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title: National Geographic girl found
date: "2002-03-16T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1399
description: National Geographic has located Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan refugee from their iconic 1985 cover. Seventeen years later, photographer Steve McCurry used iris recognition and local leads to verify her identity in a remote region of Pakistan.
keywords: [sharbat gula, national geographic, steve mccurry, afghan girl, iris recognition, photojournalism]
---

The green eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic has been [found](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html).