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Dispatches from the Other Side of the World

Â鶹³ÉÈ˾«Æ· Young on sabbatical in Chile's Atacama Desert
Mar 18, 2018

As part of his semester-long sabbatical, geography professor Stephen Young has been traveling around the world. Recently he was in the Atacama Desert in Chile, South America. The Atacama Desert, which straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, is the driest desert in the world, receiving on average 0.6 inches of precipitation a year (compare that to the average of 44 inches per year in Massachusetts). Â鶹³ÉÈ˾«Æ· Young sent along the pictures above.

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