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Here's the big picture, and it's looking good! Get a new perspective on South Africa with some of the best satellite images of the country, from the mouth of the magnificent Orange River in the west to the St Lucia wetlands in the east ...
View of the Earth taken in 1972 by the Apollo 17 crew travelling to the moon
South Africa
Africa at night
Sunglint on the ocean off the southern coast of the Western Cape

South African coast, looking west
South African coast, looking east
Cape Peninsula, Western Cape
Perspective satellite image showing Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope

Gauteng, with parts of North West and the Free State
Johannesburg,Gauteng
The Agulhas current
Heavy snow over eastern South Africa and Lesotho in July 2004

Mbashe River, Transkei, Eastern Cape
Mbashe River mouth, Transkei, Eastern Cape
The Orange River
Orange River mouth

Cape Hermes at Port St Johns on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape
Fires in Cape Town
Drakensberg Mountains
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

The Groot Swartberg mountains, Western Cape
False Bay, Western Cape
Diamond fields of the Northern Cape
Water reservoir and agriculture near Kimberley

The town of Paarl in the Western Cape
Coega industrial development zone and deepwater port, Eastern Cape
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Stellenbosch in the Western Cape

Bloom of phytoplankton off the Cape west coast
Saldhana Bay of the Cape west coast
Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park
The St Lucia estuary in northern KwaZulu-Natal

Richtersveld mountains
The Vredefort Dome, the largest meteor impact site in the world
False-colour image of the Western Cape, with vegetation health indicated in green
The Drakensberg mountains

The Northern Cape region
The Western Cape region
The Eastern Cape region
The KwaZulu-Natal region

Photo copyright: We do not hold copyright on these photos. Permission for re-use should be sought from the copyright holder indicated below each photograph. Gallery compiled by Mary Alexander

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