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Cape York Sunset, Queensland, Australia, 1995

Photo: Cape York Sunset

A vibrant sunset reflects Australia's stunning landscape. Cape York Peninsula is inhabited by 14,000 people and nearly 7,000 are Aboriginal. Today, ownership of almost a third of the land is in dispute between its original inhabitants and by those who came later.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cape York Peninsula," June 1996, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Sam Abell

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