The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 104National Geographic Society, 1953 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 475
... Four by nine miles in size and weighing some four billion tons , it is a monstrous fragment of shelf ice torn from the primordial cap which once covered Ellesmere . Two other huge chunks that broke off from the same ice foot have become ...
... Four by nine miles in size and weighing some four billion tons , it is a monstrous fragment of shelf ice torn from the primordial cap which once covered Ellesmere . Two other huge chunks that broke off from the same ice foot have become ...
Page 477
... four hours to make our first landfall in east Greenland , a grim little weather station called appropriately and simply " Nord . " It had an airstrip , we were told , but four feet of snow still covered it when we passed overhead . Nord ...
... four hours to make our first landfall in east Greenland , a grim little weather station called appropriately and simply " Nord . " It had an airstrip , we were told , but four feet of snow still covered it when we passed overhead . Nord ...
Page 601
... four miles down , for example , water crushes with a weight 640 times that of the atmosphere , or four and a half tons to the square inch . Deep - sea life endures such external weight by maintain- ing equal pressure inside body tissues ...
... four miles down , for example , water crushes with a weight 640 times that of the atmosphere , or four and a half tons to the square inch . Deep - sea life endures such external weight by maintain- ing equal pressure inside body tissues ...
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Fact Finding for Tomorrows Planes A Little Faninabox Wind | v |
All America Mingles in the Prairie State | ix |
Rip Van Winkle of the Underground North Americas Much Misunder | xii |
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