in Argentina and to the Carretera Austral. Following the eruption of Chaitén Volcano and the subsequent destruction of Chaitén, Futaleufú has been the administrative capital of Palena Province since March 2009.
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  • Old rusting truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • On the Blue Ridge Parkway, view brilliant fall colors in mid October, in North Carolina, USA. This photo is at Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 455 in the Plott Balsam Range, within the Qualla Boundary between Soco Creek and Soco Gap. The Qualla Boundary is a land trust supervised by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs for the Tribe of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who reside on the adjacent Reservation in western North Carolina. The 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway was built 1935-1987 to aesthetically connect Shenandoah National Park (in Virginia) with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. (The Smokies are a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains.)
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  • The Needles District of Canyonlands National Park is seen from a campsite at Needles Outpost Campground just outside the park, in Utah, USA. The Permian rocks of the Needles District formed where red alluvial fans from the east interwove with white dunes from the west, making spires striped red and white. This panorama was stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • The car from the film High Sierra (1941) is a 1937 Plymouth Coupe (loaned from the James E Rogers Collection), displayed at the Museum of Western Film History, 701 S. Main Street, Lone Pine, California, 93545, USA. In the climactic movie sequence, "Mad Dog" Earle, played by Humphrey Bogart, flees from police by accelerating the Plymouth Coupe up scenic Whitney Portal Road. Web site: www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org
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  • Rusting V8 truck with flat tire in Benton Hot Springs, Mono County, California, USA. Benton Hot Springs (elevation 5630 feet) saw its heyday from 1862 to 1889 as a supply center for nearby mines. At the end of the 1800s, the town declined and the name Benton was transferred to nearby Benton Station.
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  • Fog enshrouds peaks over Snaring River Overflow Campground, Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada. Jasper is the largest national park in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, honored by UNESCO in 1984.
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  • Highway 93 cuts narrowly through Sinclair Canyon. Radium Hot Springs, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hike to Rim Overlook, in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA. (Along the way, don't miss the side trip to majestic Hickman Natural Bridge.) Capitol Reef National Park is centered upon the 100-mile-long Waterpocket Fold, the steep eastern limb of the Circle Cliffs Uplift, formed in Late Cretaceous time, during the Laramide Orogeny. Pressure caused by the subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath the North American Plate along the west coast caused several huge folds like this in southeast Utah, USA. Steeply tilted Triassic and Jurassic rocks form the hogbacks of the Waterpocket Fold and Capitol Reef, which is built of dark-red dune-formed Wingate Sandstone, thinly bedded river deposits of the Kayenta Formation, crested by the massive, white, dune-formed Navajo Sandstone. This panorama was stitched from 13 overlapping photos.
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  • "Hein's Trein" is the nickname for the locomotive used to lift heavy dishes of the Very Large Array (VLA) radio astronomy telescope, near Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories. Visit the VLA on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, in New Mexico. US Route 60 passes through the scientific complex, which welcomes visitors. The VLA is a set of 27 movable radio antennas on tracks in a Y-shape. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter. After being built 1973-1980, the VLA’s electronics and software were significantly upgraded from 2001-2012 by at least an order of magnitude in both sensitivity and radio-frequency coverage. The VLA is a component of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about interstellar radio emission. The VLA was prominently featured in the 1997 film "Contact," a classic science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel, with Jodie Foster portraying the film's protagonist, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds strong evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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  • Old horse-drawn ranch wagon, James Cant Ranch Historic District, Sheep Rock Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. The double steel tires on the rear wheels show it was intended for hard use. The Cant Ranch interpretive site shows visitors an early 1900s livestock ranch. James Cant owned the ranch from 1910 to 1975, after which he sold to the National Park Service.
