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Photo by John Stanmeyer/National Geographic1 of 9
National Geographic magazine is celebrating its 125 anniversary in October 2013 with a big photo issue.
Click through to see eight amazing images from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine.
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2010 | Dzitnup, Mexico
A single frame can transport us to one of our planet's far-flung and beautiful places. In this one, stalactites and a sunbeam spotlight a swimmer in the Xkeken cenote, a natural well in the Yucatán thought by the Maya to lead to the underworld. -
Photo by Michael Nichols/National Geographic2 of 91990 | Brazzaville Zoo, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Jou Jou, a captive chimpanzee, reaches out its hand to Dr. Jane Goodall. -
Photo by Ralf Dujmovits/National Geographic3 of 92011 | China
Buffeted by stinging blasts of wind-driven snow, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner checks the ropes the team has spent weeks fixing along the entire route -- 9,000 feet of rope in all. -
Photo by Lynsey Addario/National Geographic4 of 92010 | Afghanistan
Noor Nisa, about 18, was pregnant, and her water had just broken. Her husband was determined to get her to the hospital, but his car broke down, and he went to find another vehicle. The photographer ended up taking Noor Nisa, her mother and her husband to the hospital, where she gave birth to a baby girl. -
Steve McCurry/National Geographic5 of 9
1991 | Kuwait
Under the black clouds of burning oil fields during the Gulf War, camels forage desperately for shrubs and water in southern Kuwait. Front-line photographs of regions ravaged by human strife can also illuminate war's environmental cost.
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Emory Kristof/National Geographic6 of 9
1991 | North Atlantic
Rusted prow of the R.M.S. Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg in April 1912.
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Photo by Hiram Bingham/National Geographic7 of 91913 | Machu Picchu, Peru
An elevated view of about half of Machu Picchu, the lost mountaintop city of the Inca in the Peruvian Andes. National Geographic supported Bingham's excavations at the site from 1912 to 1915. -
Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic8 of 92011 | Uganda
A lion climbs a tree to sleep, in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth Park. -
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