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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Shrinking Aral Sea

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Original - Animated map illustrating the extent of the shrinking of the Aral Sea 1960-2008
Reason
After watching the James bond film The World is not Enough I went snooping for the water bodies in the general region of the film, and eventually my curiosity lead me to the Aral Sea article. I had heard for some time that the sea was shrinking, but I did not realize that the shrinking was this bad until I had a look at this .gif file. After watching it I thought "wow", and then it dawned on me that "wow" could potentially mean FP, so thats why I am nominating the picture.
Articles this image appears in
Aral Sea, Aralkum
Creator
Images originates from commons, history says that one NordNordWest created the image and that it was modified by one Hk kng

Not promoted No quorum. --wadester16 06:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]