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Polar Bear Swim, Wager Bay, Canada, 1996

"Visitors bag a film trophy in Wager Bay. When native Inuit opened a lodge here in 1987, they decided to cater to ecotourists rather than to hunters."

—From "Polar Bears: Stalkers of the High Arctic," January 1998, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Flip Nicklin

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