Palm trees cast lacy contours against a star-speckled sky in Coromandel Forest Park, New Zealand. Sprawled across 180,387 acres (73,000 hectares) in northeastern New Zealand, Coromandel Forest Park is home to stunning vistas: luxuriant forests, velvety fields, gnarled volcanoes, and rushing rivers.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Case of the Missing Carbon," February 2004, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Peter Essick
(意译)：棕榈树呈现花边的轮廓，相反产于印度东部的乌木（Coromandel）森林公园有一些斑点样的星空，新西兰。乌木蔓生180，387英亩在新西兰东北地区，乌木森林公园是极好的街景：丰产的森林，天鹅绒般的原野，扭曲的火山，和许多急流。
A paraglider casts a shadow over the dunes of Nigers Ténéré desert. A south-central tract of the Sahara, the 150,000-square-mile (400,000-square-kilometer) Ténéré is one of Africas most forbidding regions. Hot, dusty harmattan winds blow across the bone-dry desert, which receives an annual rainfall of about 1 inch (25 millimeters).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Journey to the Heart of the Sahara," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)
（意译）：一把滑翔伞投射的阴影在非洲中西部国家――尼日尔的（Tenere）沙漠。它是一个位于撒哈拉沙漠的南部中心的沙漠，合计达到十五万平方英里（四十万平方公里），（Tenere）沙漠是非洲最为可怕的地方之一。酷热环境、满是灰尘的、干燥的热风越过极为干燥的沙漠，在那里每年的降雨量大约是一英寸（25毫米）。
Easter Island, 1979
Photograph by Gordon Gahan
Giant stone moai stand on Easter Islands stony slopes. Earlier explorers believed the stone statues were worshipped as gods by native Polynesians, but Captain James Cook and his men speculated in 1774 that they were constructed to honor ancestors, a view still held by many today. (Text adapted from and photograph from the National Geographic book Voyages to Paradise: Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook, 1981)
意译：主标题：复活节岛，1979 巨石雕像竖立在耶稣复活节岛的石斜坡面，最早的探险家认为石雕像是本土玻利维亚人们崇拜神灵而作，但是库克船长和其他人，在1774年推测是为了尊敬他们的祖先。这一景观持续到今天。
Route 66, Arizona, 1997
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi
Vestiges of Americana linger in an ice cream shops sign along Arizonas historic Route 66. Memorialized in many ways—in writing (Grapes of Wrath, On the Road), in song ("Get Your Kicks on Route 66"), and on screen (Route Sixty-Six)—the road still echoes mid-twentieth-century American culture.
意译：主标题：美国，亚利桑那州，66公路，1997。
美国人喜欢逗留在冰淇淋商店的痕迹，沿着亚利桑那州的著名的66号公路，表现多种方式，如作品、唱歌和看电影等，这里依然是二十世纪中期美国文化的回放。
