The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 74National Geographic Society, 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 80
... feet above the broad green plains of the interior , can be appreciated . The morning of July 12 dawned glori- ously clear except for a few low cloud banks to the southwestward at an altitude of between six and eight thousand feet . We ...
... feet above the broad green plains of the interior , can be appreciated . The morning of July 12 dawned glori- ously clear except for a few low cloud banks to the southwestward at an altitude of between six and eight thousand feet . We ...
Page 97
... feet a minute , on a course bearing exactly toward Mount McKinley , which lay far ahead , completely hidden behind banks of black clouds . Fifteen minutes after the take - off , the scattered overcast above us had rapidly consolidated ...
... feet a minute , on a course bearing exactly toward Mount McKinley , which lay far ahead , completely hidden behind banks of black clouds . Fifteen minutes after the take - off , the scattered overcast above us had rapidly consolidated ...
Page 444
... feet above the sea on the island of Maui ( page 455 ) . This has a circumference of 21 miles , and is more than 1,000 feet deep . Dead lava cones sev- eral hundred feet high on the floor of the crater look , from the rim above , like ...
... feet above the sea on the island of Maui ( page 455 ) . This has a circumference of 21 miles , and is more than 1,000 feet deep . Dead lava cones sev- eral hundred feet high on the floor of the crater look , from the rim above , like ...
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A Motor Caravan Rolls Across Sahara and Jungle Through Realms | 327 |
Wild Tribesmen With Topknots Roam the Little | 391 |
Marine Fishes and Fisheries Yield Vast Wealth from Alaska | 463 |
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