Images Dated 9th February 2007

Whooper swans float on waters of Lake Kussharo in Teshikaga town in Hokkaido, northern

Whooper swans float on the waters of Lake Kussharo in Akan National Park in Teshikaga town in the eastern part of Hokkaido, northern Japan February 9, 2007. In the winter, hundreds of swans migrate to lake Kussharo, which is one of the largest caldera lakes in the world. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)
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HMS Montrose Anchored in Grytviken, South Georgia

Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose is dwarfed by the mountains of The Pot Cove near Grytviken, South Georgia in the South Atlantic.
She is deployed as the Atlantic Patrol Task (South) Ship between October 2011 and May 2012. Her primary role is to protect and promote UK interests in the South Atlantic, by maintaining a presence in the region.
The ship aims to visit all the British South Atlantic Overseas Territories over the coming months

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Jean-Francois Champollion, (1790-1832), 1881. Artist: Gaston Maspero

Jean-Francois Champollion, (1790-1832), 1881. French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, credited as the father of Egyptology, Published in L'Egypt by Gaston Maspero, 1881

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