PHOTO OF THE DAY December 19, 2004  

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Where East Anacapa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California
When 1983
Photographer James P. Blair

On an island that has a Chumash Indian name meaning "mirage," the sweeping view from Inspiration Point is no illusion.

—From the National Geographic book Our Threatened Inheritance, 1984


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