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A herd of elephants gather around a watering hole in the Addo Elephant National Park, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The park was set up to protect the herds of elephants which had once roamed wild in this area, but had almost been wiped out by the early 20th century. Today there are about 200 elephants in the park. |
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Lake Bled, Slovenia. |
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A view of Florence, Italy, from the Forte Belvedere. In the centre of he picture is the Duomo (cathedral), and to the right the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio. |
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Machu Picchu, the sacred city of the Incas, in its spectactular mountain setting high in the Peruvian Andes. Abandoned by the Incas following the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century, the ruins were not discovered until 1911. |
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St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow |
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Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock), the iconic sandstone monolith near the centre of the Australian continent |
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