PHOTO OF THE DAY June 15, 2005  

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Where Baffin Island, Canada
When 1996
Photographer Nick Caloyianis

The native Inuit people call the Arctic Bay Ikpiarjuk, meaning "the pocket," because the bay is nearly landlocked by hills.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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