22 Amazing Photos From The National Geographic Archives
Featured 02/12/2017 in ftw
Nat Geo released these awesome pics for their 125th anniversary,
1. A man stands dwarfed under the Ape-Ape leaves of Puohokamoa Gulch in Maui, Hawaii, 1924.Image source: Gilbert H. Grosvenor
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3. A woodman notches a felled tree’s trunk for sectioning in Western Australia, 1962.Image source: Robert B. Goodman
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4. Men blast granite to build tunnels for a hydroelectric project in Australia, 1963Image source: Robert B. Goodman
6. The wind sculpts the dunes of the Sahara Desert in the Erg Bourarhet, Algeria, 1973Image source: Thomas J. Abercrombie
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7. Surfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963Image source: Robert B. Goodman
8. Woman adorned like a Chinese goddess poses in a garden in California, 1915Image source: Franklin Price Knott
9. Flamingos standing and feeding in a pool near salt beds, Netherlands AntillesImage source: Volkmar K. Wentzel
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11. With claws bared, a kitten attacks its own mirrored reflection, 1964Image source: Walter Chandoha
12. A shadow of a man holding a bicycle is cast on a wall near the Zambezi River, 1996Image source: Chris Johns
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13. Women carry baskets on their heads while children play in Kotaka, Mali, 1991Image source: James L. Stanfield
14. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats a few meters away from Space Shuttle Challenger during the historic first use of a nitrogen-propelled manned maneuvering unit in 1984Image source: NASA
15. Dozens of visitors frolic in the water as seen through a palm frond in Acapulco, Mexico, 1964Image source: Thomas Nebbia
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17. The Statue of Liberty hails dawn over New York Harbor in 1978Image source: David Alan Harvey
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19. A young girl plays in a replica of a lunar-module in Toronto, Canada, August 1975Image source: Robert Madden
20. Welts, scars of beauty, pattern the entire back of a Nuba woman in Sudan, 1966Image source: Horst Luz
21. A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935Image source: Alfred T. Palmer
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