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Hawaii, 1996
Photograph by Jim Richardson
A time-exposed photograph turns car headlights into luminous trails winding through the Garden of the Gods on Hawaii's Lanai Island.
In the foreground sits a cairn of red-brown volcanic stones, likely built by tourists. Locals usually dismantle the visitors' handiwork though.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiding Away in Lanai," January/February 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Antarctica, 2006
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
A leopard seal swims in turquoise waters just below the surface as a jagged Antarctic ice floe looms in the background.
The leopard seal, dubbed a "fierce, handsome brute" by a member of the famed 1914 Shackleton expedition, is a top Antarctic predator: fast, agile, voracious, and large, reaching some 12 feet (4 meters) in length and weighing more than a thousand pounds (450 kilograms).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Deadly Beauty," November 2006, National Geographic magazine)
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Chile, 2003
Photograph by Joel Sartore
Tourists career down a mountainous sand dune in the aptly named Valley of the Moon region of Chile's Atacama Desert.
This stark landscape between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains is considered the driest place on Earth, and some areas here have not received a drop of rain in hundreds of years. The terrain is so arid and forbidding, scientists came here to test the prototype for a rover destined for Mars.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Driest Place on Earth," August 2003, National Geographic magazine)
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New York, 1990
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
A street artist arranges a blanket of pennies on a Broadway sidewalk, an appropriate commentary for a street described by one talent agent as "propelled by one thing: money."
Originally an Indian path, Broadway runs about 17 miles (26 kilometers), from the tip of Manhattan Island to the Bronx, intersecting some of New York City's most famed avenues.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Broadway: Street of Dreams," September 1990, National Geographic magazine)
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Canada, 1985
Photograph by George F. Mobley
Frost-flecked tundra pools dot the landscape of Canada's North Yukon National Park. Treeless regions found in and around the Arctic, tundras are among Earth's coldest, harshest biomes. Permafrost, cold, wind, and scant rainfall make it difficult for most plants and animals to survive here.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kluane: Canada's Icy Wilderness Park," November 1985, National Geographic magazine)
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Location Unknown, 1996
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
A close-up of a mounted blue morpho butterfly shows its unique iridescent sheen. These mesmerizing insects, indigenous to the rain forests of Central and South America, get their cobalt hue not from pigment but from the thousands of semitransparent scales that filter blue from the visible spectrum and radiate it out from the wings.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Quest for Color," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Hawaii, 1982
Photograph by Steve Raymer
A replica of a Polynesian outrigger canoe sits on a beach in Hawaii's Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park.
These handcrafted vessels, hewn from a single log and often in excess of 50 feet (15 meters) in length, likely carried the first Polynesians to the Hawaiian Islands more than 1,200 years ago.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kamehameha: Hawaii's Warrior King," November 1983, National Geographic magazine)
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South Africa, 2002
Photograph by Mattias Klum
A close-up of meerkat in the Kalahari Desert shows its sturdy, rakelike claws, an important adaptation for their tunneling lifestyle. Meerkats are master excavators, frequently digging themselves entirely out of sight in pursuit of potential meals, which include beetles, scorpions, insect larvae, and small reptiles.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Meerkats Stand Tall," September 2002, National Geographic magazine)
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Grand Staircase-Escalante Outpost, Utah, 1999
Photograph by Len Jenshel
Striated red-rock mountains capped by a piercingly blue sky overlook a weather-beaten outpost in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Part of southern Utah's "red rock country," Grand Staircase-Escalante was named a national monument in 1996, adding a 1.9-million-acre (768,903-hectare) slice of parched, mineral-rich wilderness to U.S. protected lands.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Celebrating Canyon Country," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Breaking Surf, Bora-Bora, French Polynesia, 1997
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
Lacy breakers lap the coral reef that rings Bora-Bora, an ancient sunken volcano 165 miles (266 kilometers) northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia's Society Islands. Surrounded by sugar-white beaches, an electric-blue lagoon, and some of the clearest water on the planet, Bora-Bora is home to hundreds of species of tropical fish. Not surprisingly, it's one of the world's top spots for divers.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
