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14-SEP-2004

CRW_6526.jpg

Hill Inlet. This is the highest cocentration of pure quartz sand in the world ( purity 99.97%). They took 2000kg from this site to fuse the optical glass for the Hubble Space Telesope.

Canon EOS 10D
1/250s f/6.3 at 17.0mm iso100 full exif

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