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  • Old rusting truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Construction on Haines Highway, Alaska, USA
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  • An old jalopy decays outdoors. Big Delta State Historical Park: Rika's Roadhouse served travelers on the historic Valdez-to-Fairbanks Trail from 1913 to 1947, at a historically important crossing of the Tanana River. Find it off mile 274.5 of the Richardson Highway in Big Delta, in the Southeast Fairbanks Area, Alaska, USA. Jovo 'John' Hajdukovich, an immigrant from Montenegro, had the north-south section of this log structure built in 1913. Starting in 1917, Swedish immigrant Rika Wallen operated this regional hub serving gold stampeders, local hunters, traders, and freighters; and she bought the roadhouse in 1923. With the construction of the ALCAN (now Alaska) Highway and the replacement of the ferry with a bridge downstream, traffic moved away and patronage declined.
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  • 1927 Dodge Graham blue truck at antique gas station in Bodie, California's official state gold rush ghost town. Bodie State Historic Park lies in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, near Bridgeport, California, USA. After W. S. Bodey's original gold discovery in 1859, profitable gold ore discoveries in 1876 and 1878 transformed "Bodie" from an isolated mining camp to a Wild West boomtown. By 1879, Bodie had a population of 5000-7000 people with 2000 buildings. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Bodie declined rapidly 1912-1917 and the last mine closed in 1942. Bodie became a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and Bodie State Historic Park in 1962.
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  • Orange rays of sunset brighten clouds over Peterborough, Victoria, Australia. Apollo campervan.
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  • On the Blue Ridge Parkway, view brilliant fall colors in mid October, in North Carolina, USA. This photo is at Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 455 in the Plott Balsam Range, within the Qualla Boundary between Soco Creek and Soco Gap. The Qualla Boundary is a land trust supervised by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs for the Tribe of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who reside on the adjacent Reservation in western North Carolina. The 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway was built 1935-1987 to aesthetically connect Shenandoah National Park (in Virginia) with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. The Smokies are a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains.
    1510SE-1544_Blue-Ridge-Parkway_NC.jpg
  • Behind glass reflecting Bodie ghost town is a dress form in Boone Store and Warehouse (built 1879). This building was owned by Harvey Boone (a direct descendent of Daniel Boone), who may have owned a business longer than anyone else in town. Bodie is California's official state gold rush ghost town. Bodie State Historic Park lies in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, near Bridgeport, California, USA. After W. S. Bodey's original gold discovery in 1859, profitable gold ore discoveries in 1876 and 1878 transformed "Bodie" from an isolated mining camp to a Wild West boomtown. By 1879, Bodie had a population of 5000-7000 people with 2000 buildings. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Bodie declined rapidly 1912-1917 and the last mine closed in 1942. Bodie became a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and Bodie State Historic Park in 1962.
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  • A model fire engine, firemen, and burnt house are part of a large train diorama at Mom & Pop RV Park, Farmington, New Mexico, USA. Its sign reads "Fine German Dining & Hotel."
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  • Old rusting Flex-Track truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Old rusting blue car at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Rafting through Marble Canyon on day 2 of 16 days boating 226 miles down the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA. Marble Canyon runs from Lees Ferry at River Mile 0 to the confluence with the Little Colorado River at Mile 62, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon. Although John Wesley Powell knew that no marble was found here when he named Marble Canyon, he thought the polished limestone looked like marble. In his words, "The limestone of the canyon is often polished, and makes a beautiful marble. Sometimes the rocks are of many colors – white, gray, pink, and purple, with saffron tints."
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  • Take out rafts at Diamond Creek at Colorado River Mile 225.9 on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, on the last of 16 days rafting 226 miles down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA. For this photo’s licensing options, please inquire at PhotoSeek.com. .
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  • New and old bridges cross Rio Paine under the namesake towers of Torres del Paine National Park, near Laguna Amarga Entrance and Range Station, in Ultima Esperanza Province, Chile, Patagonia, South America. The Park is listed as a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.
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  • The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a National Historic Landmark, links Durango to Silverton, in Colorado, USA. Silverton is a former silver mining camp, now the federally-designated Silverton Historic District. Silverton no longer has active mining, but subsists on tourism, maintenance of US 550 (which links Montrose with Durango), mine pollution remediation, and retirees.
