Photo of the Day 147

Beaufort Sea, Yukon Territory, Canada, 1999

Photograph by Michael Melford

Sunset over the Beaufort Sea plunges Canada's Yukon Territory into a crimson haze. More than 313,000 tourists make summer pilgrimages to the territory, one of North America's last great wildernesses. Today tourism booms there, drawing adventurers to the frontier's glaciated peaks, untouched wilderness, and abundant wildflowers and wildlife.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Caribou Dreams," March 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)