Vikidia:Image of the week/2016

This page displays all the images featured as "image of the week" on Vikidia:Main page during the year 2016.

Week 1 In a sled dog racing, the person (the musher) conducts his sled dogs (here huskies) by means of voice commands addressed to the lead dogs.	Week 2 The Airbus A380, here taking off from Stuttgart in Germany, is currently the world's largest passenger airplane.	Week 3 Heidi is a novel written by Johanna Spyri "for children and those who love children". It is now part of the Swiss culture. This drawing is an illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Week 4 Buddhist monks in front of the reflection pool at Angkor Wat, in Cambodia.	Week 5 A floating island on Lake Titicaca, in Peru	Week 6 Chinese New Year is celebrated with banquets, parades, decorations and fireworks. The Chinese "Year of the Monkey" starts on Monday 8 February 2016.
Week 7	Week 8	Week 9 Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco.
Week 10 The Encyclopædia Britannica (here the 3rd edition, dated 1797) is the oldest English language encyclopedia still being produced.	Week 11 Earth drawn to scale	Week 12 Desert fan palms in an oasis in Joshua Tree National Park (California, USA)
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Week 16 A brown pelican.	Week 17 A wild chicory flower.	Week 18 Alp horn players in Swiss mountains.
Week 19 The Peasant Wedding, painted in 1567 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.	Week 20 The dancing procession of Echternach, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, takes place every year on Pentecost Tuesday.	Week 21 A traditional go game board set.
Week 22 Mayan numbers from 0 to 19.	Week 23 A fog bow, kind of rainbow appearing in fog, photographed from the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 лет Победы (which translates as "50 Years of Victory") in the Arctic Ocean.	Week 24 Signed 170 years ago on 15 June 1846, the Oregon Treaty established the western part of the frontier between the United States and the British North America, hence Canada today.
Week 25 Corals on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.	Week 26 Ruins of the Apadana Palace in Persepolis (Iran).	Week 27 An aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
Week 28 The Eden Project is a major visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. It simulates diverse climates and environments, such as a rainforest and a Mediterranean environment.	Week 29 CSIRO's Parkes Observatory (New South Wales, Australia) features a 64 m radio telescope completed in 1961 and still in operation today. It played crucial roles during the Apollo missions, including the relay of television images broadcasted from Apollo 11 Moon landing on 20 July 1969.	Week 30 A barn owl (Tyto alba).
Week 31 The ancient theatre of Delphi.	Week 32 The La Trobe Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia).	Week 33 This athletics US team won women's 4x400m relay gold medal at the 2012 summer Olympics in London.
Week 34	Week 35 Farmhouse in Provence (1988), by Vincent Van Gogh.	Week 36
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Week 46	Week 47	Week 48 Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan, inspired by the Carnival of the Animals by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Week 49 MS Nautica leaving the harbour of Bordeaux and sailing under its new vertical-lift bridge, on september the 25th.	Week 50 The so-called "compound eyes" of a Robber Fly (Holcocephala fusca).	Week 51 A statue of a polar bear in Darcy's garden in Dijon, after François Pompon's model.
Week 52 Christmas time under the triumphal Arch called « Porte Guillaume », Darcy Square, at the entrance of the protected area of the old city of Dijon.