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Picture of river falls flowing around a small island full of pine trees in Canada
September 13, 2021

River Falls

A story in the May 1996 issue chronicled the life of explorer David Thompson, who surveyed roughly 1.5 million square miles of North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His journeys in 1796 took him to the falls of the Fond du Lac River in Saskatchewan.
Photograph by Maria Stenzel, Nat Geo Image Collection

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