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Waters boil with jellyfish in one of Palau's marine lakes.
April 11, 2009

Jellyfish Swarm, Palau

This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Environment

Waters boil with jellyfish in one of Palau's marine lakes. Surprises hide in each of some 80 such lakes in this Pacific archipelago.


This photograph was taken on assignment for "Strange World of Palau's Salt Lakes" in the February 1982 National Geographic.

Photograph by David Doubilet

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