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Photograph by George F. Mobley
Ugak Bay sleeps beneath a winter sun. Many of these long inlets deeply cleave the coast: No site on land is more than 15 miles [24 kilometers] from the sea.

—From "Kodiak: Alaska's Island Refuge," November 1993, National Geographic magazine
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