50 of the Most Important Landmarks of the World (Part 1) Cataphile.com - v2. Lofoten – Arctic Circle Anomaly. The archipelago of Lofoten in Norway is north of the Arctic Circle. Yet throughout the year it has temperatures which belie its position. This is because of the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude. It makes Lofoten an unexpected delight – its early settlers must have thought they had stumbled across an arctic paradise. Prepare to have your breath taken away. What they found there was a sea teeming with life and the largest deep water coral reef in the word.
There are literally millions of sea birds with many species represented, such as the sea eagle, the cormorant and the puffin. The settlers gave one of the islands (now known as Vestvågøya) the name Lofoten which is Norse for the foot of the lynx. The first settlers must have arrived here centuries before but the archipelago, because of its climate, has been the center of huge cod fisheries for over a millennia. People were drawn to the area mostly because of the sea life. A Village in Holland with no roads « Funny Pictures wallpapers paintings collections. The Namib Desert Indoors (12 photos) Inspired by an article he read about abandoned diamond mines in Namibia, photographer Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés wanted to learn more. In his magazine he had only stumbled across one picture of Kolmanskop, a now ghost town in southern Namibia that had once been a rich mining village.
Online he found a treasure trove of interesting photos and at that moment promised himself that he would one day experience the Namib desert for himself. He would see with his very own eyes how the desert sands' had reclaimed its space. When he got there, he found "the beauty in the abandoned, of the useless, of the time passing by. " via PDN Story and photos courtesy of Alvaro Sanchez-Montañes. Other Amazing Photography:Where Science, Art and Photography Intersect (25 photos)When Gravity Fails (5 pics)Art of the Sky (13 pics)Magical Photography by Shinji Watanabe (12 photos)