Downtown Suva, Viti Levu Island, Republic of Fiji
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
The largest city between Honolulu and Auckland, Suva—the capital of the Republic of Fiji—dazzles with cosmopolitan offices, shops, and entertainment. With 180,000 residents in its metropolitan area, the city wraps around a superb deepwater harbor on the island of Viti Levu. By sea and air, Fiji serves as a hub linking Pacific nations.
(Photo shot on assignment for “Two Worlds of Fiji,” October 1995, National Geographic magazine)
Desert of Death, Afghanistan
Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie
Like drifting clouds, hilltops mirrored in a mirage appear to float behind a Land Rover. The illusion is created by heat waves shimmering in the 120-degree (49-degree-Celsius) temperatures of the Dasht-i-Margo—Afghanistan’s so-called “Desert of Death.”
(Photo shot on assignment for “Afghanistan—Crossroad of Conquerors,” September 1968, National Geographic magazine)
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Dock and Palm Trees, Tahiti
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
A dock juts out to a small palm island, surrounded by the jewel-blue waters of Tahiti. Tahiti is just one of 118 islands and atolls that make up French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous territory of France. With its claim here and on other Pacific territories, France is the second largest presence (after the United States) in the Pacific.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Charting a New Course—French Polynesia,” June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
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Bubble Eye Goldfish, United States
Photograph by Paul A. Zahl
The extraordinary bubble eye wears marble-size, fluid-filled eye sacs like water wings. The breed is only one in a gallery of bizarre variations of the common goldfish. Developed over ten centuries by Asian breeders, this living art of the East today attracts growing numbers of Western aquarists.
(Photo shot on assignment for “Those Outlandish Goldfish!” April 1973, National Geographic magazine)
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Grazing Bison, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Photograph by George F. Mobley
Stately American bison graze beneath gold-lined clouds in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. Established in 1905, the refuge now shelters roughly 600 bison. Excess animals are sold live at public auction every October.
(Photo shot on assignment for the National Geographic book The Great Southwest, 1980)
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