Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Alaska

Photograph by Michael Melford , National Geographic

The sun sets on northwest Alaska s Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, through which humans passed during the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, according to artifacts found here.

(From the National Geographic book Hidden Alaska by Michael Melford )

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