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PHOTO OF THE DAY August 5, 2003  

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Where Juan de Fuca Strait, Washington
When 1983
Photographer Sam Abell

"The Strait of Juan de Fuca [shown here with the sailing ship Alcyone] cuts a broad, blue-green channel nearly a hundred miles [161 kilometers] to the Pacific. It is a magnificent waterway, 14 miles [22.5 kilometers] wide at the mouth and deep enough to allow the U.S. Navy's big Trident submarines easy access to their ... base on the Hood Canal."

—Text from "The Olympic Peninsula," May 1984, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Olympic Peninsula," May 1984, National Geographic magazine)

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