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- NASA Photo ID: STS068-261-062 File Name: 20171337.jpg
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- Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 10/11/94
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- Title: Vals Cape, New Guinea
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- Description:
- Vals Cape (left) is the prominent point of the island of New Guinea
- (Indonesia's Irian Jaya) that juts southwest into the Arafura Sea, pointing
- towards Australia. This part of New Guinea in this northwest-looking view
- is entirely low-lying swampland with very low population density. The Digul
- River, snaking across the middle of the view, drains the high mountain
- chain which runs along the the spine of the island.
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