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Photo of the Day: Best of May 2009
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This Month in Photo of the Day: Images From National Geographic Books

Penguins surface near an air hole in Antarctica, captured with a remote underwater camera.


From the National Geographic book Visions of Paradise, 2008

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

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