PHOTO OF THE DAY December 9, 2004  

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Where Cable Beach, Broome, Australia
When 1997
Photographer R. Ian Lloyd

Taking its name from the telegraph cable that connected the Australian city of Broome to the island of Java in Indonesia, Cable Beach is renowned for its beauty and surf.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Bloody Long Way Home: Australia by Bike," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)


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