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  • An old street car advertises Wyman Hotel & Inn in Silverton, Colorado, USA. Silverton is a former silver mining camp, now the federally-designated Silverton Historic District. Durango is linked to Silverton by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a National Historic Landmark. Silverton no longer has active mining, but subsists on tourism, maintenance of US 550 (which links Montrose with Durango), mine pollution remediation, and retirees.
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  • Carhenge Sunset. Carhenge replicates England's Stonehenge using vintage American automobiles, near Alliance, Nebraska, in the High Plains region, USA. After studying Stonehenge in England, years later, Jim Reinders recreated the physical size and placement of Stonehenge's standing stones in summer 1987, helped by 35 family members. Reinders said, "It took a lot of blood, sweat, and beers." Carhenge was built as a memorial to Reinders' father. 39 automobiles were arranged in the same proportions as Stonehenge with the circle measuring a slightly smaller 96 feet (29m) in diameter. Some autos are held upright in pits five feet deep, trunk end down, while other cars are placed to form the arches and welded in place. All are covered with gray spray paint. The heel stone is a 1962 Cadillac. Reinders donated Carhenge to the Friends of Carhenge, who gifted it to the Citizens of Alliance in 2013. Additional sculptures have been erected in the Car Art Reserve, where Reinders' "Ford Seasons" is comprised of four Fords, inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Also, 29-year-old Canadian Geoff Sandhurst sculpted a spawning salmon.
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  • Aerial view of McBride Glacier & Muir Inlet, East Arm of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA. Flightseeing from Skagway or Haines is a spectacular way to see Glacier Bay. We were bedazzled by Mountain Flying Service's 1.3-hour West Arm tour from Skagway. Glacier Bay is honored by UNESCO as part of a huge Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage site shared between Canada and the United States. In 1750-80, Glacier Bay was totally covered by ice, which has since radically melted away. In 1794, Captain George Vancover found Icy Strait on the Gulf of Alaska choked with ice, and all but a 3-mile indentation of Glacier Bay was filled by a huge tongue of the Grand Pacific Glacier, 4000 feet deep and 20 miles wide. By 1879, naturalist John Muir reported that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. In 1890, "Glacier Bay" was named by Captain Beardslee of the U.S. Navy. Over the last 200 years, melting glaciers have exposed 65 miles of ocean. As of 2019, glaciers cover only 27% of the Park area. Since the mid 1900s, Alaska has warmed 3 degrees Fahrenheit and its winters have warmed nearly 6 degrees. Human-caused climate change induced by emissions of greenhouse gases continues to accelerate warming at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is having disproportionate effects in the Arctic, which is heating up twice as fast as the rest of Earth. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
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  • Built from 1998-2001, the Klondike Spirit paddlewheeler has offered narrated cruises on the Yukon River since 2007 from Dawson City (www.klondikespirit.com), in Yukon, Canada. In Yukon, the free George Black Ferry (at right in background of photo) connects Dawson City to West Dawson and the Top of the World Highway, which goes to the Yukon-Alaska border. It is a drive-on/drive-off single deck ferry, operating 24 hours per day in summer. The remote 65-mile Top of the World Highway connects the Klondike Loop from Dawson City with the Taylor Highway (which links Chicken, Eagle and the Alaska Highway). Dawson City was the center of the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99), after which population rapidly declined. Dawson City shrank further during World War II after the Alaska Highway bypassed it 300 miles (480 km) to the south using Whitehorse as a hub. In 1953, Whitehorse replaced Dawson City as Yukon Territory's capital. Dawson City's population dropped to 600–900 through the 1960s-1970s, but later increased as high gold prices made modern placer mining operations profitable and tourism was promoted. In Yukon, the Klondike Highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2 to Dawson City.
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  • See Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, and The Remarkables from Bob's Peak, reached via Skyline Queenstown gondola or a hiking trail. Queenstown, Otago region, South Island of New Zealand.
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  • Children play inside Waterwalkerz, human hamster balls under the Falkirk Wheel, in central Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe. Built in 2002, the Falkirk Wheel reconnects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal for the first time since the 1930s.
