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Forget-Me-Nots, Canada, 1997

"Where glaciers meet mountains in Canada's Yukon Territory, some peaks jut from the ice like islands in a frozen sea. These crags, called nunataks, may appear barren, but biologist David Hik ... has discovered that collectively they harbor hundreds of species, [like these] delicate alpine forget-me-nots. ..."

—From "Nunataks," December 1998, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Robert Clark