The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page xi
... chart . exhibiting the position of St. Elias , Icy bay , Yakutat bay , and the adjacent coast as determined ( 1 ) from various surveys com- piled by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey , ( 2 ) by Mark B. Kerr during the first ...
... chart . exhibiting the position of St. Elias , Icy bay , Yakutat bay , and the adjacent coast as determined ( 1 ) from various surveys com- piled by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey , ( 2 ) by Mark B. Kerr during the first ...
Page 44
... chart constructed on a polar projection . In connection with an abstruse subject , to which Buchan has paid so much atten- tion , the diurnal variation of pressure , he opines from the Chal- lenger observations that the oscillations are ...
... chart constructed on a polar projection . In connection with an abstruse subject , to which Buchan has paid so much atten- tion , the diurnal variation of pressure , he opines from the Chal- lenger observations that the oscillations are ...
Page 46
... charts , from observations at a single place , or from prognostics of great length based on researches on the suc- cession of warm and cold months . It also contains Pomortsew's investigations on the types of pressure distribution in ...
... charts , from observations at a single place , or from prognostics of great length based on researches on the suc- cession of warm and cold months . It also contains Pomortsew's investigations on the types of pressure distribution in ...
Page 58
... chart showing the route followed by La Pérouse during this portion of his voyage is reproduced in plate 3. In the splendid atlas accompanying the narrative of his travels , the ex- plorer pictures the quaint , high - pooped vessels in ...
... chart showing the route followed by La Pérouse during this portion of his voyage is reproduced in plate 3. In the splendid atlas accompanying the narrative of his travels , the ex- plorer pictures the quaint , high - pooped vessels in ...
Page 60
... chart corresponds with that now known as Dry bay . On the maps referred to , a stream is represented as emptying into the head of this bay and rising a long distance northward ; this is evidently Alsek river , the existence of which was ...
... chart corresponds with that now known as Dry bay . On the maps referred to , a stream is represented as emptying into the head of this bay and rising a long distance northward ; this is evidently Alsek river , the existence of which was ...
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Agassiz glacier Alaska Amazon appears avalanches base beneath Bering Bering island Bering's Blossom island border camp canoe carts chart Coast and Geodetic crest crevasses débris dense Disenchantment bay eastern elevation Elias range Elias region expedition exploration feet flows formed Geodetic Survey GEOG Geological Survey glacial Haenke island height Hitchcock range ice-streams Icy bay indicated Kamshatka Kerr l'Isle l'Isle's lake land longitude lower Lucia glacier Malaspina glacier margin Marvine glacier melting miles moraines Mount Augusta Mount Cook Mount Owen Mount St NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC National Geographic Society névé night observations peaks Pinnacle system plateau Port Mulgrave portion reached ridge river rocks route rugged Russian sandstone Seward glacier shale shore side slope snow snow-fields southern southward steep stones storm stream Street summit surface tent terrace tion topographic tunnel valley vegetation voyage western westward Yakutat bay Yakutat system