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WEB DESK: How do you curate the feed of raw nature, worldly wonder, and global adventure that 64 million people follow on the National Geographic Instagram account? You don't. All you do is share the password with a hundred of their favorite photographers and encourage them to post often (but not too often)—and somehow, it works.

Here are 12 most-liked Instagram images from 2016. All received over a million likes, crowdsourcing their way to the top.

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