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This is a picture of some punters on the river Cam, on one of those cold, ugly, black-and-white days in Cambridge. The point of view is probably one of the most popular in the town: the bridge behind King's College.

A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. Punting refers to boating in a punt. The punter generally propels the punt by pushing against the river bed with a pole.

Punts were originally built as cargo boats or platforms for fowling and angling but in modern times their use is almost exclusively confined to pleasure trips on the rivers in the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge in England and races at a few summer regattas on the Thames.

Source: Wikipedia