Walrus Skull, Bristol Bay

Photograph by Michael Melford , National Geographic

A walrus skull sits alone in a field of wildflowers. Each spring thousands of walruses return to the Walrus Islands in northern Bristol Bay to feed, rest, and sometimes die.

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

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