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Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1990

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With over 4,650 miles (7,500 kilometers) of coastline, the sea is a large part of life in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in the National Geographic book Canada's Incredible Coast, 1991)

Photograph by James P. Blair

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