南美阿塔卡马沙漠.docx

At the airport, there is no thing stooge about, see a picture book in the bookstore, is taken by German photographer Gerhard H u depohl and another photographer hans-j? Rgen Pfund Chile Atacama desert region of a wonderful pictures of the Atacama. More than 100 knife, bought a bite. There his mailbox pfund@t-online.de, will be able to find him a good manuscript.Photographer Gerhard H depohl was born in Germany in 1957, early influenced by his father fell in love with photography. In 1997, he as an engineer was sent to Chile, participate in the construction of the European Southern Observatory located in Chiles Paranal Observatory (Paranal Observatory). The life turn to let him down and indissoluble bound Atacama Desert. Gerhard is interested in geological landscapes, animals and plants. He has lived in the Atacama Desert area for 13 years. During this period, he has taken a lot of wonderful pictures.Chile is the worlds most slender country. Its 4300 kilometers north and south, and the average width of the thing is only 200 km. In this narrow strip of land, the west to the East, with two distinct ranges of mountains, the coastal mountains and the Andes. The core area of Atacama Desert lies between the two mountains.The Atacama desert to the north of the border of Peru and Chile, South to 29 degrees south latitude 55 Chiles central city of La Serena, a total length of 1600 km, an area of about 7 million square kilometers. In the western desert, with an average altitude of about 800 meters from the coast mountains almost directly from the sea rises, in spite of this, in the mountains to the West still several kilometres wide desert is the narrow clips in between the coast mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In the east side of the core region of the desert, more than 6000 meters above sea level, the Andes have sprung up, the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, erected a magnificent giant wall.The Atacama desert is a north-south, a long strip of desert, from the Pac