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  • 1869 Haverthwaite railway station on the preserved Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway. England Coast to Coast hike with Wilderness Travel, day 1 of 14: Starting with dipping our boots in the Irish Sea at Ravenglass in Lake District National Park, we ascended Muncaster Fell, seeing the ruins of a Roman bathhouse along the way. We then passed Muncaster Castle  and descended into Miterdale. Overnight in Irton Hall, Eskdale, Holmrook, Cumbria county, England, United Kingdom, Europe. Irton Hall is a large, mostly 1800s house with a 1300s tower.  [This image, commissioned by Wilderness Travel, is not available to any other agency providing group travel in the UK, but may otherwise be licensable from Tom Dempsey – please inquire at PhotoSeek.com.]
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  • A tug escorts a cargo ship through Nawiliwili Bay. Lihue, island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
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  • Playfully, Switzerland advertises the Glacier Express as "the slowest express train in the world." Opened in 1930, this narrow gauge railway connects the mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps, from the Matterhorn to Piz Bernina, frequently applying a rack-and-pinion system to go up and down steep grades. An especially curlycue portion of the Glacier Express route is honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the "Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes". Jointly operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) and Rhaetian Railway (RhB), the 7.5 hour railway journey crosses 291 bridges, enters 91 tunnels and reaches 2033 m (6670 ft) elevation at Oberalp Pass.
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  • In Zermatt, Switzerland, the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB) takes you to a spectacular ridge (at 3135 m or 10,285 ft) between Gornergletscher and Findelgletscher, with views of 20+ four-thousand meter peaks, whose highest are Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa massif), Liskamm, Matterhorn, Dom and Weisshorn. Gornergrat train, opened in 1898, climbs almost 1500 m or 4900 ft via Riffelalp and Riffelberg in the Pennine Alps, Europe.
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  • In Zermatt, Switzerland, the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB) takes you to a spectacular ridge (at 3135 m or 10,285 ft) between Gornergletscher and Findelgletscher, with views of 20+ four-thousand meter peaks, whose highest are Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa massif), Liskamm, Matterhorn, Dom and Weisshorn. Gornergrat train, opened in 1898, climbs almost 1500 m or 4900 ft via Riffelalp and Riffelberg in the Pennine Alps, Europe.
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  • The 148-foot wooden Cataract Falls Covered Bridge was built in 1876 at the Upper Falls of Mill Creek (formerly known as Eel River) and was open to automobile traffic until 1988. The bridge now serves pedestrians and was extensively repaired starting in 2000. It is the only remaining covered bridge in Owen County. Cataract Falls State Recreation Area is an hour southwest of Indianapolis, near Cloverdale, Indiana, USA. The bridge was designed with a Smith's High Double Wood Truss (Smith Type 4), prefabricated in Toledo, Ohio and shipped disassembled for reassembly. Nice autumn foliage colors glowed for this photo in mid October 2015.
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  • From Inspiration Point, see Middle and Upper Genesee Falls amid the splendor of autumn leaf colors, at Letchworth State Park, near Portageville, New York, USA. In Letchworth State Park, renowned as the "Grand Canyon of the East," the Genesee River roars northeast through a gorge over three major waterfalls between cliffs as high as 550 feet, surrounded by diverse forests which turn bright fall colors in the last three weeks of October. The large park stretches 17 miles between Portageville and Mount Morris in the state of New York, USA. Drive or hike to many scenic viewpoints along the west side of the gorge. The best walk is along Gorge Trail #1 above Portage Canyon from Lower Genesee Falls (70 ft high), to Inspiration Point, to Middle Genesee Falls (tallest, 107 ft), to Upper Genesee Falls (70 ft high). High above Upper Falls is the railroad trestle of Portageville Bridge, built in 1875, to be replaced 2015-2016. Geologic history: in the Devonian Period (360 to 420 million years ago), sediments from the ancestral Appalachian mountains eroded into an ancient inland sea and became the bedrock (mostly shales with some layers of limestone and sandstone plus marine fossils) now exposed in the gorge. Genesee River Gorge is very young, as it was cut after the last continental glacier diverted the river only 10,000 years ago. The native Seneca people were largely forced out after the American Revolutionary War, as they had been allies of the defeated British. Letchworth's huge campground has 270 generously-spaced electric sites.
