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March 20, 2003
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Near the Altamaha River, Georgia
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1997
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Peter Essick
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A light fog floats through the live oak trees on Sapelo Island, a plantation site during the Altamaha River's 19th-century heyday.
According to a 1998 National Geographic magazine article, "The Altamaha pumps 100,000 gallons [328,000 liters] of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean every second, more than three trillion gallons annually. Its watershed, the third largest on the East Coast, shelters more than 125 rare species of flora and fauna."
(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "The Easy Ways of the Altamaha," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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