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Image credit: u/Mediocre-Disk737 on reddit

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Also testing if my MP4 file loads on lemmy

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Cross-posted from "Top-down view of the Circle Bridge in Copenhagen, Denmark" by @PugJesus@lemmy.world in !inhabitedbeauty@lemmy.world

Also known as the Sea of Plastic, the greenhouses that now cover more than 40,000 hectares of the Spanish province of Almería are said to be easily visible from space. More info here.

Now one of Italy's most fertile plains, this is the area formerly occupied by Lake Fucine until it was fully drained in 1878. More info here.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20334793

A curious round-ish depression located in the mountains by the Korean DMZ. More info on Wikipedia.

The sea, which straddles the border between Israel and Jordan, has seen its surface area shrink by about 33 percent since the 1960s. A plan to replenish the Dead Sea with seawater from the Red Sea was proposed in 2009, but abandoned in 2021.

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Not sure what these darker stripes are. They look like submerged timber og logs

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The Batagaika Crater, located in the Chersky Range of northeastern Siberia, Russia, is the largest permafrost crater in the world. One kilometer (0.6 miles) long, 100 meters (328 feet) deep, and growing, it has been sinking due to thawing permafrost since the 1960s. Batagaika’s rim is extremely unstable and the site of regular landslides, retreating by as much as 30 meters (98 feet) in a single year.

67.580000°, 134.771400°

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The former capital of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory, has been fully abandoned since 1997 due to a series of eruptions at the Soufrière Hills volcano. More info here.

34°22'25.3"S 137°40'23.6"E

I was randomly browsing Google Earth and had drifted into Hungary when I noticed that many plots there, are elongated. They have a short front towards a road, where a house or structure usually is located, but then extend a pretty long way behind that!

Hidden Beach is not quite so hidden - listed as a tourist attraction on google:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2LvWzMa5iaYtYiS2A

Interestingly, google has the location of quite a lot of hidden beaches!