Landscape Postcard

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features. A prairie: Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA. Tropical rainforest, Fatu Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tundra in Siberia, Russia. Taiga (Boreal forest), Alaska, US. A desert: The rainshadow region of Tirunelveli, India. A wetland: Viru Bog in Lahemaa National Park in Estonia. The Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Swiss Alps. Large fields of modern farmland, Dorset, England A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions.