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Whale skull in a tidal creek
March 31, 2010

Sei Whale Skull, Chile

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Inland ice fields give way along Chile's coast to a maze of islands and fjords. The weather here is rarely calm. On Byron Island, the skull of a sei whale rests in a tidal creek—until the next storm.


See more photographs from the February 2010 feature story "Patagonia’s Peril."
Photograph by Maria Stenzel

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