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           English: A composed satellite photograph of  Africa. 
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           The image is from  . I took the two 21600x21600 images,  land_shallow_topo_west.tif and  land_shallow_topo_east.tif, and composed them. I cropped the resulting image at 8460x8900+19400+6200.  | 
        
        
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         00:46, 28 March 2005 | 
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         21:08, 13 November 2004 | 
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