PHOTO OF THE DAY August 13, 2005  

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Where New South Wales, Australia
When 1968
Photographer Winfield Parks

A mob of Merino sheep grazes on Brian Thompson's 9,978-acre (4,038-hectare) ranch in New South Wales, Australia. Five hands and their dogs help Thompson manage 14,000 sheep and 800 cattle.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic Book Australia, 1968)


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