PHOTO OF THE DAY December 14, 2004  

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Where Queensland, Australia
When 1997
Photographer R. Ian Lloyd

A herd of sheep grazes in a pasture in Queensland. Australia is the world's largest wool producing country, accounting for 30 percent of the world market.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Bloody Long Way Home: Australia by Bike," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)


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