           National Geographic Photo of the Day: Water Lilies

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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, 1980 Photograph by
Richard Perry Water lilies flourish in the tea-tinted bogs of
Okefenokee Swamp. The swamp covers an area in southeast Georgia that is
about half the size of Rhode Island. Okefenokee is an Anglicization of
an American Indian word meaning "trembling earth" and describes the
soft, spongy peat moss that gives an unstable feel to the swamp&#039s
drier areas.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not
published in, the National Geographic book Wilderness Challenge, 1980)
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