File:Reed Islands of Lake Titicaca.jpg

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Reed Islands of Lake Titicaca

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The people of the Uros islands of Lake Titicaca make their homes on large clumps of floating reeds. The eat reeds, they make their homes from reeds, and they build very seaworthy boats from bundles of reeds.
Thor Heyerdahl tried to prove that the reed boats of Lake Titicaca were derived from the papyrus boats of Egypt.
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Author Thomas Quine

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by quinet at https://www.flickr.com/photos/91994044@N00/88774381. It was reviewed on 31 May 2009 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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