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Page 188
... nearly a month in surveys and collecting data on one of the most impor- tant and least - known areas of Antarctica ... nearly 15,000 feet above the bar- rier . This and adjacent mountains might show whether the barrier basin had been ...
... nearly a month in surveys and collecting data on one of the most impor- tant and least - known areas of Antarctica ... nearly 15,000 feet above the bar- rier . This and adjacent mountains might show whether the barrier basin had been ...
Page 374
... nearly a mile from shore . The passengers , including three ladies , had to wade up to their armpits through swirling water to the island beach . Masthead is a favorite resort of these huge chelonians . We counted nearly 300 one morning ...
... nearly a mile from shore . The passengers , including three ladies , had to wade up to their armpits through swirling water to the island beach . Masthead is a favorite resort of these huge chelonians . We counted nearly 300 one morning ...
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... nearly cost us our lives , because we ran afoul a capricious Faeroe wind . I had read of this wind in the lee of precipitous islands that acts like an angry waterspout , or like the worst eddies around the corners of giant skyscrapers ...
... nearly cost us our lives , because we ran afoul a capricious Faeroe wind . I had read of this wind in the lee of precipitous islands that acts like an angry waterspout , or like the worst eddies around the corners of giant skyscrapers ...
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