PHOTO OF THE DAY September 30, 2004  

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Where Hvalfjordur, Iceland
When 1998
Photographer Sisse Brimberg

A house shelters its occupants from winter on the coastline in Hvalfjoördur, which means "fjord of the whales."

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In Search of the Vikings," May 2000, National Geographic magazine)

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