PHOTO OF THE DAY December 11, 2004  

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Where Iceland
When 1998
Photographer Sisse Brimberg

The Hvitá River emerges from beneath solidified lava plates in Iceland.

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


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