The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 84National Geographic Society, 1943 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... island of the Solomon group and named it Santa Isabel , after the patron saint of the voyage . thought it was a continent , so mountainous and seemingly limitless it was . He Among the earliest of the important Pacific groups to be ...
... island of the Solomon group and named it Santa Isabel , after the patron saint of the voyage . thought it was a continent , so mountainous and seemingly limitless it was . He Among the earliest of the important Pacific groups to be ...
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... island of Timor for a survey of its oil resources , I knew virtually nothing about this little - heard- of member of the Lesser Sunda group . The few writings I found on the subject did not increase my enthusiasm for the journey . They ...
... island of Timor for a survey of its oil resources , I knew virtually nothing about this little - heard- of member of the Lesser Sunda group . The few writings I found on the subject did not increase my enthusiasm for the journey . They ...
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... island divide . Part of the time we were above the clouds and thus escaped the rain . We skirted precipices hundreds of feet deep and looked al- most straight down into the deep - cut canyons . The Top of the Island Our campsite was ...
... island divide . Part of the time we were above the clouds and thus escaped the rain . We skirted precipices hundreds of feet deep and looked al- most straight down into the deep - cut canyons . The Top of the Island Our campsite was ...
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