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Source Seen from the air, the glistening pale pink surface of remote Lake Hillier looks like glace icing on an oblong cake. The lake gives unexpected colour to a densely wooded corner of Middle Island, one of more than 100 small islands ...

Lake Magadi - Soda Lake lies in remote, semidesert surroundings where the daytime temperature rises to 38°C(100°F) and is thick with soda. Natron, which often glows blotchy pink, is marginally milder but larger - 40 miles (64km) long and 10 miles ...

Imagine a huge, river roaring down a rugged, winding Alpine valley, huge waves rearing, and deep troughs appearing. Suppose that, in an instant, it was frozen into a solid mass at the height of its violent movement. Then, in your mind's ...

In 1870, a Kansas schoolboy read a short article - in the newspaper wrapped around his lunch - about a lake that lay high in the Oregon mountains, encircled by sheer walls and containing an extinct volcano. The article triggered William ...

Carved by glaciers and fretted by frost, the extraordinary rock skyline of the dolomites looks like vast battlements, needles, towers and walls. This mountain range in northeast Italy is a series of light-coloured limestone ridges separated by green valleys, and rivalling ...

Despite its name, Lake Eyre is barely a lake at all, but rather two huge, shallow scoops in the thirsty heartland of Australia. Its salt-caked floor is dry most of the time, and a rim of thick, encrusted minerals hangs like ...

The granite domes of the Drakensberg range of mountains in South Africa's Transvaal rise above the twisting valleys of the Blyde River Canyon, their summits separated by terrifying ravines. Below, rivers and streams run through a tranquil landscape, bypassing old prospectors' ...

While dinosaurs forage in the green heart of Australia, a huge fireball plunges into the plain, shattering the landscape with a force hundreds of thousands of times greater than that of the nuclear bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima ...

Once upon a time, the Twelve Apostles - the huge rock stacks that stand offshore near Port Campbell in south-east Australia - were part of the jagged limestone cliffs. These stacks have resisted thousands of years of battering by relentless seas ...

Having a dream house can be a very important part of your life. We all know the happiness of having our own house, a beautiful garden to it, and a magnificent chandelier in the living area. But, have you ever imagined it ...

Beech, larch and towering conifers overhang the River Arazas as it hurries down steps and waterfalls through Ordesa Canyon. Above this looms a monumental backdrop of uncompromising ruggedness - walls of fluted limestone rising sheer from the valley of heights of ...

Even hardened travellers lapse into spellbound silence as ocean-going cruise liners, dwarfed by their surroundings to seem like model toys, glide into Sognefjord. The mountains rise almost vertically from the water's edge - sheer walls of strong granitic rock some 3000ft ...