A bright purple Devil's Hand Coral?growing on a reef on top of a volcanic lava flow. Station w

A bright purple Devil's Hand Coral?growing on a reef on top of a volcanic lava flow. Station wA bright purple Devil's Hand Coral? growing on a reef on top of a volcanic lava flow. Lava Flow, Banda Neira, Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia.

A herd of African Elephants migrating across a wetland island floodplain

Apartment complexes crowd a waterfront and harbour district

A dance of sunlight filters down from the shallow surface

A seal skull and bones bleached on a beach after a sealers slaughter

A San Bushmen woman digging flesh from a citron melon with a stick to eat

A South Polar Skua takes flight on enormous wings

swims underwater at speed

A tourist houseboat moored on the shore of a river wetland

During a blizzard at night ship spotlight beams search for icebergs

A tiny alpine clubmoss emerges from leaf litter on the forest floor

North of Katherine

A collection of rocks waiting to be prepared for sale to collectors