PHOTO OF THE DAY January 7, 2005  

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Where Wilpena Pound, South Australia
When 1997
Photographer O. Louis Mazzatenta

An ancient rock formation, Wilpena Pound is the best known attribute of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Its bowl-like structure creates a natural amphitheater and has been said to resemble a hand and twisted fingers.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Rise of Life on Earth—Life Grows Up," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)


Photo gallery: Sydney, Australia
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