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Aerial View of the Kalahari

Aerial View of the Kalahari
The flat scrublands of the vast Kalahari Basin stretch for miles behind a small village on the northern fringes of the desert. The sandy, arid region receives only about 200 mm (8 in) of precipitation annually.
Peter Johnson/Corbis
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