Baffin Island, Canada, 1996

Photograph by Nick Caloyianis

The native Inuit people call the Arctic Bay Ikpiarjuk, meaning "the pocket," because the bay is nearly landlocked by hills.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Loango National Park, Gabon, Africa, 2003

Photograph by Michael K. Nichols

"Sun-burnished waters from a lagoon—after its banks suddenly burst—pour across sand flats toward the sea."

—From "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the land of the surfing hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine

 

Diamond Peak, Nevada, 1998

Photograph by Phil Schermeister

"Morning sun and overcast skies soften Diamond Peak on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. By midday skiers will swarm over the slopes of this popular winter resort."

—From the National Geographic book Range of Light: The Sierra Nevada, 1999

Border between Texas and Mexico, 1993

Photograph by Bruce Dale

A bolt of lightning makes a dramatic display in the Chisos Mountains, tucked into the "big bend" of the Rio Grande. The 801,000-acre (3,242-square kilometer) Big Bend National Park is complemented by Mexico's Santa Elena Canyon Protected Area, created in 1994.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Tex-Mex," February 1996, National Geographic magazine)

 

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Near Hohenschwangau, Bavaria, Germany, 1971

Photograph by George F. Mobley

"Commanding a view of the bluish-green Alpsee and girdled by dark forests, King Ludwig's fairy-tale marble castle Neuschwanstein rises from a lofty rock west of Hohenschwangau."

(Text and photograph from the National Geographic book The Alps, 1973)

Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia, 1995

Photograph by Sam Abell

A lone cow peers through a burned-out tree on a grassy paddock in Bermagui. Known primarily as a fishing town, Bermagui was the host of author Zane Grey, who wrote An American Angler in Australia based on his experiences sport-fishing along the Sapphire Coast.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Wild Shores of Australia, 1996)

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