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Photographs, credits and licences

Every photograph on this site is a real image of the place it describes, used under a free licence from Wikimedia Commons. Each is listed below with its creator, source, licence and the changes we made.

Photographs licensed under CC BY-SA remain under that licence in their modified form here. We have resized all images and cropped where noted; we have not altered their content. Licences were checked on each file's source page on the date shown.

ImageSubject and locationCreator, source and licenceChanges
Aerial view of Georgetown on the Atlantic coast, with dense streets running to wharves along the brown water of the Demerara River estuaryAerial view of central Georgetown at the mouth of the Demerara River, with the waterfront wharves along the river bank
Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana, 2019-11-22
Dan Lundberg
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Cropped (top 30% of low cloud removed), resized and converted to WebP
The long, low floating Demerara Harbour Bridge running across the wide Demerara River towards flat coastal land and roadsThe original floating Demerara Harbour Bridge crossing the Demerara River, seen from an aircraft
Demerara River near Georgetown, Guyana, 2019-11-22
Dan Lundberg
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
The broad Essequibo River braiding around forested islands, with unbroken rainforest to the horizonAerial view of the Essequibo River and surrounding rainforest
Essequibo River, Guyana, 2019-11
Dan Lundberg
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
Industrial buildings and a smoking chimney of the Linden bauxite plant on the far bank of the Demerara RiverBauxite processing plant on the Demerara River at Linden
Linden, Upper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana, 2003-01-24
Jane Peters
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
An FPSO production vessel with a tall flare tower on the open Atlantic, with a second production vessel and a support ship on the horizonFloating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana
Stabroek Block, Atlantic Ocean offshore Guyana, 2025-03-27
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Dylan Kinee
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government)
Checked 28 October 2026
Cropped to the production vessels (a naval ship in the foreground of the original is excluded), resized and converted to WebP
A green combine harvester and a tractor towing a red trailer in a ripe rice field fringed by coconut palmsCombine harvester and tractor-trailer harvesting rice
Pomeroon-Supenaam region, Guyana (photo coordinates 7.149, -58.478), 2012-03-01
Marco Farouk Basir
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
Kaieteur Falls dropping into a deep forested gorge, framed by leaves at a trail lookoutKaieteur Falls seen from a lookout on the plateau trail
Kaieteur National Park, Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana, 2015-12
Dan Sloan
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
A guide seen from behind paddling a small boat up a narrow river lined with rainforestA local guide paddling a canoe on the Burro Burro River near Surama Eco-Lodge
Burro Burro River near Surama, North Rupununi, Guyana, 2014-02-06
David Stanley
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
Stabroek Market's iron clock tower and long market hall, with minibuses and traders' umbrellas in frontStabroek Market and its clock tower with the minibus park in front
Water Street, Georgetown, Guyana, 2015-12-03
Dan Sloan
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
Passengers stepping from a wooden landing onto a painted water taxi on the Demerara River in Georgetown, with more boats and a crane behindPassengers boarding a water taxi at a landing on the Demerara River in Georgetown
Georgetown waterfront, Demerara River, Guyana (coordinates on the source page), 2025-02-12
John Cray
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Checked 30 October 2026
Cropped to 3:2 (part of the sky removed), resized and converted to WebP
A four-storey concrete office building with louvred windows on a Georgetown street corner, with parked cars and overhead cablesOffice building and street in central Georgetown
Central Georgetown, Guyana, 2015-12-03
Dan Sloan
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
The ornate 1887 timber-framed High Court building in Georgetown with a statue in front and a sign reading The Supreme Court of JudicatureThe Supreme Court of Judicature (High Court) building in Georgetown
Georgetown, Guyana, 2019-11-21
Dan Lundberg
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
Aerial view of a runway and terminal buildings among green land on the coast, with the suburbs of Georgetown beyondAerial view of the Eugene F. Correia International Airport (Ogle) with Georgetown in the background
Ogle, East Coast Demerara, Guyana, 2023-07-09
Caribiana
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Checked 28 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
Aerial view of rainforest cut by a long strip of cleared ground and muddy tailings ponds left by alluvial gold miningAerial view of an alluvial gold-mining area in Guyana's forested interior, with tailings ponds and cleared ground along a valley
Interior of Guyana (exact location not stated by the source), 2015-12-10
Dan Sloan
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 29 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
A row of blue containerised generator units behind a fence, with overhead power lines along the road and an exhaust plumeA power station of containerised generating units beside a road, with overhead electricity lines, at Linden
Linden, Upper Demerara-Berbice (photo coordinates 6.0139, -58.2821), 2011-04-06
Marco Farouk Basir
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Checked 30 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP
A timber wharf at dusk with people walking, small boats moored alongside and a lit ferry beyondWooden wharf with moored boats and a ferry at dusk, Parika
Parika, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (as stated by the source), 2015-12-09
Dan Sloan
Original file on Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Checked 30 October 2026
Resized and converted to WebP