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English: Swimming the Kobuk

Photographer

English: NPS Photo

Title

English: Swimming the Kobuk

Publisher

English: U.S. National Park Service

Description

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several caribou swimming across a river, mountains in the distance

Big hooves for paddles and hollow hair for bouyancy make caribou good swimmers. That's important, because they have to swim across the Kobuk River twice as year as they migrate north in the spring and then south in the fall (as in this photo).

Keywords: united states; migration; river; caribou; baird mountains; mountain; autumn; kobuk river; kova; kobuk valley national park; western arctic national parklands; wear; arctic; northwest alaska; nw alaska; alaska

Depicted place

English: Noatak National Preserve, Alaska

Date

Taken on 26 February 2013

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9384b7f4-1dd8-b71c-075a-d682f5fb8e48

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English: NPGallery

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NOAT

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English: Animals

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Image title	Big hooves for paddles and hollow hair for bouyancy make caribou good swimmers. That's important, because they have to swim across the Kobuk River twice as year as they migrate north in the spring and then south in the fall (as in this photo).
Author	Unknown
Copyright holder	NPS photo
Source	0737_PCD-8236-3101-3250
Headline	Accessibility statement: 12 caribou with velvet on their antlers swim across a river with mountains and green and gold trees in the background.
Short title	Swimming the Kobuk
Date and time of data generation	11 August 2008
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	200 dpi
Vertical resolution	200 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
File change date and time	11:38, 26 February 2013
Color space	Uncalibrated
Image width	2,921 px
Image height	1,972 px
Writer	Linda Jeschke
Copyright status	Copyright status not set
Date and time of digitizing	02:38, 26 February 2013
Date metadata was last modified	02:38, 26 February 2013
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:7E30797FBB78DF11BB4DA83D14B50521
Keywords	Alaska NW Alaska Northwest Alaska Arctic WEAR Western Arctic National Parklands Kobuk Valley National Park KOVA Kobuk River Autumn Mountain Baird Mountains Caribou River Kobuk River Migration
Contact information	Western Arctic National Parklands PO Box 1029 Kotzebue, AK, 99752 907-442-3890
Province or state shown	Alaska
Country shown	United States
Sublocation of city shown	Ranger station near Kallarichuk River, Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska.
IIM version	3

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