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More Scotch Tape

Monday, 25th July 2005 by

Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape… Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory Coast together. Not high-resolution on this one, but at the eastern end the tape fades out rather prettily into some lovely clouds. Next up is this semi-transparent tape stitching a…

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The spectacular Leptis Magna is an exceptionally well-preserved Roman city on the coast of Libya which has a history dating…

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One of many ancient roman cities in West Tripoli, Libya features an impressive amphitheatre. Much of this city, which is…

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This is the port of Tripoli in Libya, which appears to have a leaky tanker or two… Yuk! Thanks to…

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This is Waw an Namus, a 1200 metre extinct volcano in the Sahara desert, Libya. The volcano itself is surrounded…

More Scotch Tape

More Scotch Tape

Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more…

The Richat Structure

The Richat Structure

The Richat Structure in central Mauritania is a stunning geological structure 50 kilometres across (Wikipedia entry). Once thought to be…

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