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  • From Inspiration Point, see Middle and Upper Genesee Falls amid the splendor of autumn leaf colors, at Letchworth State Park, near Portageville, New York, USA. In Letchworth State Park, renowned as the "Grand Canyon of the East," the Genesee River roars northeast through a gorge over three major waterfalls between cliffs as high as 550 feet, surrounded by diverse forests which turn bright fall colors in the last three weeks of October. The large park stretches 17 miles between Portageville and Mount Morris in the state of New York, USA. Drive or hike to many scenic viewpoints along the west side of the gorge. The best walk is along Gorge Trail #1 above Portage Canyon from Lower Genesee Falls (70 ft high), to Inspiration Point, to Middle Genesee Falls (tallest, 107 ft), to Upper Genesee Falls (70 ft high). High above Upper Falls is the railroad trestle of Portageville Bridge, built in 1875, to be replaced 2015-2016. Geologic history: in the Devonian Period (360 to 420 million years ago), sediments from the ancestral Appalachian mountains eroded into an ancient inland sea and became the bedrock (mostly shales with some layers of limestone and sandstone plus marine fossils) now exposed in the gorge. Genesee River Gorge is very young, as it was cut after the last continental glacier diverted the river only 10,000 years ago. The native Seneca people were largely forced out after the American Revolutionary War, as they had been allies of the defeated British. Letchworth's huge campground has 270 generously-spaced electric sites.
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  • Hornblower Niagara Cruise boat, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The town of Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, gives excellent views of all three sections of Niagara Falls, which drops 167 feet (51 m). Niagara Falls has the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world. Niagara Falls is the name for the combined flow of Horseshoe Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, on the Niagara River along the international border between Ontario, Canada and New York, USA. The Niagara River drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by vertical height combined with flow rate. The falls are 17 miles north-northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75 miles south-southeast of Toronto.
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  • Upward ho! Carol departs Huayllapa village riding on a horse. Day 7 of 9 days trekking around the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Andes Mountains, Peru, South America.
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  • Flying from Ezeiza (Ministro Pistarini International Airport, code EZE), see an aerial view of Retiro barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Retiro Station (Estación Retiro) is a large railway terminus opposite of Plaza San Martín in the Buenos Aires central business district.
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  • The Martial Mountains rise above a ship in the Beagle Channel at the Port of Ushuaia, capital city of Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America. As the port closest to Antarctica (which is located 400 miles across the Drake Passage), Ushuaia hosts most of the cruise ships that visit the southernmost continent. Argentina claims Ushuaia is the "southernmost city in the world" (although the smaller Chilean town of Puerto Williams lies further south).
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  • A replica of Shackleton's famous lifeboat James Caird is in transit at the Port of Ushuaia, capital city of Tierra del Fuego Province, in Argentina, South America. The voyage of the James Caird, one of history's greatest small-boat journeys, was by open whaleboat from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, a distance of 800 nautical miles (1500 km; 920 mi) across one of the world' s most treacherous seas. Undertaken by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, its objective was to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17, trapped on Elephant Island after the loss of their ship Endurance. On the temporary haven of Elephant Island, the expedition's carpenter, Harry McNish, improvised tools and materials to adapt the 22.5-foot (6.9 m) long James Caird, raising its sides and building a makeshift deck of wood and canvas, sealing the work with oil paints, lamp wick, and seal blood. The craft was further strengthened with a mast lashed inside along the length of her keel, and fitted with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, rigged to carry lugsails and a jib. Boat weight was increased by 1 long ton (1016 kg) of ballast, to lessen the risk of capsizing in the high seas that Shackleton knew would be encountered.
