National Geographic 每日一图：3月11-20日（中英文注解）（图） - 珍珠湾ART

March 11, 2007

Alaska, 1969

Photograph by George F. Mobley

Caribou graze on tundra, tinted orange by the sun, somewhere between Nome and Teller on western Alaska’s Seward Peninsula. Caribou share this remote, sub-Arctic expanse with musk oxen, moose, and grizzly bears, among other hearty creatures.

驯鹿放牧于抹上一层橘的黄苔原上，位于西阿拉斯加Seward半岛的Nome and Teller。驯鹿同麝牛，驼鹿，大灰熊以及其它强健动物，共享这片偏远的亚北极区旷野。

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Alaska, 1969)

March 12, 2007

Tasmania, Australia, 1996

Photograph by Sam Abell

A bare tree stands on a rocky shoreline in Tasmania, a heart-shaped island 150 miles (241 kilometers) south of the Australian mainland. The forbidding landscape of Tasmania, or “Tassie,” as locals call it, was the site of numerous British penal colonies, beginning in the early 1800s.

光秃秃一棵树，在Tasmania岩石海岸线上站立。这里是一个心型的岛屿，在澳大利亚本土以南241公里处。Tasmania的可怕的地形，当地人称为Tassie，从19世纪初就曾经是英国海外流放地。

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Australia’s Best Kept Secret,” Sept./Oct. 1996, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

March 13, 2007

Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1983

Photograph by Emory Kristof

A smear of red in a desert of pale ice, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador trudges through the frozen landscape of the Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The Canadian Coast Guard was part of a mission to explore the sunken wreckage of the H.M.S. Breadalbane, a British ship that went down in the 1850s while on a mission to find survivors of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to map the Northwest Passage.

白茫茫冰上一抹红，是加拿大海岸守卫队破冰船Labrador,穿越加拿大西北地域的北冰洋冰冻地形。加拿大海岸守卫队参与一项任务，勘查沉没的H.M.S. Breadalbane号。这只英国轮船在执行搜寻运气糟糕的Franklin号远征队幸存者的任务时沉没，这只队伍是为了为“西北通道”绘制地图。
[大清注 -- 西北通道：从大西洋到太平洋的水路，穿过加拿大北部的北冰洋群岛，沿阿拉斯加北部海岸。从16世纪起海员们就开始寻找它，19世纪早期它已被证实存在，但是直到1903年至1906年挪威探险家罗德·阿芝德森率一支探队穿越时它才被打通。破冰油轮曼哈顿号是第一支通过此水道的商业船(1969年）]

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Exploring a 140-Year-Old Ship Under Arctic Ice,” July 1983, National Geographic magazine)

March 14, 2007

Panama, 1977

Photograph by George F. Mobley

A young margay cat peeks over a step at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute station on Barro Colorado, a forested island in the Panama Canal waterway. The island rises from Lake Gatun, which formed in 1907 when the Chagres River was dammed during construction of the canal.

一只幼虎从台阶上窥视Smithsonian热带研究所在科罗拉多Barro岛上的试验站，这是巴拿马运河水道上一个被森林覆盖的岛屿，在Gatun湖上立出，湖是1907年在建造运河时围堰Chagres河而形成。

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Panama Canal Today," February 1978, National Geographic magazine)

March 15, 2007

Loango National Park, Gabon, 2003

Photograph by Michael Nichols

In a true play of might makes right, a mature ghost crab threatens a juvenile on the sands of Loango National Park. The park, too, is waging its own battles against poachers, oil companies, and piles of litter. In one day, trash collectors gathered 535 plastic bottles, 560 intact flip-flops, 4 refrigerators, and 2,240 other bits of debris from 1,640 feet (500 meters) of beach.

在一出真实的弱肉强食的演剧里，一只成熟的魔鬼螃蟹在威胁沙地上一只幼小的。这里是Loango国家公园。这个公园正发动一场反偷猎、石油公司和成堆垃圾的战斗。在一天的时间，收拾垃圾的人，可以在500米的沙滩上，收集到535个塑料瓶，560个完好的拖鞋，4个冰箱，2240件其它碎片。

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)

March 16, 2007

Mono Lake, California, 1982

Photograph by James P. Blair

Spires of limestone tufa rise from the shores of California’s Mono Lake. Tufa form when underwater springs rich in calcium meet lake water rich in carbonates, forming calcium carbonate, or limestone. The limestone precipitates in layers over time and can grow more than 30 feet (9 meters) high. Mono Lake’s tufa are particularly dramatic because water diversions have significantly lowered the lake’s level, exposing more of the columns.

