PHOTO OF THE DAY December 27, 2004  

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Where White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
When 1972
Photographer William Allen

"Shifting dunes of gypsum, sculpted by the wind, cover White Sands National Monument, New Mexico."

—From the National Geographic book Great American Deserts, 1972


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