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MozambiqueA fisherman prods his boat along with a pole.
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Trinidad and Tobago, 1998In the dual-island republic, Trinidad is often seen as the mother island. Stepmother [of Trinidad and Tobago], actually. In 1889, the British attached Tobago to nearby Trinidad as a way to cope with a particularly messy bankruptcy: A London financial company had failed, putting most of Tobago's sugar plantations out of business and destroying the local economy. Since joint independence in 1962, Tobago has been unified with Trinidad.
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Denmark, 1997Poppies bloom next to a lichen-covered seawall in the handsome and civilized country of Denmark. A land of five and a quarter million souls, Denmark is sandwiched between the North Sea and the Baltic, just north of Germany.
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Atlantic Ocean off the Coast of Nova ScotiaAbout 235 miles (378 kilometers) east of Halifax, the ocean floor drops away. Nicknamed The Gully, this place is more like a drowned Grand Canyon, measuring a dozen miles (19 kilometers) across and, in places, a mile (1.6 kilometers) straight down to the bottom. These deep waters are home to the immense—and immensely curious—bottlenose whales, whom scientists believe to be the deepest divers of all ocean mammals.
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Loango National Park, GabonSun-burnished waters from a lagoon—after its banks suddenly burst—pour across sand flats toward the sea.
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Kaleidoscope Ridge, ArizonaRising and falling in sinuous curves, sandstone formations epitomize the beauty and solitude of the Southwest's unspoiled lands.
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Svalbard Archipelago, NorwayA bearded seal relaxes near the edge of an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean near Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago. These seals, which are rarely found in groups, spend most of their time in the water. Even at one week old, bearded seal pups can dive for five full minutes to depths of 250 feet (76 meters).
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San Diego, CaliforniaNighttime is the right time to dine at the San Diego Pier Café, where first-rate seafood complements a breathtaking view of San Diego Bay and the illuminated San Diego-Coronado Bridge.
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Svalbard Archipelago, NorwayA bearded seal relaxes near the edge of an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean near Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago. These seals, which are rarely found in groups, spend most of their time in the water. Even at one week old, bearded seal pups can dive for five full minutes to depths of 250 feet (76 meters).May 31, 2007
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Near Kairouan, TunisiaA farm boy in no particular hurry allows his donkey to browse on wild poppies as they shamble along toward field work near Kairouan, a city holy to Muslims.May 31, 2007
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South Georgia IslandAn ebony mountain peak rises from a glacier on South Georgia Island. This forbidding landscape in the frigid South Atlantic was first traversed in 1916 by the famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and two other members of his ill-fated Antarctic expedition.May 31, 2007
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Great Skellig Island, IrelandA thousand-year-old headstone stands next to the ruins of an ancient church on Great Skellig Island, off the southwest coast of Ireland. Between the sixth and ninth centuries, the Celtic Christian church spread through Ireland, and the remains of the original monasteries have been preserved on islands like these of Kerry County.May 31, 2007
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