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2,200-year-old terra-cotta soldiers
Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park
New Year's fireworks, Sydney Harbour
Great Barrier Reef
Carnival costumes in Venice
Sharks and yellowtail snappers
Fortress, Tarut Island, Saudi Arabia
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Australia's Great Barrier Reefactually a group of more than 2,800 reefssupports a diversity of species rivaled only by that of tropical rain forests.

Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs is a collection of 250 of the Society's most remarkable photographs.

Learn how these photos were selected from an archive of over ten million in a Q&A with Senior Book Editor Leah Bendavid-Val.
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