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odditiesoflife:

The Astonishing Annual Red Crab Migration

Named one of the planet’s most breathtaking migrations, the Christmas Island red crab exodus is a natural phenomenon that continues to astonish.

Making it onto CNN Travel’s recent list of the “10 most spectacular wildlife migrations,” the island’s annual red crab migration is an astounding event that involves the movement of millions of vividly colored crabs as they leave their in-land homes to breed and release eggs into the sea.

An Australian territory, Christmas Island lies some 2,600 kilometers north-west of Perth in the middle of the Indian Ocean. While just 1,500 people live there, it is home to an estimated 120 million crabs.

One of my favorite natural phenomenons!

voristrip:

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adrifts:

I just found and loved this amazing witty print campaign by Like Minded Studio created for the Australian documentary “Immigration Nation” using fabulous typography work to ironically expose the widespread discrimination of immigration in the Commonwealth. 

streeter:

Sometimes you just gotta make a meme

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