Stunning entries for National Geographic's photo contest revealed

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Entries are still pouring in for National Geographic's 2016 Nature Photographer of the Year contest. And with only a week to go, the competition is certainly heating up. Among the new submissions are a triumphant Alaskan bear clamping its jaws into the flesh of a leaping salmon, a curious sea turtle lingering beneath the surface in Hawaii, and a handful of sweeping landscapes from Japan, Antarctica and beyond.

The competition is accepting entries until November 4, across four categories: Landscape, Environmental Issues, Action and Animal Portraits.

And the lucky grand-prize winner will receive a ten-day trip for two to the Galápagos with National Geographic Expeditions.

As the deadline approaches, MailOnline Travel has rounded up a selection of breathtaking photos submitted to the latest round.
 

The Shiraito no Taki Falls located in the southwestern foothills of Mount Fuji, Japan, shot by Masai Okeda - part of a new selection of entries from the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest
 

An Alaskan brown bear capturing a chum salmon at the McNeil River Game Sanctuary in late July - a close encounter the photographer Mona W described as a 'truly life changing experience'
 

A trio of delightful meerkats survey the vast Makgadikgadi Pans in the Kalahari, Botswana, their paws poised in front of them, shot by Matt Engelmann
 
'Snow ghosts' form atop the trees set across files of forest in Lapland, a magical region tucked away in northernmost Finland, shot by Pierre Destribats
 
A green sea turtle at the surface off the coast of Oahu in Hawaai, a tiny stream of bubbles emerging from its curved beak, shot by Brett Monroe Garner
 
A fox dances through a storm of silvery raindrops, its rugged fur illuminated and forming an outline around its slender figure, shot by Vladislav Kamenski
 
Rain clouds form over the Atacama Desert in Chile, the most arid desert in the world - some climate experts say that its central regions haven't seen rain for up to 4,000 years, shot by Victor Lima
 
An adelie penguin leaping from one ice floe to another at Brown Bluff on the Antarctic Peninsula, surveyed by three friends and shot by Nick Dale
 

An aerial photo taken from a small plane captures a blue-tinged frozen valley at Mount Cook in New Zealand during winter, shot by Jeffry Lim
 

The snowcapped Chugach Mountain Range in Matanuska, Alaska, taken early on a crisp autumn morning with pink clouds streaking the icy sky, shot by Nathaniel Gonzales
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