Guinea-Bissau coast

GUINEA-BISSAU COAST: Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa. Complex patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean. Image taken by Landsat 7 on December 1, 2000.
April 8, 2011
CreditImage and caption courtesy of the Our Earth as Art gallery. Credit: USGS/NASA/Landsat 7.
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Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa. Complex patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean. Image taken by Landsat 7 on December 1, 2000.