<p><strong>The sun is blotted from the sky over Queensland, <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/australia-guide/">Australia</a>, during totality—when the moon completely obscures the <a href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/sun-article/">sun</a> during a <a href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/solar-eclipse-article/">solar eclipse</a>—just after dawn on Wednesday, local time. This week's eclipse was one of the 21st century's most remote, visible only to a lucky few across the southern Pacific Ocean and Australia. </strong></p><p>"The best place on land to see totality [was] along 62 miles [100 kilometers] of coastline on northeast Australia, overlooking the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea," <a href="http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/people/jpasachoff/">Jay Pasachoff</a>, an astronomer at Williams College in Massachusetts, told <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121112-total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch-live-video-feed-space-science/">National Geographic News</a>. Anyone else would have had to have been on a ship.</p><p>(See <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/photogalleries/100115-eclipse-ring-fire-annular-pictures/">"ring of fire" eclipse pictures</a>.)</p><p><em>—Brian Handwerk</em></p>