Another Cool Geo-Pic from NASA's Earth Observatory.
There is something striking about the coast edges that makes this image intriguing.
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"Cut & Paste Description" Highlights:
" ....In 2008, one out of every four people living in Senegal lived in the coastal capital of Dakar. Over previous decades, the city spread over the Cap Vert Peninsula as a result of both migration and growing families. In the 1940s, the city occupied just the southern tip of the peninsula. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, cityscape had sprawled both northward and eastward..... "
References:
United Nations Environment Programme. (2008). Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment. Division of Early Warning and Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
Hopkins, B. (2008). Birding in the Dakar area. Seawatching in Senegal.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.
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