国家地理2004一月篇

January 13, 2004
　　
　　In orbit of Earth‘s moon
　　1972
　　Unknown (NASA)
　　
　　Apollo 17 astronauts, in orbit around the moon, photographed a crescent Earth rising in the lunar sky.
　　
　　—From the National Geographic book Through the Lens: National Geographic‘s Greatest Photographs, 2003

January 14, 2004
　　South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
　　1998
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Leopard seals‘ unusually long foreflippers, slender bodies, and large powerful jaws help make them perhaps the top Antarctic predator.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Shackleton: Epic of Survival, November 1998, National Geographic magazine)

January 15, 2004
　　Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand
　　1997
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Sheep farming, though on the decline across New Zealand, still has a stronghold along the Kaikoura Peninsula‘s majestic coastline.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon, June 1998, National Geographic

January 16, 2004
　　
　　South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
　　1998
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Juvenile king penguins preen on the shore. They‘ll stay with their parents for just over a year, and then they will fatten, molt, and leave the colony.

January 17, 2004
　　Bovanenkovo, Siberia, Russia
　　1996
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　The Yamal Peninsula holds what may be the largest natural gas reserves in the world—about 300 trillion cubic feet [8.5 million cubic meters]. (United States reserves are estimated at just over half that.) Working out of Bovanenkovo and other settlements, more than a thousand shift workers are laying the groundwork of a new industry: the towering derricks of exploratory wells, clusters of prefabricated buildings, roads crisscrossing the snowy landscape, and a railroad.
　　Large-scale production is expected to begin early in [the 21st] century, and some Nenets [people] worry that they‘ll be left with a despoiled tundra, shrunken grazing lands, and a minimal share of the huge profits expected from gas production.
　　
　　(Text from Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra, March 1998, National Geographic magazine)
　　

January 18, 2004
　　Shoalwater Bay, Washington State
　　Early 1900s
　　Edward S. Curtis
　　
　　A Chinook Indian woman holds a clam basket. The Chinook prospered from the riches of the Pacific Northwest‘s waters and forests until a malaria epidemic devastated them in 1825. Today the handful of Chinook survivors live on the Quinault Reservation in Washington State.
　　
　　—Text adapted from the National Geographic book Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery, 1998

January 19, 2004
　　Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
　　1998
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Shouldering his burden, Lakei Padeng gathers poles to build a shelter deep in Gunung Mulu National Park, a protected swath of rain forest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Of the some 7,000 people of the Penan tribe, Lakei Padeng is one of 300 or fewer who still live in the rain forest. As for the rest, three decades of government-sanctioned logging has nearly destroyed their homeland, forcing them to live in dreary resettlement camps—an even heavier burden to bear.
　　
　　—From Vanishing Cultures, August 1999, National Geographic magazine

January 20, 2004
　　Off Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand
　　1997
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　A whale‘s vanishing tail is a reminder of the Kaikoura Peninsula‘s past life as a whaling center. Just off the coast, the continental shelf plunges, forming an underwater canyon. Upwelling nutrients from the canyon form the base of an offshore food chain—with whales at the top.

January 21, 2004
　　Australia
　　1989
　　Sam Abell
　　
　　Song and dance of the original Australians—called a corroboree—invoke the ancient Dreamtime in the Aboriginal community of Kalumburu.
　　
　　—From the National Geographic book Wild Shores of Australia, 1996

January 22, 2004
　　Hudson Bay, Canada
　　1996
　　Flip Nicklin
　　
　　Alert but probably unperturbed, a polar bear stares down the camera. Thousands of ecotourists come to the Hudson Bay area to glimpse the bears, and the bears in turn have habituated to the human presence.
　　
　　(Text adapted from Polar Bears, Stalkers of the High Arctic, January 1998, National Geographic magazine)
　　

January 23, 2004
　　030 Unknown location, United States
　　1992
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Getting hands on a queen bee is mail-order easy. Bee breeders send them in a cage to beekeepers, who place the captive in a queenless hive. During the two days it takes the hive‘s residents to eat through the cage‘s candy plug, they grow accustomed to the scent of their new leader. Upon liberation, the queen begins laying eggs in the hive‘s hexagonal cells. Three weeks later, worker bees emerge.

January 24, 2004
　　Adirondack State Park, New York
　　1996
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　The aesthetic pleasures of the High Peaks and other Adirondack wilderness may offer to the modern mind a compelling case for preservation. But in the late 1800s, when ‘green‘ was just a color, advocates for a park stressed utilitarian concerns: One day the region‘s resources might be needed.
　　
　　—From Adirondack High, June 1998, National Geographic magazine