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A small community seen from the air is located in the fringes of an estuary along the Lynn Canal part of the Inside Passage. The intertidal or littoral zone in Alaska's Southeast maintains a balance between the land and the sea. The habitat of fresh and salt water is harsh and critical for marine life and birds.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
- Keywords
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aerial views, alaska, bays, bays and inlets, berners bay, canals, clouds, color image, day, ecosystems, estuaries, fog, geography, gulf of alaska, habitats, habitats and ecosystems, inlets, inside passage, inside passage (alaska), juneau, lynn canal, mountains, national forests (alaska), natural forces and phenomena, nobody, north america, outdoors, pacific ocean, photography, shorelines, tongass national forest, united states, weather
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
