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Dry Valleys
Photo: Snow and ice collect at higher elevations but the valleys are as dry as the Gobi desert
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The windswept ice of Victoria Land in Antarctica stretches for hundreds of desolate miles. This area receives less precipitation than most of the world's hot deserts.
Photograph by Maria Stenzel

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