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March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012
Oil Tanker, Persian Gulf
Photograph by Thomas P. Peschak, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
A relic of the Iran-Iraq war, this oil tanker was scuttled near the Kuwait-Iraq border on Saddam Hussein’s orders, to block access by sea to southern Iraq. Kuwaiti authorities are reluctant to remove the vessel for fear of damaging the wetlands of nearby Bubiyan Island, an important fish nursery and seabird breeding ground.
See more pictures from the March 2012 feature story "The Seas of Arabia."
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