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Edinburgh / United Kingdom
The Royal Mile

by Alexander Brunner
Latitude: 55.949120
Longitude: -3.195199
02 Mar 2010 - Photo album of Oman added.

You can find the quintessence of the orient in the Sultanate of Oman, the homeland of Sinbad the Sailor and flying carpets. Oman's attractions include a largely untouched coastline, mountains, canyons, deserts and the burgeoning capital Muscat....

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11 Jun 2009 - Photo album of Paris/France added.

Paris, the capital of France, is with its 11 million inhabitants the most populated metropolitan area in Europe. An important settlement for more than 2000 years, Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centers....

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24 Mar 2009 - Photo album of Turkey added.

Turkey, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions in the world. Due to its strategic location astride two continents, Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition and offers an immense cultural heritage....

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23 Feb 2009 - Photo album of Helgoland added.

Helgoland is a tiny island in the North Sea which is special in many ways. Helgoland, a former posession of Denmark and Great Britain nowadays belongs to Germany and....

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02 Feb 2009 - Photo album of Bretagne added.

Brittany or Bretagne occupies a large peninsula in the north-west of France, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south....

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03 Dec 2008 - Photo album of Dubrovnik added.

Dubrovnik is a Dalmatian city in the southern part of Croatia. Dubrovnik is famous for its old historic center which is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites....

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29 Nov 2008 - Photo album of Morocco added.

Morocco is a country in the northwest of Africa with a population of 34 million, comparable in size to Iraq or California. The region south east of the Atlas Mountains belongs to the Sahara Desert.....

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18 Apr 2008 - Photo album of London (United Kingdon) added.

London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is the most populous municipiality of the European Union, with an estimated population of over 12 million (metropolitan area) belonging to over 300 ethnic groups....

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5 Apr 2008 - Photo album of Oahu/Hawaii (USA) added.

Oahu, known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaii. Today, Oahu has become a tourism and shopping haven as over 5 million visitors from the American mainland and from Japan flock there every year....

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3 Apr 2008 - Photo album of Kauai/Hawaii (USA) added.

Kauai is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands, and was the first island that Captain James Cook sighted on his voyages to North America.

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20 Mar 2008 - Photo album of Kruger National Park (South Africa) added.

The Kruger National Park is the largest game reserve in South Africa and is reportedly the most biodiverse game reserve on earth..

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17 Feb 2008 - Photo album of part of the Way of St James in France (Rhône-Alpes/Auvergne) added.

The Way of St James has existed for over a thousand years. It was one of the most important Christian pilgrimages during medieval times.

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18 Dec 2007 - PhotoGlobe Explorer is a PC-based software, designed by the PhotoGlobe team, for managing georeferenced photos. You can take care of your photos, assign the positions where the photos have been taken and display the photo locations on geographic maps. A first release is now available for download.

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04 Dec 2007 - Photo album of Fogo (Cabo Verde) added.

Fogo (Portuguese for "fire") is a volcanic island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde. Mount Fogo (Pico de Fogo) is the second largest peak in the Atlantic Ocean, rising to nearly 3,000 m above sea level. The volcano has been active in recent times, with its last eruption in 1995.

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01 Dec 2007 - Photo album of Sal (Cabo Verde) added.

Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is part of the Barlavento group of the Cape Verde islands. Sal is one of the three flat and sandy islands and has been discovered in 1460. Sal is of volcanic origin and is the oldest island of Cabo Verde.

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01 Nov 2007 - Photo album of Edinburgh (UK) added.

Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and (after Glasgow) the second largest city of Scotland. Edinburgh is not only well-known for the annual festival but also for its beautiful scenery. Edinburgh is one the major tourist destinations of Europe, attracting more than 13 million visitors a year.

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04 Oct 2007 - Photo album of Hong Kong (China) added.

The name "Hong Kong" literally means "fragrant harbour" and dates back to the days when fragrant wood products were traded in the harbor of present-day Aberdeen.

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02 Oct 2007 - Photo album of L'viv (Ukraine) added.

L'viv, a city of approx 800000 inhabitants is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It is located on the verge of the Roztochia Upland, approximately seventy kilometres from the Polish border, and about 160 kilometers from the eastern Carpathian Mountains. The historic city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and has many architectural treasures.

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