PHOTO OF THE DAY October 3, 2004  

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Where Kirkpatrick Point, Kangaroo Island, Australia
When 1995
Photographer Sam Abell

The "Remarkable Rocks" are just that: huge, wind-and-rain-sculpted boulders precariously balanced on a gigantic granite dome.

(Text adapted from the National Geographic book Wild Shores of Australia, 1996.)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Wild Shores of Australia, 1996.)


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