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HOW did a CANADIAN TRACING THE NILE

end up on a quest to SOLVE ONE OF 63 This August will mark the 160th anniversary
of John Hanning Speke’s claim to have found
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S GREAT the source of the world’s longest river, an assertion
MYSTERIES? that created one of the great myths and legacies of
Victorian-era exploration.
Archeologist Dougald O’Reilly leads the effort to answer By Sir Christopher Ondaatje
questions about Laos’s puzzling Plain of Jars
By Bonnie Munday
66 PHOTO FINISH
34 ‘THEY’RE OUT THERE’ Presenting the winners of Canadian Geographic’s

32nd Annual Photo Competition
COVER: NICOLAS DORY. THIS PAGE: COURTESY AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
After decades of confl ict between humans and
wolves, the Yukon is fi nding its balance with the
top predator, which is thriving across the territory
By Eva Holland
with photography by Peter Mather

ON THE COVER
MAMMOTH MOVE A Yukon wolf stares down the
54 The Royal Alberta Museum will move into barrel of a camera. The species
has lived across this part of
its new downtown Edmonton home this
the North for as long as 47,000
year, a massive logistical task captured
years, today numbering
in this behind-the-scenes photo essay around 5,000 in the territory.
Photography by Amber Bracken
with text by Harry Wilson

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