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  • In sunny weather, Carol Dempsey views sea ice in the Southern Ocean offshore from Graham Land, the north part of the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctica. For licensing options, please inquire.
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  • A Zodiac boat explores a blue iceberg arch melting in Neko Harbor (an inlet of the Southern Ocean), at Graham Land, the north portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. Scientists have measured temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula as warming faster than anywhere else on  earth. An overwhelming consensus of world scientists agree that global warming is indeed happening and humans are contributing to it through emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide (see www.ucsusa.org). Since the industrial revolution began, humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by 35% (through burning of fossil fuels, deforesting land, and grazing livestock). Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. Published in Wilderness Travel Catalog of Adventures 2009, 2011.
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  • April 21, 2009: La Cumbre volcano erupts lava into the Pacific Ocean creating steam clouds and expanding Fernandina (Narborough) Island, in the Galápagos Islands, a province of Ecuador, South America. This eruption cycle started April 10, 2009 after 5 years of quiet. Fernandina Island was named in honor of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who sponsored the voyage of Columbus. Fernandina is the youngest and westernmost island of the Galápagos archipelago, and has a maximum altitude of 1,494 metres (4,902 feet). Tourists are allowed to visit Punta Espinosa, a narrow stretch of land where hundreds of Marine Iguanas gather largely on black lava rocks. The Flightless Cormorant, Galápagos Penguins, Pelicans and Sea Lions are abundant on this island of lava flows and Mangrove Forests. The volcanic Galápagos Islands (officially Archipiélago de Colón, otherwise called Islas de Colón, Islas Galápagos, or Enchanted Islands) are distributed along the equator in the Pacific Ocean 972 km west of continental Ecuador, South America. In 1959, Ecuador declared 97% of the land area of the Galápagos Islands to be Galápagos National Park, which UNESCO registered as a World Heritage Site in 1978. Ecuador created the Galápagos Marine Reserve in 1998, which UNESCO appended in 2001.
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  • Gondolas are moored on Saint Mark's Basin across from Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore, a 16th century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, Italy, Europe. The basilica was designed in the classical renaissance style by Andrea Palladio and built from 1566-1610. The white marble basilica rises above the blue water of the lagoon (San Marco Basin and Canal) across from Piazzetta San Marco. The campanile (bell tower), first built in 1467, fell in 1774, and was rebuilt in neo-classic style by 1791. Gondolas are traditional, flat-bottomed rowing boats which ferry people through Venetian canals. From a peak of 10,000 gondolas 200 years ago, just 500 gondolas now serve Venice. The banana-shaped modern gondola was developed in the 1800s. The left side of the gondola is made longer than the right side to resist leftwards drift at the forward stroke. The gondolier stands on the stern facing the bow and rows just on the right side, with a forward stroke and compensating backward stroke. The oar or rèmo is held in an oar lock, or fórcola, shaped for several rowing positions. The decorative fèrro (meaning iron) ornament on the front can be made of brass, stainless steel, or aluminum, as counterweight for the gondolier standing near the stern. The six horizontal lines and curved top of the ferro represent Venice's six sestieri (districts) and the Doge's cap. Painting gondolas black originated as a sumptuary law banning ostentatious competition between nobles. The romantic "City of Canals" stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy, Europe. Venice and the Venetian Lagoons are honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
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  • Many Glacier Hotel was built in 1915 on the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Book a boat tour at the dock. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 active glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear by 2020, say climate scientists. (Panorama stitched from 3 overlapping images.)
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  • Bicycle in view of Wizard Island, which rises in the deep blue lake at Crater Lake National Park, in Oregon, USA. To allow snow plowing in early June, Rim Drive is closed to cars but open to bicycles, making an excellent time for a bike ride free of automobiles. Published in August 2015 issues of Alaska Airlines & Horizon Edition inflight magazines. Published on BikeGrandCanyon.com and on a poster for their affiliated BikeYourPark.org.
