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Kaikoura Krill, New Zealand, 1997

Just off the Kaikoura Peninsula, the ocean floor gives way to "an undersea canyon where currents mix and well up, producing a broth rich in nutrients. Drawn to the food are creatures great and small, from [these] tiny krill to the apex predator[s] ... the sperm whale and the giant squid."

(Text adapted from "Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Maria Stenzel