<P>1698. Fiji Islands, Melanesia, <BR>　　Photograph by James L. Stanfield<BR>　　揈vening calm ushers a fishing boat past a reef off Viti Levu, largest of 300-plus islands in this South Pacific success story [Fiji]. Yet tranquil surfaces cannot mask a troubling gulf between native Fijians and citizens of Indian origin.? <BR>　　<BR>　　桭rom "The Two Worlds of Fiji," October 1995, National Geographic magazine RELATED <BR>　　Adventure and Exploration <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/06130_50036.jpg"><BR>
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<P>1698. Fiji Islands, Melanesia, <BR>　　Photograph by James L. Stanfield<BR>　　揈vening calm ushers a fishing boat past a reef off Viti Levu, largest of 300-plus islands in this South Pacific success story [Fiji]. Yet tranquil surfaces cannot mask a troubling gulf between native Fijians and citizens of Indian origin.? <BR>　　<BR>　　桭rom "The Two Worlds of Fiji," October 1995, National Geographic magazine RELATED <BR>　　Adventure and Exploration <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/06130_50036.jpg"><BR>
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1699. Vermont, 1997<BR>　　Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita<BR>　　A hillside of trees provides a brightly-colored backdrop for a Vermont barn. Amid ancient mountains gentled by time, farm families work the same tilted acres their ancestors did. <BR>　　This is the foliage season, nature's last hurrah before winter, when the state's lush cover of deciduous trees turns in its flashiest performance. <BR>　　<BR>　　(Text adapted from "Leaves of Autumn: A Vermont Sampler," Autumn 1984, National Geographic Traveler magazine) <BR>　　<BR>　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vermont: Suite of Seasons," September 1998, National Geographic magazine) <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/06485_49.jpg"><BR>
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　1700. Inishmore Island, Aran Islands, Ireland, 1993<BR>　　Photograph by Sam Abell<BR>　　揜ugged as the people who settled here more than 3,000 years ago, the sea-chiseled limestone bluffs of Inishmore rise 300 feet above the Atlantic. Inland, hundreds of miles of stone walls ring thin-soiled fields where islanders toil in a land known for ci鷑as gan uaigneas, Gaelic for 憅uietness without loneliness.挃 <BR>　　?Text from "The Aran Islands: Ancient Hearts Modern Minds," April 1996, National Geographic magazine<BR>　　<BR>　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine) <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/06027_1.jpg"><BR>
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1684. "Southern Otters, considered extinct by 1900, reappeared near Monterey in 1938. Today federal, state, and international laws protect the furbearers." <BR>　　(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Return of the Sea Otter," October, 1971, National Geographic magazine) <BR>　　<BR>wo !

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