Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Surfer, Solitary Islands Marine Park, New South Wales, Australia

Oscar Dewhurst / Hoatzin (Ophisthocomus hoazin) perched on wooden bar overlooking oxbow lake. Manu National Park, Madre de Dios, Peru. September

Stefan Christmann / Cameraman Lindsay McCrae on ice overlooking Southern Ocean, filming for BBC Dynasties Penguin programme. Atka Bay, Antarctica. March 2017.

Oscar Dewhurst / Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) adult perched on the side of the Tyne Bridge, overlooking Newcastle and the Tyne. Newcastle, UK. July

Christophe Courteau / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) silverback sitting on boundary wall between Volcanoes National Park and a Potato crop, looking into valley. Area to be restored to forest. Rwanda.

Gavin Hellier / Timelapse overlooking Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2016. Hellier

Matthias Breiter / Tourist and icebergs, Ilulissat, Greenland

Erlend Haarberg / Photographer silhouetted on Mt Luottotjakka overlooking the Arjep Luottojekna and Nuortap glaciers at sunset, Sarek National Park, World Heritage Laponia, Swedish Lapland, Sweden, August 2013.

Anup Shah / Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii) adult male 'Frodo' aged 35 years portrait. Gombe National Park, Tanzania.

Richard Robinson / Blue shark (Prionace glauca) viewed from below, off the coast of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, February.

Markus Varesvuo / Black kite (Milvus migrans) flying and red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) on snow, Hokkaido, Japan, February.

Ben Cranke / Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) stood on ice floe, Hokkaido, Japan. February.