By Jamie Smith
Our planet is a beautiful place and to celebrate World Earth Day here is a selection of some of the best landscapes in the universe.
From Iceland’s extreme ice caves to the towering waterfalls of Brazil the stunning images portray all that is good about our wonderful planet.
Photographers went to extremes to get the perfect shot by venturing inside a volcano, in the South Pacific and get up close to a tornado, in Kansas, USA.
PIC BY SKARPHEDINN THRAINSSON / CATERS NEWS Sigurdur William Brynjarsson stands in the mouth of an ice cave as Icelands Vatnajokull glacier is bathed in an orange glow.
Volcanic eruptions around Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland by Skarphedinn Thrainsson, 39, from Reykjavik, Iceland.
PIC BY Malek Hammoud Tuwaijri / Caters News
A woman ‘holding’ the sun in the Saudi shallows.
PIC FROM ARNAR KRISTJANSSON / CATERS NEWS
Italian Simona, 40, and Icelandic Arnar, 35 against the incredible Icelandic scenery.
MANDATORY BYLINE PIC BY CAINE DELACY/ CATERS NEWS
Mika Woyda surrounded by the school of Big-eye trevally off the coast of Cabo Pulmo, Mexico.
PIC BY BRUNO GRACIANO / CATERS NEWS
Riginaldo Gomes highlining above the Waterfall of Smoke, Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
PIC BY BRADLEY WHITE / CATERS NEWS
Geoff Mackley inside the heart of the Marum Volcano, on the island of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific.
PIC BY CHRISTIAN ADAM FERNANDEZ / CATERS NEWS
An unknown man in a headlamp on the edge of Glacier Point in Yosemite stares at the incredible view.
PIC BY ROBERT GODWIN / CATERS NEWS
Toby Segar performs a backflip 700m up on Trolltunga, Norway.
MANDATORY BYLINE PIC FROM O CHUL KWON /CATERS NEWS
The breath-taking moment when the otherworldly light beams of the Aurora Borealis sweep across the skyline at the Aurora Village in Yellowknife, Canada. With its flat geographical landscape and clear weather conditions, the tipi laden village boasts the highest percentage of Aurora sightings in the world.
Pic from Anushka Eranga / Caters News
Anushka Eranga stands amongst the sand dunes in Dubai.
PIC BY MIKE MEZEUL II/ CATERS NEWS
Elisabeth Brentano stands in front of a raging tornado in Kansas, USA.
Pic by Paul Zizka/Caters News
Jesse Milner climbs an Iceberg in Iceland
HISTORY FANATIC VISITS SECRET REMOTE LOCATIONS IN OVER 50 COUNTRIES TAKING EERIE IMAGES OF ABANDONED MILITARY EQUIPMENT
IMPRESSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LUCKY WHALE WATCHERS GETTING CLOSE TO THE HUGE ANIMALS
STUNNING PICTURES SHOW THE MILKY WAY LIGHTING UP STONE HENGE AT NIGHT
WATCH AS SEA LIONS LOOK AT THEIR REFLECTIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME
WHALE WE WEREN’T EXPECTING THAT! WHALE WATCHERS BLOWN AWAY AS FOUR HUGE HUMPBACKS FEAST ON THE FISH HIDING UNDERNEATH THEIR BOAT