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  • Lunch at Below Clear Creek Camp (River Mile 84.8) in the Inner Gorge. Day 6 of 16 days rafting 226 miles down the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA. Multiple overlapping photos were stitched to make this panorama. For this photo’s licensing options, please inquire at PhotoSeek.com. "The rocks of the Vishnu Formation, predominantly mica schists, are the oldest in the Grand Canyon. Approximately 2 billion years ago, 25,000 feet of sediments were deposited and volcanics extruded onto the ancient sea floor. During an orogeny, a mountain-building episode, 1.7 billion years ago, those rocks were folded, faulted, and uplifted (metamorphosed), and intruded by the Zoroaster Formation, predominantly granite (also subsequently metamorphosed to form granite gneiss). The resulting mountain range is believed to have been 5-6 miles high. Over the next 500 million years, the mountains were eroded until only their roots remained, and today, the roots of those mountains form the steep walls of the inner gorge." - geologistwriter.com
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  • In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within Fort Stevens State Park, along the Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens. Multiple overlapping photos were stitched to make this panorama.
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  • Saddle horses on the trail at Cerro Tronador, an extinct stratovolcano in the southern Andes, near Bariloche, in the Lake District of Argentina. The sound of falling seracs gave it the name Tronador, Spanish for "Thunderer." With an altitude of 3470 m, Tronador stands more than 1000 meters above nearby mountains in the Andean massif, making it a popular climb in Patagonia, South America. Located inside two National Parks, Nahuel Huapi in Argentina and Vicente Pérez Rosales in Chile, Tronador hosts eight glaciers, which are retreating due to warming of the upper troposphere.
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  • In February 2020, road construction readies for future paving of Carretera Austral (CH-7) west of Villa Cerro Castillo, in Chile, Patagonia, South America. Tourism in Chilean Patagonia is increasing as infrastructure and roads improve.
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  • Aerial view where Gilman Glacier meets the massive Johns Hopkins Glacier in Johns Hopkins Inlet, in the West Arm of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA. Flightseeing from Skagway or Haines is a spectacular way to see Glacier Bay. We were bedazzled by Mountain Flying Service's 1.3-hour West Arm tour from Skagway. Glacier Bay is honored by UNESCO as part of a huge Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage site shared between Canada and the United States. In 1750-80, Glacier Bay was totally covered by ice, which has since radically melted away. In 1794, Captain George Vancover found Icy Strait on the Gulf of Alaska choked with ice, and all but a 3-mile indentation of Glacier Bay was filled by a huge tongue of the Grand Pacific Glacier, 4000 feet deep and 20 miles wide. By 1879, naturalist John Muir reported that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. In 1890, "Glacier Bay" was named by Captain Beardslee of the U.S. Navy. Over the last 200 years, melting glaciers have exposed 65 miles of ocean. As of 2019, glaciers cover only 27% of the Park area. Since the mid 1900s, Alaska has warmed 3 degrees Fahrenheit and its winters have warmed nearly 6 degrees. Human-caused climate change induced by emissions of greenhouse gases continues to accelerate warming at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is having disproportionate effects in the Arctic, which is heating up twice as fast as the rest of Earth.
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  • Aerial view of Haines, Alaska, USA. Flightseeing from Skagway or Haines is a spectacular way to see Glacier Bay National Park, in Southeast Alaska. We were bedazzled by Mountain Flying Service's 1.3-hour West Arm tour from Skagway. Glacier Bay is honored by UNESCO as part of a huge Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage site shared between Canada and the United States. In 1750-80, Glacier Bay was totally covered by ice, which has since radically melted away. In 1794, Captain George Vancover found Icy Strait on the Gulf of Alaska choked with ice, and all but a 3-mile indentation of Glacier Bay was filled by a huge tongue of the Grand Pacific Glacier, 4000 feet deep and 20 miles wide. By 1879, naturalist John Muir reported that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. In 1890, "Glacier Bay" was named by Captain Beardslee of the U.S. Navy. Over the last 200 years, melting glaciers have exposed 65 miles of ocean. As of 2019, glaciers cover only 27% of the Park area. Since the mid 1900s, Alaska has warmed 3 degrees Fahrenheit and its winters have warmed nearly 6 degrees. Human-caused climate change induced by emissions of greenhouse gases continues to accelerate warming at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is having disproportionate effects in the Arctic, which is heating up twice as fast as the rest of Earth.
