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January 22, 2008

 

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Grazing Sheep, Denmark, 1998

Photograph by Bob Krist

Puffy clouds and grazing sheep make a postcard-perfect scene in Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. A craggy projection of northern Europe, the Jutland Peninsula is an 11,496-square-mile (29,775-square-kilometer) spread of land that makes up continental Denmark. The generally low-lying, flood-prone peninsula was named after a Germanic tribe, the Jutes.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Danish Light," July/August 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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