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EAR TH’S PHYSICAL FEATURES












             CONICAL          CONICAL-                 AZIMUTHAL      AZIMUTHAL-          MODIFIED
            PROJECTION      PROJECTION MAP             PROJECTION   PROJECTION MAP  AZIMUTHAL-PROJECTION MAP
                                                      160o  180o
                                             120o                             SATELLITE MAP OF THE EARTH
                                      80o
   40o        0o         40o
                                             Kara
                                     Ural    Kum     River   River
                                     Mountains       Ob-Irtysh  Lena
        AR CTIC
                 Sea of  Azov  Caucasus
        OCEAN
                                                                                  ARCTIC CIRCLE
                                                                                   (66° 32'N)
           Carpathians
            Alps
                                                                         River
                                                                         Amur
                                              ASIA
      Pyrenees
               EUR OPE                                                          Lake Baikal
                           Black Sea
                                                                        Sea of
                                                                        Japan
    Atlas
    Mountains        Mediterranean                                              Honshu
                        Sea
                                                                                                    TROPIC OF
    Sahara                                                                   Gobi Desert            CANCER
                                                                           Yellow River             (23° 30 N)
                                                                           (Huang He)    PACIFIC
                                Red
                                Sea      Pamirs                    South                  OCEAN
                  AFRICA                             Himalayas     China    Yangtze River 
                                                                            (Chang Jiang)
                                        Caspian                    Sea
                                        Sea
                                                Thar             River
                                                Desert
                                                                 Mekong
                                        Arabian                             Borneo  New Guinea
                                        Desert       Takla Makan
                                                     Desert                                           EQUATOR
                                                                                                        (0°)
                                      River Nile
            River Congo
            (Zaire)                   Lake Victoria      Sumatra
                                        Lake
                                        Tanganyika
                                                                  Australian
                                                    INDIAN       Desert
                                                    OCEAN                     AUSTRALASIA
                                         Madagascar
                Namib
                Desert                                                                              TROPIC OF
                                                                                                   CAPRICORN
                                  Lake Nyasa                                                        (23° 30'S)
                  Kalahari
                  Desert     Drakensberg
                                                                            New Zealand
                                                                                   ANTARCTIC CIRCLE
                                                                                     (66° 32'S)
                         ANTARCTICA
   40o         0o         40o
                                     80o
            GREENWICH                       120o
             MERIDIAN           EAST OF GREENWICH   160o  180o
                                   MERIDIAN
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