石灰石的石灰华尖尖顶在加州Mono湖岸边升出来。当富含钙质的地下水和富含碳酸盐的湖水相遇时，产生碳酸钙即石灰石，石灰华就形成了。时间久了，石灰石沉积成层，可以长出9米高！ Mono湖石灰华特别生动，因为水流改道显著降低湖面高度，让更多柱体暴露无遗。

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic special publication, Our Threatened Inheritance, 1982.)

March 17, 2007

Inishbofin Island, Ireland, 1994

Photograph by Sam Abell

An emerald pasture dotted with daisies and flanked by distant sand dunes rolls to the foot of a rustic gate and a stone wall on the Irish island of Inishbofin. Picturesque scenes like this are plentiful on the windy Aran Islands, but tourism driven by the many bed-and-breakfasts, golf courses, and ferries, is taking a toll on these once-rural landscapes.

爱尔兰岛屿Inishbofin上，翠绿的牧场，星星点缀着雏菊，远处的沙丘环绕四周，一直卷到斑驳的铁门和一堵石墙。这样独特的景观在多风的Aran岛屿上相当多见，受到B&B (以种简易的纸提供床位和面包的旅馆 -- 大清注)，高尔夫球及轮渡的驱动，观光活动正在对这些曾经的原始风光产生不好影响。

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)

March 18, 2007

Canberra, Australia, 1974

Photograph by Robert F. Sisson

Pincers poised and eyes gleaming, a bulldog ant surveys its surroundings. These aggressive ants, named for their propensity to latch onto objects, are well known in Australia for their large size and painful sting.

钳子放好，眼睛闪忽，一只牛头犬蚂蚁巡视着他的周围，这类侵略性蚂蚁，以具有猎取目标物的倾向著称，在澳大利亚因为他们的大个头和令人痛苦的叮咬而路人皆知。

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, 揂t Home with the Bulldog Ant,? July 1974, National Geographic magazine)

March 19, 2007

Kathmandu, Nepal, 1979

Photograph by John Scofield

A spotted deer buck attends to a doe in the Central Zoo of Kathmandu, Nepal. Opened in 1932 as a place to house the private animal collection of the current prime minister, the zoo is now run by a non-profit nature conservation trust. It maintains exhibits of some of Nepal’s most well known and endangered fauna, including one-horned Indian rhinos, Bengal tigers, and the clouded leopard.

尼泊尔Kathmandu中心动物园里，一只雄性梅花鹿在照看一只母鹿。这个动物园， 1932年开园，是用来作为现任总理的私人动物藏品收容处，现在由一家非营利自然保护信托机构运营。藏有理伯尔尼一些最出名的濒危动物，包括独角印度犀牛孟加拉虎和云豹。

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kathmandu’s Remarkable Newars," February 1979, National Geographic magazine)

March 20, 2007

Rocks Provincial Park, New Brunswick, Canada, 1990

Photograph by James P. Blair

The sculpted silhouettes of Hopewell Rocks rise from the muddy waters of the Bay of Fundy in Canada抯 New Brunswick province. These sandstone-and-conglomerate sea stacks were spared during the glacial sweep of the last ice age, but bear the effects of centuries of tidal erosion. The Bay of Fundy sees some of the world抯 greatest tidal variability, and the constant flow continues to shape these rocks.

加拿大New Brunswick省Fundy Bay 的泥浆水中，Hopewell Rocks雕塑树立其中。这些沙岩与砾岩海中堆积是上一个冰河时期在冰河席卷中遗留下来，但同时保留有几个世纪潮汐侵蚀的影响。Fundy湾具有是世界上最大的潮汐变化性，不断的水流，一直塑造着这些石头。

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic special publication Canada抯 Incredible Coast, 1990)