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May 22, 2007

 

Photo: Border Village

Border Village, Australia, 1997

Photograph by R. Ian Lloyd

The Rooey II statue welcomes visitors to Border Village, a town between Western and Southern Australia. This cheerful marsupial is the gateway to the nearby Great Australian Bight, the famous 328-foot-high (100-meter-high) cliffs soaring over the Indian Ocean.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Australia by Bike," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

 

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