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125 Years of National Geographic

 

The world famous scientific and geographic National Geographic magazine celebrated its 125 years, it was founded in 1888. Today, the publication read by over 40 million people in 26 languages around the world.

1. 1909,  the North Pole

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2. Photographer washing film with pictures in the melt water, Alaska, 1909

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3. The man in the tent in Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes, 1912

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4. Editor of National Geographic Gilbert H. Grosvenor, spent night under a giant tree - Sequoia, during his first trip to California in 1915

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5. Afghanistan, 1931. The author of this picture was surprised that, despite the long exposure nobody blinked

 

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6. U.S. researchers A. Stevens and A. Anderson on stratospheric Explorer-2, reached a height of 22,066 meters. It was a record high for the next 21 years. 1935

 

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7. In 1938, during an expedition in the Mexican state of Veracruz were found huge stone heads that showed the ancient Olmec civilization

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8. Journalist of National Geographic, 1988

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9. Thomas Abercrombie - the first photographer of National Geographic, who reached the South Pole, 1957

 

 

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10. Paleontologist of National Geographic with his family at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

 

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11. 1964, the reserve in Tanzania

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12. The first American team stormed Mount Everest, 1963

 

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13. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969

 

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14. Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic, 1991

 

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15. Photoof  tiger made by using camera traps, in 1995

 

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16. The found mummy, known as the "Ice Maiden"

 

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19. National Geographic journalists mount the camera on the back of the penguin to shoot film research

 

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20. Sunset in the National Forest Gifford Pinchot, USA., 2009

 

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21. Lion in Queen Elizabeth Park in Uganda

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