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  • Collapsing railway. Independence Mine State Historic Park, 14 miles from Palmer, Alaska, USA. The Independence Mines were a gold mining operation in the Talkeetna Mountains, across Hatcher Pass from Palmer. Independence Mine was the second-largest hard-rock gold mining operation in Alaska, after a larger site near Juneau. Mining here dates back to 1897 around Fishook Creek; these claims joined to form Wasilla Mining Company, which worked the mines from 1934-1943 and again 1948-1950. The company ended operations in 1950 expecting to resume, but never did, thereby well-preserving its mining equipment and buildings for eventual donation to the state in 1980, which established Independence Mine State Historic Park.
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  • Old cart wheels. Barkerville Historic Town & Park, British Columbia, Canada. Historically the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush, Barkerville is now the largest living-history museum in Western North America. The town was named after Billy Barker from Cambridgeshire, England, who struck gold here in 1861, and his claim became the richest and the most famous. This National Historic Site nestles in the Cariboo Mountains at elevation 1200m (4000ft), at the end of BC Highway 26, 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Quesnel. Gold here was first discovered at Hills Bar in 1858, followed by other strikes in 1859 and 1860. Wide publication of these discoveries in 1861 began the Cariboo Gold Rush, which reached full swing by 1865 following strikes along Williams Creek.
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  • Tandem paragliding over Queenstown, Otago region, South Island of New Zealand. Queenstown Bay is on Lake Wakatipu, a long Z-shaped lake carved by glaciers.
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  • Built in 2002, the Falkirk Wheel is the world's first and only rotating boat lift. It reconnects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal for the first time since the 1930s. The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft) in just 15 minutes, then a pair of locks raises them 11 metres (36 ft) higher to reach the Union Canal. Falkirk, central Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
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  • Crew mess below decks of USS Missouri. Ordered in 1940 and active in June 1944, the USS Missouri ("Mighty Mo") was the last battleship commissioned by the United States. She is best remembered as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II on September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay. In the Pacific Theater of World War II, she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands. She fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. Decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy reserve fleets (the "Mothball Fleet"), she was reactivated and modernized in 1984 and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in January-February 1991. The ship was decommissioned in March 1992. In 1998, she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
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  • Playfully, Switzerland advertises the Glacier Express as "the slowest express train in the world." Opened in 1930, this narrow gauge railway connects the mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps, from the Matterhorn to Piz Bernina, frequently applying a rack-and-pinion system to go up and down steep grades. An especially curlycue portion of the Glacier Express route is honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the "Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes". Jointly operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) and Rhaetian Railway (RhB), the 7.5 hour railway journey crosses 291 bridges, enters 91 tunnels and reaches 2033 m (6670 ft) elevation at Oberalp Pass.
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  • Playfully, Switzerland advertises the Glacier Express as "the slowest express train in the world." Opened in 1930, this narrow gauge railway connects the mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps, from the Matterhorn to Piz Bernina, frequently applying a rack-and-pinion system to go up and down steep grades. An especially curlycue portion of the Glacier Express route is honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the "Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes". Jointly operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) and Rhaetian Railway (RhB), the 7.5 hour railway journey crosses 291 bridges, enters 91 tunnels and reaches 2033 m (6670 ft) elevation at Oberalp Pass.
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  • In Zermatt, Switzerland, the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB) takes you to a spectacular ridge (at 3135 m or 10,285 ft) between Gornergletscher and Findelgletscher, with views of 20+ four-thousand meter peaks, whose highest are Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa massif), Liskamm, Matterhorn, Dom and Weisshorn. Gornergrat train, opened in 1898, climbs almost 1500 m or 4900 ft via Riffelalp and Riffelberg in the Pennine Alps, Europe.
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