1397. The Fakahatchee Strand encompasses 75,000 acres (30,352.5 hectares) of wilderness that includes a wide variety of flora and fauna including deer. Deer is the preferred food of the Florida panther, which can also be found in the area. <BR>　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In Big Cypress Country," March 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)<BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/T0496_5.jpg">
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1398. "The garb worn by Nita Solanki, an Untouchable [a member of the lowest Hindu castes] bride in Gujarat, is perhaps the finest she will ever put on." <BR>　　—From "Untouchable," June 2003, National Geographic magazine <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/NGM2003_06p21.jpg">
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　1399. "Sheer 100-foot (30-meter) cliffs of eroded ash, sliced by the Ukak River, rise before Mount Katolinat in Katmai. A nearby eruption in 1912 covered the area with up to 700 feet (215 meters) of volcanic debris." <BR>　　桭rom the National Geographic book Alaska, 1969 <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/01086_50009.jpg">
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　1400."Like a late winter storm off the peaks, snow geese settle onto stubbled grain fields in early April. As many as 300,000 geese and 10,000 tundra swans follow the Rocky Mountain Front during their seasonal journeys north and south." <BR>　　桭rom the National Geographic book Yellowstone to Yukon, 2000 <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/BK_yellowstonetoyukonp14-5.jpg">
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