PHOTO OF THE DAY December 3, 2005  

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Where Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
When 1998
Photographer Gordon Wiltsie

Baffin Island is the fifth largest island in the world. Mountain ranges here measure over 8,000 feet (2,440 meters) high. However, the Inuit peoples who inhabit the island generally live at coastal trading posts.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hitting the Wall: First Ascent of a Baffin Island Peak," January 1999, National Geographic magazine)


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