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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 13, 2004  

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Where Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica
When 1997
Photographer Maria Stenzel

The Onyx River flows through one of Antarctica's dry valleys, terrain so blasted by fierce winds that no snow, precipitation, or ice come to rest there.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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