
The Milky Way Over Monument Valley

by Surjanto Suradji
Title
The Milky Way Over Monument Valley
Artist
Surjanto Suradji
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
THE MILKY WAY OVER MONUMENT VALLEY – perhaps the most famous cluster at the Park – Merrick, West Mitten, and East Mitten Buttes. Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning: valley of the rocks - is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona–Utah border, near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163. Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known films and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."
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January 19th, 2019
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