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Photo: Sabah, Malaysia
Photo: Housing in the Celebes Sea
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Photograph by Stuart Franklin
Spindly legs keep makeshift houses—and the day's harvest of seaweed—high, dry, and clear of the rising tide off the coast of Semporna in eastern Sabah. Many Filipinos and Malays who traditionally fish for a living have erected hundreds of these homes in the Celebes Sea. From them they run their cottage industry, growing seaweed on monofilament lines strung over shallow coral reefs and selling it for use in canned pet food.

—From "Malaysia: Rising Star," August 1997, National Geographic magazine
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