Images of
Europe
Gibraltar Strait, Spain (left) and Africa (right)
(NASA).
Gibraltar Strait, Spain (left) and Africa (right)
(NASA).
Cyprus (bottom) and
Turkey coast (NASA).
Cyprus (bottom) and
Turkey coast (NASA).
Southern Sweden
(image below), with its plethora of lakes, is visible in this west-looking
photograph. The lakes were created when the continental glaciers scoured this
area and then receded, allowing the countless depressions to fill with water. In
addition to numerous smaller lakes that are generally aligned in a north-south
orientation, two large lakes—larger Lake Vänern and Lake Vättern—can be seen
toward the northern edge of the photograph. The dark green area inland from the
coast is forested lands. A small part of the Baltic Sea is pictured off the
southeast coast of Sweden, and the Skagerrak and Kattegat, the waterway entrance
into the Baltic Sea, are shown off the southwest coast of Sweden. The four main landforms of
Denmark (viewing west to east)—a peninsula (Jylland) and three islands (Fyn,
Sjelland, and Lolland)—can also be seen along the southern edge of the photograph (NASA - April 1984).
