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PingokIslandAK.jpg

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Photo from an airplane looking down at a very flat, low island surrounded by ocean.
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Photograph of Pingok Island, Alaska, reveals physical features of a changing Arctic: collapsing bluffs, salt-killed tundra (lighter brown near the bluff edge), and drained thermokarst lakes (rust-colored depressions).

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