Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset 2
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Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset 2

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm posting a series of four shots of the I took from Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu.

Today's is a tighter shot. The sun is already descending below the horizon and appears distorted because of atmospheric refraction.

In the mid-ground you can clearly make out the coastline at Kota Kinabalu, some 37 miles (60 km) distant from Laban Rata. The haze is too strong to make out the features of the town but the airport lies just to the left of the promontory in the middle of the photo. On the promontory sits the Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa where I would be relaxing less than 24 hours later.

On the right of the photo you can see the southern shore of Pulau Gaya and to its south (left in the photo) Pulau Manukan and its two close un-named (on Google Earth) islands.

The sun starts to dip below the horizon of the South China Sea in this photo taken in 1989 from Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu. On the right you can make out the island of Pulau Gaya and the three smaller islands of Pulau Manukan just to the south (left). On the shoreline lies the town of Kota Kinabalu invisible in the haze. The coast is some 40 miles (60 km) distant from my shooting location.
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