PHOTO OF THE DAY October 16, 2004  

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Where Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia
When 1995
Photographer Sam Abell

Kangaroos enjoy the grassland in Wilsons Promontory National Park, located at the southernmost point of Australia's mainland. This granite peninsula is 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of Melbourne.

(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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