PHOTO OF THE DAY April 27, 2005  

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Where Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii
When 1983
Photographer William Allen

"Sunrise bursts over Haleakala, Hawaii's legendary 'House of the Sun.' Eons of erosion shaped the 2.5-by-7.5-mile (4-by-12 kilometer) basin. Eruptions have strewed its floor with volcanic debris."

—Text from the National Geographic book Our Threatened Inheritance, 1984

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Our Threatened Inheritance, 1984)


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