Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Australia from space

Australia from space
[[File:Australia satellite plane.jpg|thumb|right|100000x260px|Original - Australia, as seen from space. A cropped version of NASA's Blue Marble.

Included in this image at top right are the Torres Strait Islands, below the island of New Guinea. A number of other outlying islands and territories of Australia are outside this image.]]
 * Reason:This image illustrates the articles in a way that is attractive and highly encyclopedic. Compares equally in quality to other such Featured Pictures, of which Sahara satellite is the most comparable.
 * Articles this image appears in:Australia, Geography of Australia
 * Creator:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center


 * Support as nominator --Mostlyharmless (talk) 07:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Yep, that's Australia. Staxringold talkcontribs 15:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Beautiful and thoroughly encyclopedic.  Durova  324 16:48, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Ronseal... Gazhiley (talk) 22:14, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Norfolk island is missing... Noodle snacks (talk) 11:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmmmmm. A picture that included all the outlying territories (recognised and defacto) would cover much of the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, as well as a very large slice of Antarctica. We could try that! Mostlyharmless (talk) 04:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. Though I'm not convinced of its EV in the article about Australia...sorry. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:12, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support even though it's merely a sloppy rendering of a classic Usenet signature: Spikebrennan (talk) 16:19, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

--jjron (talk) 12:15, 18 October 2009 (UTC)