Tagra

Chaatai

Also see: Chaatai

Aurora australis (“southern lights”) over Tagra. ¹⁾

Stone run on the Chaatai flanks of the Thunder Mountains, near Yakak'ratu. ²⁾

Podocarps growing in western Chaatai, near K'igachi. ³⁾

A mountain lake in central Chaatai. ⁴⁾

Takrakaya

Also see: Takrakaya

Stands of sahha flowers on the shore of Lake Ngang, southern Takrakaya. ⁵⁾

Forest of Dicksonia tree ferns on the Takrakayan coast. ⁶⁾

“Limestone forest” in eastern Takrakaya. ⁷⁾

The rocky steppe of southern Takrakaya, not far from Lake Ngang. ⁸⁾

Kru'u

Also see: Kru'u

Cold swamp in northeastern Kru'u. ⁹⁾

The basalt cliffs facing the Sea of Whales. ¹⁰⁾

Tayaka lands

Also see: Tayaka

Snow penitentes on the eastern Lightning Mountains. ¹¹⁾

The Ksarlai range of the Lightning Mountains, near Tsikaashi. ¹²⁾

A salt flat near Kulla-Tag, turned into a mirror by recent rain. ¹³⁾

The dunes of Kulla-Tag, as seen from the western edge of the desert. ¹⁴⁾

Other regions

The craters of Mount Chai'ukru in winter. ¹⁵⁾

Dense Araucaria forest in the Qqasq (!Akau'a) lands. ¹⁶⁾

Krummholz (wind-distorted plants) on northern 'Ai!u'ai, not far from the Wall of the Sea. ¹⁷⁾

A glacier on the Dragon's Jaw. ¹⁸⁾

Dry valley in the Polar Fields, where catabatic wind prevents snow buildup. ¹⁹⁾

Seas

Broken floating ice in the Sea of Storms. ²⁰⁾

The eternal wind on the Wall of the Sea. ²¹⁾

Sources

All original images are published either as public domain or under Creative Commons license (“CC”).

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Aurora australis in Antarctica (source); Samuel Blanc, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Stone run in the Falkland Islands (source); Apcbg, public domain

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Podocarpus henkelii in the botanic garden of Barcelona (source); Dinkum, CC0 1.0

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Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada (source); Edwardwexler, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Lake Tekapo in the South Island of New Zealand; the purple flowers are lupins, introduced from Eurasia (source); Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Dicksonia antarctica in Australia (source); Fir0002/Flagstaffotos, CC BY-NC 3.0

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The Shilin Stone Forest in southwest China, a type of karst formation (source); BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0

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The steppe of Zabaykalsky Krai, in southeastern Siberia (source); Anton Petrov, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Bald cypresses in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia (source); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region, CC BY 2.0

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Basalt cliff on an island near Scotland (source); George Brown / Basalt sea cliff below Sliabh Beinn Tighe / CC BY-SA 2.0

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Penitentes, a rare type of snow formation, in the Atacama Desert in Chile (source); European Southern Observatory, CC BY 4.0

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Khan Tengri in the Tian Shan mountains, between China, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan (source); Chen Zhao, CC BY 2.0

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The Uyuni salt flat (Salar de Uyuni) in Bolivia, just after rain (source); Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA 4.0

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Dunes of Khongoryn Els in the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia (source); Zoharby, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Actually true: view of Mount Erebus in Antarctica (source); NSF/Josh Landis, public domain

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Araucaria angustifolia in southeastern Brazil (source); Adrian Michael, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Krummholz pine on Wheeler Peak, in Nevada (source); Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0

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The Franz Joseph Glacier in the South Island of New Zealand (source); Pseudopanax, public domain

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The Miers Valley and Miers glacier in the Victoria Land of Antarctica (source); Saxphile, CC BY 3.0

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Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice, 1824 (source); Caspar David Friedrich, public domain

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Ivan Aivazovsky's Among the Waves, 1898 (source); Ivan Aivazovsky, public domain

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