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Gwynn’s Island
Credit: Ben Fertig, Integration and Application Network (ian.umces.edu/media-library)
Original Author: Ben Fertig, photographer
Created: May 1, 2008
Medium: Digital photograph

Gwynn’s Island

This aerial photograph, taken for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Integration and Application Network, shows Gwynn’s Island, a Mathews County island in the Chesapeake Bay south of the Piankatank River.

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