The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 49
... summit of Mount Washington , at an elevation of 6,300 feet , he obtained simultaneously and under the same conditions , by automatic and electrical apparatus , continuous registration of the pressure of the wind in pounds per square ...
... summit of Mount Washington , at an elevation of 6,300 feet , he obtained simultaneously and under the same conditions , by automatic and electrical apparatus , continuous registration of the pressure of the wind in pounds per square ...
Page 54
... Summit of Pinnacle Pass Cliffs Across Seward Glacier to Dome Pass Up the Agassiz Glacier ...... . 135 137 142 147 Camp on the Newton Glacier ----- 150 Highest Point reached ----- 151 Alone in the highest Camp -- 154 The Return . 158 ...
... Summit of Pinnacle Pass Cliffs Across Seward Glacier to Dome Pass Up the Agassiz Glacier ...... . 135 137 142 147 Camp on the Newton Glacier ----- 150 Highest Point reached ----- 151 Alone in the highest Camp -- 154 The Return . 158 ...
Page 58
... summit northeast of Kyak island was named “ Mount St. Elias , " after the patron saint of the day . Cook , 1778 . The next explorer to visit this portion of Alaska was Captain James Cook , who sailed past the entrance of Yakutat bay on ...
... summit northeast of Kyak island was named “ Mount St. Elias , " after the patron saint of the day . Cook , 1778 . The next explorer to visit this portion of Alaska was Captain James Cook , who sailed past the entrance of Yakutat bay on ...
Page 59
... summit of which appeared above the clouds . " The first view of the land is described as not awakening the feelings of joy which usually accompany the first view of an unknown shore after a long voyage . To quote the navigator's own ...
... summit of which appeared above the clouds . " The first view of the land is described as not awakening the feelings of joy which usually accompany the first view of an unknown shore after a long voyage . To quote the navigator's own ...
Page 71
... summit of the plateau gradually in a sort of semicircular sweep toward the beach , near which , however , the dirt and débris again predom- inate , forming a sort of terminal moraine to this immense , buried , immov- able glacier , for ...
... summit of the plateau gradually in a sort of semicircular sweep toward the beach , near which , however , the dirt and débris again predom- inate , forming a sort of terminal moraine to this immense , buried , immov- able glacier , for ...
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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