Bright red crabs like this one number in the tens of millions here on Christmas Island, a territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean. It’s warm on the island this time of year, and these crabs are migrating to the sea, where they will mate and spawn. The event is quite a spectacle—onlookers will see rivers of crabs, thousands of them at a time climbing over fences and crossing roads on their journey, which attracts tourists to the remote destination. This isle itself was named by an English sea captain who discovered the destination on Christmas Day of 1643.
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Skaftafell, Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland
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International Polar Bear Day
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World Environment Day
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World Honey Bee Day
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National Love a Tree Day
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Provence blooms with lavender at Sénanque Abbey
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Holey moley–it’s National Doughnut Day!
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Keep calm and drive on (slowly)
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Kirkjufell, Iceland
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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Black Fell in England s Lake District
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Canada Day
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The last thing seen by Wile E. Coyote
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Freshwater plants in Aquário Natural, Brazil
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Carnival comes to Olinda
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World Space Week
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Mada’in Saleh archeological site in Saudi Arabia
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Happy Hobbit Day
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Welcome to the drainpipe of the Pacific
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Prague, Czech Republic
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Queen Elizabeth s Platinum Jubilee
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World Turtle Day
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Road-trip worthy attraction in the heartland
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International Womens Day
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
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