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PHOTO OF THE DAY March 13, 2004  

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Where South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Fortuna Bay sits between craggy peaks and glaciers on South Georgia. In 1916 Ernest Shackleton and his men trekked by this stretch of water toward the island's whaling stations, where they found salvation after being stranded in Antarctica for nearly two years.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Shackleton: Epic of Survival," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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