Images Dated 15th July 2014

Lions mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)

Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), largest of all jellyfish, up to 2 m diameter. The margin of the bell is divided into eight lobes, and there are eight groups of about 100 tentacles each on the underside of its umbrella. It hunts by sinking slowly with its tentacles spread over a prey which it then stuns with its nematocysts. The tentacles can be 30 m or longer, the record being 37 m. Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

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Indian Head at the entrance to the Hunter River

Indian Head at the entrance to the Hunter River, with the Mitchell Plateau beyond, from the air. Mitchell Plateau, Kimberley region, Western Australia

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Coral Bay beach

Coral Bay beach, a wilderness beach showing layers of sedimentary rock, resistant ironstone rocks, intertidal rocky reef platforms, bauxite-rich red subsoil and dominant eucalypt forest vegetation. Garig Ganuk Barlu National Park, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia

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