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Tuesday, 28th November 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Just in case you missed this when it did the rounds in October, here’s some hills in Canada which seem to resemble… well, I’d be hard pushed not to admit that this does look an awful lot like a Native American, listening to an iPod. Thanks to all our submitters, and especially the original finder – supergranny.
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