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January 30, 2004

Perth Skyline, Perth, Australia, 1999

Photograph by Sam Abell

"The lights of the world's loneliest city shimmer to life as the last of the sun's rays recede over the Indian Ocean. Separated by 2,000 miles [3,219 kilometers] of desert and mountains from Australia's eastern cities, Perth evokes a frontier feeling—a sense that the bush is never far away—that belies its modernistic skyline and air of prosperity."

—From the National Geographic book Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land, 1999