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Flooded Alley, India, 2007
Photograph by John Stanmeyer
A man sloshes through a Kolkata (Calcutta) alley full of water turned purple from dying clothes. Standing water like this gives malarial mosquitoes the perfect place to breed. Pushed out of northern temperate zones by DDT spraying and the draining of wetlands half a century ago, malaria remains entrenched in the humid tropics of Asia. Monsoon rains and poor drainage enable the disease to thrive in many Indian cities.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Malaria: Bedlam in the Blood," July 2007, National Geographic magazine)
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Lioness at Borehole, South Africa, 1996
Photograph by Chris Johns
A lioness drinks from a rock-ringed borehole in Kalahari-Gemsbok National Park, a 3,700-square-mile (9,600-square-kilometer) slice of desert in South Africa's Northern Cape Province. Lions had all but disappeared from South Africa by the turn of the 20th century due to unbridled hunting, but the seeds of a remarkable comeback were planted in the 1890s with the country's first game reserves.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Place for Parks in the New South Africa," July 1996, National Geographic magazine)
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Ténéré Paraglider, Niger, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz
A paraglider casts a shadow over the dunes of Niger's Ténéré desert. A south-central tract of the Sahara, the 150,000-square-mile (400,000-square-kilometer) Ténéré is one of Africa's most forbidding regions. Hot, dusty harmattan winds blow across the bone-dry desert, which receives an annual rainfall of about 1 inch (25 millimeters).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Journey to the Heart of the Sahara," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Ilha Nova, Faial Island, Azores
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson
Sea water instantly turns to super-heated steam as it seeps into the active submarine volcano known as Ilha Nova, or "new island." Months after the volcano first erupted on September 27, 1957, torrential rains from the condensing steam continued to torment the villagers living near the new volcano.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A New Volcano Bursts from the Atlantic," June 1958, National Geographic magazine)
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Milford Mariner, New Zealand, 2001
Photograph by David McLain
The Milford Mariner, a replica of a traditional New Zealand coastal trading scow, sails through a blue-gray fog in Milford Sound.
The sound, part of Fiordland National Park on the southwest coast of New Zealand's South Island, is surrounded by towering, jagged peaks strewn with waterfalls. The Mariner takes tours right up to (and sometimes underneath) the frigid cascades.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Action New Zealand: 12 Days & 12 Adventures on the South Island," May/June 2002, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Aurora Borealis, Arctic Circle, 2002
Photograph by Peter Essick
A leggy evergreen looms over a stretch of Arctic boreal forest as light from the aurora borealis paints the night sky emerald green.
These natural fireworks shows, also called the northern lights, occur when solar wind—electrically charged particles blasted from the sun—collides with atoms in the upper atmosphere over the Earth's magnetic poles.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Boreal: The Great Northern Forest," June 2002, National Geographic magazine)
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White Pond Lilies and Canoe, Maine, 2000
Photograph by Lynn Johnson
A tangle of white pond lilies sits in the front of a canoe in a Maine pond. Pond lily roots are used in traditional medicines to treat a range of disorders, including skin wounds and inflammation, both internal and external.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nature's Rx," April 2000, National Geographic magazine)
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Frog on Fern, São Paulo, Brazil, 2001
Photograph by George Grall
A white-handed tree frog stares at the camera from its perch on a fern in São Paulo, Brazil. There are more than 730 amphibian species in Brazil, 467 of which are endemic to the region.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fragile World of Frogs," May 2001, National Geographic magazine)
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City Charter and Wax Seal, Krakow, Poland, 2002
Photograph by Les Stone
Poland's capital since 1038, Krakow, the bustling trade center of Slavonic Europe, entered its golden age in the 15th century, when this historic charter was sealed. Under the 45-year reign of King Casimir IV, Poland emerged as one of Europe's greatest powers and a thriving cultural center. Scholars (including Copernicus), architects, and artists contributed to Krakow's magnificent renaissance.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bohemian Rhapsody," July/August 2002, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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